Our Expertise

Absolute Asia Asset Management

Absolute Asia Asset Management specializes in Asian (ex Japan) equities and follows a qualitative investment process that emphasizes fundamental research. Not style-biased, the firm’s approach provides flexibility to seek outstanding opportunities. The investment team runs a concentrated portfolio with a thematic approach based on pivotal micro and macro trends that drive economies in the region.

Active Investment Advisors

Active Investment Advisors, a division of Natixis Asset Management Advisors, L.P., specializes in index-based separate account solutions. The firm employs proprietary investment strategies that seek to match index performance on a pre-tax basis and outperform it on an after-tax basis by systematically harvesting tax losses that can be used to offset gains.

AEW Capital Management, L.P.

AEW Capital Management provides real estate investment management services through direct investment in commercial properties and real estate equity securities. The firm follows a research-driven, value-oriented investment discipline. Capabilities include core, value-added and opportunistic strategies in both the public and private property markets.

AEW Europe

AEW Europe focuses exclusively on real estate investments and represents a broad range of European expertise through its regional offices in western and central Europe. Integrating local market intelligence, the firm takes a research-based approach to real estate investment and fund management.

AlphaSimplex Group, LLC

AlphaSimplex Group offers dynamic asset allocation strategies and risk management protocols for traditional and alternative asset classes. The firm specializes in multi-strategy absolute return vehicles. Strategies are developed in a model-based quantitative framework with an emphasis on advanced risk management techniques and liquidity.

Aurora Investment Management

Aurora Investment Management offers a variety of alternative investment products designed to diversify traditional portfolios. The firm assembles portfolios of independent investment managers – and actively allocates capital among these managers – to pursue consistent rates of return with little or no correlation to U.S. stock and bond markets.

Capital Growth Management, L.P.

Capital Growth Management manages mutual funds and advisory accounts through an investment approach that emphasizes prompt response to changes in the market or economy. The firm seeks to deliver growth by selecting stocks with significant potential for price appreciation and generally constructs highly concentrated portfolios.

Caspian Capital Management

Caspian Capital Management manages alternative investment funds and structured products with a focus on high-grade U.S. fixed-income arbitrage and global quantitative trading strategies. Applying a combination of advanced quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis, the firm seeks to take advantage of market fluctuations to generate consistent, uncorrelated returns with low levels of volatility.

Gateway Investment Advisers, LLC

Gateway Investment Advisers, LLC has a 30-year history of providing hedged equity strategies for risk-conscious investors. The firm’s strategy seeks to capture the majority of returns associated with investing in equity securities while minimizing risk. Managers employ index options to generate cash flow and minimize downside risk.

Hansberger Global Investors, Inc.

Hansberger Global Investors applies an integrated, disciplined investment process to global equity investing. The firm’s multi-national team considers international opportunities from a local market perspective. Security selection and portfolio construction are primarily driven by bottom-up research. Portfolio construction, however, may also be influenced by top-down country and industry analysis, especially with respect to risk control.

Harris Associates L.P.

Harris Associates manages domestic equity, international equity, and balanced portfolios. The firm employs an intensive, fundamental in-house research process to identify companies trading at a significant discount to managers’ estimates of intrinsic business value. Managers construct portfolios on a stock-by-stock basis and follow a strict buy/sell discipline.

Loomis, Sayles & Company

Loomis, Sayles & Company has served the needs of institutional and individual investors for more than 80 years. An active, multi-style investment manager, the firm offers both traditional and highly specialized asset classes. Employing an opportunistic approach, balanced with disciplined, bottom-up research and quantitative risk analysis, the investment teams strive to produce above-average returns across asset classes and categories.

Managed Portfolio Advisors

Managed Portfolio Advisors, a division of Natixis Asset Management Advisors, L.P., specializes in flexible, customized overlay management. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services including product development, portfolio construction and investment management where investment recommendations from multiple money managers are implemented in a single, integrated portfolio.

Natixis Asset Management

Natixis Asset Management offers a wide range of expertise across asset classes denominated mainly in euros and other currencies: money market, fixed-income, equity and balanced portfolio investments. The firm specializes in single and multi-strategy alternative investments and socially responsible investing (SRI).

Natixis Caspian Private Equity

Natixis Caspian Private Equity is a joint venture between Caspian Capital Management and France-based Natixis Private Equity. The firm focuses on providing accredited investors access to the U.S. private equity markets through direct investments.

Natixis Multimanager

Natixis Multimanager is a multi-management specialist whose approach offers a combination of index-based management, active multi-management and multi-style investing. The firm offers a broad range of funds including multi-asset, equity and alternative investments.

Reich & Tang Funds

Reich & Tang Funds, a division of Reich & Tang Asset Management, LLC, specializes in the investment of short-term liquid assets through a family of money market funds and similar portfolios which include U.S. taxable, government, federally tax-free, state tax-free and offshore portfolios.

Snyder Capital Management

Snyder Capital Management is a value-oriented, opportunistic investment manager specializing in U.S. small- and mid-cap equity securities. In the firm’s investment approach, managers select stocks on the basis of a bottom-up, fundamental analysis of each company.

Vaughan Nelson Investment Management, L.P.

Vaughan Nelson Investment Management specializes in value equity investing with a focus on absolute return. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamental research process that seeks to capitalize on temporary information and liquidity inefficiencies in the equity universe. The firm’s long-term, consistent investment approach draws on its in-depth research capabilities.

Westpeak Global Advisors

Westpeak Global Advisors manages traditional and alternative equity strategies for large institutional investors. Westpeak specializes in ActiveBeta™ strategies using a proprietary, quantitative investment process that seeks to capture and deliver systematic sources of active returns in well-diversified portfolios with relatively low stock-specific risk and complete transparency, while controlling overall active risk.