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Investment Management

• Investment Principles

  We provide independent advice that is developed and delivered directly to clients by the firm’s professionals. Critically, we are held to a fiduciary standard, so our clients’ interests are placed ahead of our own.

  Transparency is a core belief, making effective and consistent communication fundamental to the client value proposition:

  • Regular discussions with clients about their portfolios in the context of their unique circumstances
  • Clear articulation of the investment performance of client portfolios
  • Periodic communication of the firm’s perspective on the global economy and financial markets

• Portfolio Management

  Our portfolios are customized to each client’s unique goals and objectives; for each client, we develop an investment objective statement that incorporates:

  • Client type/background, investment experience, and financial circumstances
  • Financial objectives and preferences
  • Distribution and liquidity requirements
  • Return and risk parameters
  • Strategic asset-allocation targets
  • Tax and legal considerations noted by the client’s tax and legal advisors

  We create diversified portfolios, utilizing a broad range of asset classes:

  • Global Stocks (domestic, developed and emerging international, all capitalizations)
  • Global Bonds (US government, corporate, international, municipal, high yield)
  • Hard Assets (commodities and real estate)

  We match investment opportunities in individual securities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other financial instructions with client investment objectives and focus on macro-economic trends to implement tactical portfolio management.

• Research Process

  • Our Investment Policy Committee operates as a team, delivering to each client relationship the collective experience and insights of all of our investment professionals
  • We apply our extensive experience to access and synthesize information from a variety of sources in an effort to objectively identify opportunities within all global markets
  • We combine a top-down, macro-economic view with a bottom-up, security-selection process to construct, monitor and manage client portfolios
  • Assessing the macro-economic environment enables us to identify broad business-cycle themes, thus forming the basis for the tactical management of asset classes
  • Within each economic sector, the responsible analyst monitors equity and credit positions, updates the risk / reward profile of each security in our client portfolios and recommends actions as appropriate
  • Our disciplined security-selection process is driven by fundamental analysis and price sensitivity
  • Our portfolio managers extend the Investment Policy Committee discussions to each client's investment objective statement through the active management of investment portfolios