Playing the Long(er Duration) Game

March 2026

PNC Capital Advisors Short Duration 1-3 Year Strategy Awarded PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade for a Third Consecutive Year

PNC Capital Advisors was awarded PSN's Manager of the Decade for its Short Duration 1-3 Year Strategy. The award is based on the 10-year period ending December 31, 2025.

While institutional investors view liquidity through a variety of business and investment lenses, there is a core emphasis on capital preservation and stability. Our goal is to optimize portfolios to balance their unique needs and objectives with appropriate return and volatility expectations.

The Federal Reserve (Fed) embarked on its policy-easing campaign in the third quarter of 2024. The cumulative 175 basis points of cuts to the fed funds target rate helped normalize the slope of the yield curve, providing both carry and total return opportunities for longer-duration liquidity strategies. We continue to highlight opportunities to capture more balanced risk/return opportunities in our Short Duration 1-3 Year Strategy. It remains well positioned to benefit from declining yields, provide stability amid a maturing economic cycle and navigate the heightened volatility associated with ongoing shifts in monetary policy.

Amid market volatility, the three pillars of our investment process — Fundamentals, Valuations and Technicals — help us both avoid investment pitfalls and identify opportunities. We continuously assess our market outlook against historical valuations in pursuit of sectors and securities with attractive risk-return characteristics.

Our focus on the balance between risk and return — what we refer to as return symmetry — is a natural extension of our investment process. The concept of symmetry considers the relationship between risk and the potential compensation for that risk. Is it balanced, or is it skewed in one direction? Being on the wrong side of an asymmetrical return-risk relationship usually leads to an undesirable outcome.

We believe the PSN award is a direct reflection of our risk-focused approach.

PSN Awards

The PSN Top Guns award list, published by Zephyr, highlights top-performing separately managed account strategies, distilled through rigorous performance-based selection criteria.

maintained an r-squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark;
exhibited returns greater than the style benchmark; and
exhibited a standard deviation less than the style benchmark.

This is the third consecutive year PNC Capital Advisors' Short Duration 1-3 Year Strategy has been awarded Manager of the Decade. View previous Top Guns awards.

Important Disclosures

PSN Manager of the Decade Criteria: The PSN universes were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and use only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Mutual fund and commingled fund products are not included in the universe. Products must have an r-squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the latest ten year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period and also standard deviation less than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period. At this point, the top ten performers for the latest ten-year period become the PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade. The PSN Short Maturity Universe is composed of 135 firms and 248 products.

PSN Six Star Top Guns Criteria: The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three-year rolling periods. Products are then selected which have a standard deviation for the five year period equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top ten information ratios for the latest five-year period then become the TOP GUNS.

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PNC Capital Advisors, LLC claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®). A list of composite descriptions for PNC Capital Advisors, LLC and/or a presentation that complies with the GIPS® standards are available upon request.

PNC Capital Advisors, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PNC Bank N.A. and an indirect subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. serving institutional clients. PNC Capital Advisors’ strategies and the investment risks and advisory fees associated with each strategy can be found within Part 2A of the firm’s Form ADV, which is available at https://pnccapitaladvisors.com.

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