Miller/Howard Investments, Inc. is an independent, research-driven investment management firm founded in 1984 and based in the Hudson Valley, New York. The firm specializes in dividend‑ and distribution‑oriented equity strategies—including utilities, infrastructure, energy and high‑income equities—seeking current income and long‑term capital appreciation while integrating ESG and shareholder advocacy into its research and stewardship.
Corporate governance and shareholder advocacy, securities regulation and disclosure (including ESG disclosure), retirement and fiduciary rules affecting investment advisers and funds, tax and dividend policy that affect income investors, and financial market structure and mutual/closed‑end fund regulation.
Primarily fee revenue from investment management and advisory services (management fees from separately managed accounts, mutual/closed‑end funds and other client vehicles); firm capital held in an ESOP.
Founder and CIO Lowell Miller; President Dana Troxell; Deputy CIO Greg Powell, PhD; Miller/Howard High Income Equity Fund (NYSE: HIE) and other firm‑managed strategies; ESOP trustee Spinnaker Trust.
Private, employee‑owned registered investment adviser (investment management firm)