We Invest In Our Team,
So Our Team Can Invest In You

We Invest In Our Team, So Our Team Can Invest In You

A Broad, Fundation for Investment Returns

We operate with a singular purpose

We Help Clients Navigate Their Financial Futures

We’re performance driven and risk aware. Our emphasis on long-term thinking and results has served us well across multiple market cycles.

We are committed to complying with both the letter and the spirit of laws and regulations. We strive to exemplify the highest ethical standards. Professionalism has always been our North Star.

As an independent asset management firm, we are proud of our reputation for integrity, hard work, and the quality of our investment research, asset management services and results.

We believe most people understand the importance of investing but aren’t confident navigating the markets. They follow trends or allocate funds to concentrated investment styles: Equity or fixed income, small- or large-cap, growth or value, international or domestic stocks.

We focus on the center of the market, investing in a limited number of companies from a broad cross-section of capitalizations, styles, and geographies. We look for growing revenues, book values, cash flow, solid earnings, and strong management teams that can deliver compounded returns for patient investors.

For over 35 years, our center-of-the-market strategies have helped soothe clients’ concerns about investing

Who we are

Removing Emotion From Decision Making

Opportunity Identification

We use a top-down, bottom-up approach to identify investment opportunities. This allows us to filter investments from broad-based macroeconomic views down to asset price levels.

Rigorous Analysis

Once an opportunity has been identified, we rigorously analyze the investment across three variables: valuation, fundamentals, and the geopolitical environment. Our goal is to identify buy factors and warning signals. Post-investment, our rigorous analysis continues.

Nimble Execution

Our portfolio managers are empowered to make buy and sell decisions, eliminating the need for multiple levels of approval. This efficient approach to decision-making translates into nimble execution.

Our Team

David Dillard Basten

President & CIO

David Mason Basten

Managing Director

Brentz East

Portfolio Manager

Barry D. Weiss, CFA

Portfolio Manager

John Tener, CFA

Portfolio Manager

Austin Basten, JD

Chief Compliance Officer

Dennis Stratton, CPA

Controller

Charles Foster, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Bonnie Harris

Operations Manager

Sub-Advisors

Michael J. Borgen

Sub-Advisor

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Annual Operating Expenses

Per the most recent prospectus, (1) Fund total operating expense ratios are: Class A, 2.18%; Class L, 2.93%; Institutional Class, 1.82% and (2) Fund net annual operating expense ratios are: Class A, 1.69%, Class L, 2.44%, Institutional Class, 1.44%. The net annual expense ratio takes into account contractual management fee waivers that are in effect until May 31, 2025.

Annual Operating Expenses

As of the May 31, 2024 prospectus, Fund total operating expense ratios are: Class A, 1.39%; Class L, 2.39%; Institutional Class, 1.39%. In the interest of limiting expenses of the Fund, the Adviser has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Trust, effective May 31, 2024, so that the Fund’s ratio of total annual operating expenses is limited to 0.99% for Class A Shares, 1.99% for Class L Shares, and 0.99% for Institutional Class Shares until at least May 31, 2025.

Annual Operating Expenses

Per the most recent prospectus, Fund total operating expense ratios are: Class A, 2.68%; Class L, 3.43%; Institutional Class, 2.43%. The Fund does not use fee waivers at this time.

Annual Operating Expenses

Per the most current prospectus, (1) Fund total operating expense ratios are: Class A, 0.96%; Class L, 1.61%; Institutional Class, 0.96% until at least May 31, 2025. (2) In addition, the Adviser has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Trust so that the Fund’s ratio of total annual operating expenses are limited to 0.79% for Class A shares and Institutional Class shares and 1.44% for Class L Shares until at least May 31, 2025.