J. & W. Seligman & Co. Incorporated is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement plans, including 401(k) plan, rollover IRA, and IRA. It primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. The firm also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, public funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. It manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds, including closed- end funds, and variable annuities. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and real estate markets across the globe. The firm invests in value stocks of large-cap companies with market capitalizations typically above $4.0 billion and small-cap companies with market capitalizations typically below $3.0 billion. It also invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies with market capitalizations typically above $10 billion, mid-cap companies with market capitalizations typically between $1.0 and $15 billion, and small-cap to mid-cap companies with market capitalizations between $100 million and $4.0 billion. The firm delves into a quantitative and a qualitative research to create its large-cap and mid-cap growth portfolios. It benchmarks the performance of equity portfolios against the Russell indices. For the firm’s fixed income securities, the firm invests in corporate bonds, U.S. government securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, other government agency securities, government agency, mortgage-backed securities, foreign government and agency securities, U.S. treasury notes and bonds, revenue bonds, pre-refunded/escrowed-to-maturity bonds, and general obligation bonds. The firm employs a top-down approach to make its fixed income investments. It benchmarks the performance of the firm’s intermediate fixed income portfolio against the Lehman Intermediate Government/Credit Index, its core fixed income portfolio against the Lehman Bros. Government/Corporate Index, and its high-yield fixed income portfolios against the Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index. The firm uses a fundamental research with a bottom-up approach to create its portfolios. J. & W. Seligman & Co. was founded in 1864 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Palo Alto, California.