Calamos Asset Management, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides investment advisory services to individuals including high net worth individuals, institutions, major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them. It also manages accounts for family offices and private foundations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income for its clients. It also launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in alternative investments markets. For its equity portion, the firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies to make its investments. For fixed income portfolios, it invests in high yield bonds. The firm employs qualitative and fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. It benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the MSCI Indices, Russell Indices, and S&P 500 Index and its fixed income investments against the BofA Merrill Lynch Global 300 Convertible Index, BofA Merrill Lynch All U.S. Convertibles Ex-Mandatory Index, and CS High Yield Index. Calamos Asset Management, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Naperville, Illinois with an additional office in New York City.