Ziegler Capital Management, LLC, an Illinois-based asset management firm with a history of providing investment solutions for institutions, mutual fund sub-advisory clients, municipalities, pension plans, Taft Hartley, and individual investors, acquired a minority stake in GIA Partners, LLC, a New York-based asset manager and Minority Business Enterprise focused on fixed income and credit strategies that has managed credit portfolios in virtually every part of the world’s fixed income markets as well as through some of the most severe credit events in history.