Absolute Return Strategy
The strategy pursues positive total returns through dynamic allocations to equity, fixed income, and alternative investments.
Competitive advantages
Advanced portfolio construction
The team uses proprietary risk-based portfolio construction techniques that are transparent, diversified, efficient, and robust.
Tactical asset allocation (TAA)
The team is one of the longest-tenured global TAA managers, with a proven track record of adding value for clients since 1980.
Downside risk management
Innovative risk management strategies since 2015 have helped preserve capital while considering cost, consistency, and reactivity.
A long-term, value-oriented perspective with short-term adaptability
The team’s culture is a differentiating strength and includes a rich variety of backgrounds, thinking, and complementary skill sets.
Key risks
Market risk: Security markets are volatile and may decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, regulatory, political, or economic developments with different sectors of the market and different security types reacting differently to such developments.
Equity securities risk: Equity securities fluctuate in value and price in response to factors specific to the issuer of the security, such as management performance, financial condition, and market demand for the issuer's products or services, as well as factors unrelated to the fundamental condition of the issuer, including general market, economic, and political conditions.
Debt securities risk: Debt securities are subject to both credit and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the possibility that the issuer or guarantor of a debt security may be unable, or perceived to be unable or unwilling, to pay interest or repay principal when they become due, and credit risk increases as an issuer’s credit quality or financial strength declines. Interest rate risk is the possibility that interest rates will change over time such that when interest rates rise, the value of debt securities tends to fall and the longer the terms of the debt securities held the greater the impact of this risk.
Small-cap securities risk: If a strategy invests in the securities of smaller-capitalization companies, these securities tend to be more volatile and less liquid than those of larger companies.
High yield risk: If a strategy invests in high yield securities (commonly known as junk bonds), these securities are considered speculative and have a much greater risk of default or of not returning principal and their values tend to be more volatile than higher-rated securities with similar maturities.
Foreign securities risk: If a strategy invests in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, these investments may be subject to lower liquidity, greater price volatility, and risks related to adverse political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and may be affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Investors should know that this strategy deployed may be subject to additional investment risks. For important information about the investment manager, please refer to Form ADV Part 2.
