Five Star award winner Scott L. Miller, CFA

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Scott L. Miller, CFA

Principal

Miller Global Investments

5949 Sherry Ln Ste 1050

Dallas, TX 75225

Office: 214-272-8504

smiller@millerglobalinvestments.com
www.millerglobalinvestments.com

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Miller Global Investments, L.L.C. is an independent, registered investment advisory firm* located in Dallas, Texas. We specialize in investment management for private investors such as individuals, families, trusts, partnerships, and private companies.

We also provide financial planning and advise our clients on a variety of financial matters.

Our mission is to preserve and grow the wealth of our investors over the long-term by offering thoughtful investment strategies along with superior personalized service.

Miller Global Investments, L.L.C. employs a disciplined approach utilizing both macro-economic and bottom-up investment analysis for a diversified investment portfolio. Our long-term holding period lowers transaction costs and maintains tax efficiency.

We are highly focused on managing for risks along with returns.

We customize each portfolio to meet our investor’s objectives and risk tolerance. This process includes utilizing macro and client specific factors in determining the asset allocation among our five investment strategies while maintaining a strong emphasis on minimizing downside volatility. We can construct portfolios for growth, income, or a balanced combination by the allocation to our investment strategies.

Our six investment strategies:

1. Cash -- Treasurys, money market funds, and ultra short term corporates; actively manage for returns.
2. Fixed Income -- taxable and tax-exempt bonds including government, corporate, agency, municipal, and mortgage-backed securities; we focus on credit quality and duration to manage risk.
3. Equity Income-U.S. -- U.S. stocks that pay high dividend yields including real estate investment trusts, business development companies, preferred, utility, infrastructure, and other high dividend paying common stocks; we focus on the financial and operational characteristics, sustainability of the dividend, and valuation.
4. Equity Growth-U.S. -- stocks of growing U.S. companies; we focus on the financial and operational characteristics and valuation.
5. Equity International -- stocks of growing international companies in both the developed and emerging markets; we focus on the financial and operational characteristics and valuation.
6. Alternative -- absolute return oriented and commodity investments that have shown low historical correlation to stocks or bonds.

*Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training.

Scott L. Miller, CFA is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager. He has almost 40 years of investment experience in equities and fixed income both in the United States and international markets. Scott is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

His previous experience includes serving as a Founder, Partner, and Portfolio Manager of Fisher Capital Management which later became FCM Investments and a Portfolio Manager at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company.

He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University and earned his Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

He is an Eagle Scout. He has received numerous leadership awards. He is a past president of the CFA Society of Dallas/Ft. Worth and the Wharton Alumni Club of Dallas/Ft. Worth. He is a member of the CFA Institute, CFA Society of Dallas/Ft. Worth, Council on Foreign Relations, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations, The Dallas Assembly, the John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs at SMU, and the World Affairs Council. He is actively involved in Special Olympics and other community affairs.

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This award was issued on 7/1/24 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 10/10/23 through 4/30/24. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 4255 Dallas/Fort Worth-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 342 (8 % of candidates) were named 2024 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # Considered, # Winners, % of candidates, Issued Date, Research Period. 2023: 4,274, 336, 7.9%, 7/1/23, 10/10/22 - 5/5/23; 2022: 4039, 330, 8%, 7/1/22, 9/20/21 - 4/8/22; 2021: 4007, 323, 8%, 7/1/21, 9/21/20 - 4/30/21; 2020: 4374, 335, 8%, 7/1/20, 10/7/19 - 4/24/20; 2019: 3899, 393, 10%, 7/1/19, 10/22/18 - 5/3/19; 2018: 3851, 338, 9%, 7/1/18, 10/24/17 - 5/21/18; 2017: 2730, 382, 14%, 7/1/17, 9/26/16 - 4/28/17; 2016: 2471, 678, 27%, 6/1/16, 11/30/15 - 5/18/16; 2015: 2862, 684, 24%, 7/1/15, 11/30/14 - 5/18/15; 2014: 5080, 621, 12%, 7/1/14, 11/30/13 - 5/18/14; 2013: 3834, 698, 18%, 7/1/13, 11/30/12 - 5/18/13; 2012: 2688, 654, 24%, 7/1/12, 11/30/11 - 5/18/12.

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