Columbia Management Distributors is the primary investment management division of Bank of America Corporation. It offers a variety of investment management services and advises institutional and mutual fund portfolios. It is a financial institution that serves individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a wide range of banking, investing, and asset and risk management products and services. The company provides a variety of other services that include tax and financial records analysis, handling depositions and pretrial proceedings, offering fraud prevention systems, trial exhibits and expert testimony, and design and implementation of compliance systems. Columbia Management Distributors is located in Boston.