Ronald Edgar Desautels

Barings LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1940, the firm is direct subsidiary of MM Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual). MassMutual?s affiliated companies include financial services companies that provide investment management services and individual protection insurance to clients worldwide. Barings provides a broad range of investment advisory and management services to institutional clients, registered investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

The Travelers Insurance Co. used to offer individual annuities, individual life insurance, institutional protection and asset accumulation products. The company's principal individual products included traditional life, universal and variable life insurance, fixed and variable annuities, as well as income annuities. The company's two reportable business segments were Travelers Life & Annuity and Primerica. Travelers Life & Annuity was licensed to sell and market its individual products in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Bahamas, US and British Virgin Islands. The company was headquartered in Hartford, CT