FIS Group is a registered investment adviser with the Securities
and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of
1940. Fiduciary Investment Solutions, Inc. and FIS Funds Management,
Inc. are wholly-owned subsidiaries of FIS Group, Inc.
FIS Group believes that respecting and protecting your privacy
is of the utmost importance, so although we are exempt from
Regulation S-P as an institutional investment advisor, we have
implemented the following Privacy Principles to affirm our continuing
commitment to the proper use of client information.
1. We do not share non-public, information about our clients
with outside companies or persons, unless it is for one of the
following reasons: at the client’s direction; to provide
a client with a service; or as otherwise permitted or required
by law.
2. We may collect non-public information about you from the
following:
a. Proposals, presentations, contracts, periodic reports and
other documents containing your name, address, telephone number,
tax identification number and e-mail address;
b. Information is retained on individuals who are institutional
representatives of our clients, such as administrators, trustees,
decision makers and staff advisors, as well as third party pension
consultant contact information. None of this information is
personal financial information; rather, it is routine client
relationship information.
3. Individual participants in, or beneficiaries of, our clients’
pension funds are not shared with outside companies or persons.
4. We may disclose our client list to the public, including
the type of services FIS Group renders, length of the client
relationship and the assets under management, for marketing
purposes only, unless such disclosure is prohibited by a client.
5. Except as otherwise provided herein, information relating
to a financial service that is specific to an institutional
client is available only to that client and its designees.
6. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
to protect non-public
information we obtain about our clients.
7. Non-public information of former clients is protected to
the same extent as that of our current clients.
8. We require that all employees adhere to our Privacy Principles.