Meeder Financial

We are pleased to provide the following information on Meeder Financial, one of our sub-advisors:

Overview:

Meeder Financial was established in 1974 as an investment management firm that worked with individual investors and small retirement plans. Today, Meeder Financial has grown to provide investment services to over 28,000 shareholders, retirement plan participants, and investors.

Meeder's investment disciplines were designed with retirement investors in mind, and have prevailed through many market cycles. Our founding discipline, Defensive Investing, is designed to help investors manage the risks of investing in the stock and bond markets by responding to changes in the financial markets seeking to minimize bear market loss in an investor's portfolio.