Northfield, IL 2Q 2025 — Bernardi Asset Management’s (BAM) Intermediate Taxable and Short Taxable strategies achieved “Top Guns” status within Zephyr’s PSN manager database 1-Year category. This means that BAM taxable strategies were among the top ten performers within one or more peer groups reporting to PSN. This follows up BAM’s taxable strategies recent “Top Guns” achievement for 1Q2025.

The strategies focus on high-grade taxable bonds, with a concentration in municipal securities. Taxable municipals generally offer attractive yield spreads versus Treasuries and CDs, with typically higher credit quality than comparable corporate bonds.

PSN Top Guns performance rankings are tabulated for thousands of strategies across 75 peer groups subdivided by increasingly rigorous screens and reported in various ascending classes.

 

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About PSN

For nearly four decades, PSN has been a top resource for investment professionals. Asset managers rely on Zephyr’s PSN to effectively reach institutional and retail investors. Over 2,800 firms, 285 universes, and more than 21,000 products comprise the PSN SMA database showing asset breakdowns, compliance, key personnel, ownership diversity, ESG, business objectives and strategy, style, fees, GIC sectors, fixed income ranges and full holdings. Unique to PSN is its robust historical database of nearly 40 years of data including net and gross-of-fee returns.

About Bernardi

For over forty years, Bernardi has specialized in municipal bond portfolio management. The firm provides unique access to separate account management through a hybrid-advisor, offering both active and passive municipal bond strategies.

Contact us at (312) 281-2021 or [email protected] for more information.

TradePMR’s Custodial Platform for RIAs enables SMA Strategies

 

Bernardi Asset Management (BAM) – a wholly owned subsidiary of Bernardi Securities – is pleased to announce the availability of its separate account municipal bond and high-grade fixed income strategies on TradePMR’s Fusion custodial platform.

Both firms have more than 20 years of experience building customized solutions for RIA clients and have recently received accolades from third-party sources:

• BAM was awarded Manager of the Decade by PSN Informa within their US Fixed Income Universe (February 2024).
• TradePMR’s Fusion received the highest advisor satisfaction rating among custodial platforms on the 2024 T3/Inside Information Survey.¹

The partnership is an effort by both firms to expand their white-glove fixed income solutions and broaden access to separately managed accounts.

“The Bernardi team is excited to work with TradePMR and be a sub-manager on the Fusion platform. Fusion offers a flexible and easy to use platform for advisors, with high level customer service from the TradePMR team. We look forward to working with advisors on TradePMR and helping them with their municipal and high-grade taxable fixed income management needs,” said Tom Bernardi, CFA, Director of Portfolio Management at Bernardi Asset Management.

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For more information about Bernardi Asset Management and TradePMR please visit us here:

Bernardi – Muni SMAs 

Fusion: TradePMR’s top-rated custodial platform for RIAs 

Providing state of the art technology and custodial services exclusively to RIAs

 

 

1. T3/Inside Information Survey, Technology and Tools for Today, January 25, 2024

 

Disclaimer: Bernardi Asset Management, LLC (“BAM”) is a registered investment adviser with United States Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. This text is a current opinion and is subject to change at any time. This information is taken from sources we believe to be reliable, but we cannot guarantee. Nothing in this document represents a recommendation of any particular strategy, security or investment product. This information is distributed for educational purposes only. Bernardi Securities Inc. and its affiliates do not accept liability for any errors, omissions or viruses in the contents of this message.

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Northfield, IL 1Q 2023 — Bernardi Asset Management’s (BAM) High Income (Five Star category) and Intermediate Taxable (One Star category) strategies achieved “Top Guns” status within Zephyr’s PSN manager database.

PSN Top Guns performance rankings are tabulated for thousands of strategies across 75 peer groups subdivided by increasingly rigorous screens and reported in ascending classes from 1-6 stars.

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About PSN

For nearly four decades, PSN has been a top resource for investment professionals. Asset managers rely on Zephyr’s PSN to effectively reach institutional and retail investors. Over 2,800 firms, 285 universes, and more than 21,000 products comprise the PSN SMA database showing asset breakdowns, compliance, key personnel, ownership diversity, ESG, business objectives and strategy, style, fees, GIC sectors, fixed income ranges and full holdings. Unique to PSN is its robust historical database of nearly 40 years of data including net and gross-of-fee returns.

About Bernardi

For over thirty-eight years, Bernardi has specialized in municipal bond portfolio management. The firm provides unique access to separate account management through a hybrid-advisor, offering both active and passive municipal bond strategies.

Contact us at (312) 281-2021 or [email protected] for more information.

Northfield, IL November 2021 — Bernardi Asset Management (BAM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bernardi Securities, Inc. (BSI) has been awarded a PSN Top Guns distinction by Informa Financial Intelligence’s PSN manager database, North America’s longest running database of investment managers. This award was for BAM’s Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy. This is the second Top Gun designation awarded to BAM’s Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy since being part of PSN’s manager database.

Top Gun firms are awarded a rating ranging from one to six stars, with the number of stars representing continued performance over time. BAM’s Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy was named a Top Gun with a star rating of 1, meaning products with this rating performed among the top ten within their respective universes, based on quarterly returns. This is a well-respected quarterly ranking and is widely used by institutional asset managers and investors.

The Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy is an actively managed strategy appropriate for investors seeking current taxable income and capital preservation. The strategy targets a higher allocation to taxable municipal securities for enhanced portfolio yield, while maintain strong credit quality. The goal of the strategy is to produce superior risk adjusted returns relative to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government/Credit Intermediate Index.

“The Bernardi team is proud to have the Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy recognized as Top Guns and leaders among our peers. This reinforces our belief that municipals are an essential part of our clients’ asset allocation and act as the ballast of their portfolios, especially during these times of heightened market volatility and economic uncertainty” said Tom Bernardi, CFA, CIPM and Director of Portfolio Management.

 

For over thirty-five years, Bernardi has specialized in municipal bond portfolio management. The firm provides unique access to separate account management through a hybrid-advisor, offering both active and passive municipal bond strategies.

Visit us at: Bernardisecurities.com

 Contact us at (312) 281-2021 or [email protected] for more information

 

The complete list of PSN Top Guns and an overview of the methodology can be located on https://psn.fi.informais.com/. For more details on the methodology behind the PSN Top Guns Rankings or to purchase PSN Top Guns Reports, contact Margaret Tobiasen at [email protected].