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What Sets Us Apart

For more than 90 years, Baird has helped individual investors attain their financial goals. This success results from a professional commitment to solid client relationships and uncompromising quality of service, which is reflected in our approach:

A Unique Approach to Planning

Wealth Management defines our consolidated view of your financial world. Dedicated teams of Baird specialists, focusing their expertise to develop a customized wealth management plan for you, support this approach.

Remaining Flexible

As a partner in managing your wealth, we understand that flexibility and control are important to you. We give you control throughout the process by building flexibility into our methodologies:

• Comprehensive investment solutions, bringing you flexibility in the changing markets
  
• Pricing alternatives structured around how you invest and what you invest in

We'll work with you in a way that best suits your style and your investment needs-keeping it flexible and keeping you in control.

Enhancing Your Experience

From the consolidated financial services of our Valued Investor Plans to offering real-time access to your account and information on the Internet, we are committed to bringing you what you want and need from a financial service provider.

To better understand our clients, we continually solicit feedback to help us stay attuned to your needs. This feedback has helped us stay in touch with what you want from us. We will continue to offer you the proactive, personalized service that sets us apart.

Dedicating Talent and Resources

We've dedicated talent and resources in an effort to provide you with the best answers and solutions in specialized areas such as:

• Financial Planning
  
• Trust & Estate Planning
  
• Research
  
• Asset Management
  
• Business Retirement Plans

Specialization in these areas ensures that the answers and solutions we provide will be the best we can offer. Combining our unique approach to planning, built-in flexibility, client focus, and our dedicated specialists allows us to provide you with services that truly set us apart.

Career Opportunities

For Career Opportunities within our Tampa Branch Office, please contact the Branch Manager at (800) 444-4391.

We're looking for experienced Financial Advisors who cultivate their client relationships, have solid investment records and judgment, and contribute to their living and working environments. If you're looking for a company that will understand and value your experience and past success, take a serious look at Baird.

A career as a Baird Financial Advisor offers challenging work, ongoing professional development, and unique rewards and recognition programs. In addition, you'll have the resources and support necessary to build strong client relationships.

If you are a Financial Advisor interested in learning more about what Baird can provide you and your clients please follow the link below to view a web site we have created just for you.
www.gobacktoyourfuture.com

You'll also experience a unique culture based on honesty, integrity, genuine concern for clients and associates.

• To see the Associates located in the Tampa Branch, click here.
  
• To see what we are doing in the Community, click here.
  
• Take a look at our newly renovated office, click here.

Firm Overview

Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices and operating affiliates in the United States, Europe and Asia. Baird serves individuals, corporations, institutional investors and municipalities as financial advisor, asset manager, investment banker and specialists in equity research, private equity and public finance. Baird's principal operating subsidiaries are Robert W. Baird & Co. in the U.S. and Robert W. Baird Group Ltd. in Europe.

History
Founded in 1919, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Member NYSE
Robert W Baird & Co. has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange since 1948.

Ownership
Baird is employee-owned and fully independent.

Based on capital, underwriting and M&A advisory activity, and the number of Financial Advisors and branch offices, Baird is one of the U.S.'s largest privately held employee owned securities firms headquartered outside New York.

Total Capital
Baird Holding Company's total capital was $723 million as of September 30, 2010, with regulatory net capital of $234 million. 

A Great Place to Work
Since 2004 Baird has been recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For."

Market Maker
Baird makes a market in more than 1,880 listed and NASDAQ securities.

Private Equity
$2.7 billion raised and managed globally

Trading Volume
Traded 3.6 billion shares of stock in 2009. Traded $230 billion in face value of bonds in 2009.

Assets in Client Accounts
Baird manages and oversees $79 billion in assets as of September 30, 2010.

Senior Executive
Paul E. Purcell, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer