VMF Capital Information

VMF Capital, LLC, is a registered investment advisor providing portfolio management services to individual investors, retirement plans, corporations, foundations and endowments. We specialize in domestic equity and fixed income strategies and have the ability to customize our strategies to meet specific investment objectives. Our mission is threefold: to manage our clients' investments in such a way that they target returns comparable to the market in general, but at lower risk; to provide outstanding customer service; and to develop lasting relationships with clients based on understanding, respect and trust. We believe that these relationships, built over the course of entire business cycles, have the power to last. Our investment team manages over $500 million in assets and represents 150 years of combined experience. Many of our original clients who joined us during the 1980s are still with us today, evidence of the quality of our performance and client service. The relationships among the partners of VMF Capital go back a long way, too. In 1983, Mike Van Meter and Jim Fine formed Perpetual Investment Advisors. They had $22 million under management in 1989, when Don Flynn negotiated the buyout of Perpetual on behalf of AEGON. Within a year, Tom Myers joined the asset management team. Karen Green came on board in 1994 to manage the office operations and client services. In July of 1998, the equity investment team, headed by Don, Mike, Tom, Jim and Karen, became an independently - owned investment advisor - VMF Capital, LLC. In the spring of 1999, VMF added breadth and depth when it integrated the members of an established investment team as partners. The new partners, Jon Augustine, Chris Cook, Scott Eltjes and Don Mears, had comprised Norwest Investment Advisors, Inc., of Des Moines, Iowa. Past professional relationships played a key role in this new chapter of VMF's development, as Jon and Don had been colleagues of other VMF partners before teaming up at Norwest. Beyond knowing, trusting and respecting each other, the partners chose to work together for a good reason. They share the same investment philosophy and the same dedication to providing superior investment returns at lower than market risk. Because we know the business, our clients and each other so well, VMF Capital runs smoothly and expeditiously. We're proud of that.