Portfolio Management

Our Portfolio Management philosophy is centered on maintaining a long-term strategic view. We understand our clients’ liquidity needs and spending policy, implement an investment selection process that is conviction based, and diligently support our practices with sound risk management.

Perpetual Portfolios

Comprehensive Management

Proven Strategies & Measurement

Portfolio Management

Our Portfolio Management philosophy is centered on maintaining a long-term strategic view. We understand our clients’ liquidity needs and spending policy, implement an investment selection process that is conviction based, and diligently support our practices with sound risk management.

Perpetual Portfolios

Comprehensive Management

Proven Strategies & Measurement

Long Term: We believe that a truly long-term approach with total return objectives is crucial for perpetual portfolios

Full-Time: We understand that full-time management and oversight with a disciplined methodology is key to success

Customized: Consideration of non-financial objectives, liquidity forecasts, and enterprise risk are fundamental to our process

Confident: We invest based on our conviction, macro themes, deep research, cost analysis, and risk metrics

Measured: We use rigorous quantitative metrics to verify that we have diversified, balanced exposure

Long Term: We believe that a truly long-term approach with total return objectives is crucial for perpetual portfolios

Full-Time: We understand that full-time management and oversight with a disciplined methodology is key to success

Customized: Consideration of non-financial objectives, liquidity forecasts, and enterprise risk are fundamental to our process

Confident: We invest based on our conviction, macro themes, deep research, cost analysis, and risk metrics

Measured: We use rigorous quantitative metrics to verify that we have diversified, balanced exposure

Experience & Execution

Having a philosophy is not enough. Our partners have the proven, institutional CIO experience necessary to put philosophy into successful practice under all market conditions. We also have the execution capacity and industry leading technologies to deliver a level of service and dependability that is unmatched in the industry.

Experience & Execution

Having a philosophy is not enough. Our partners have the proven, institutional CIO experience necessary to put philosophy into successful practice under all market conditions. We also have the execution capacity and industry leading technologies to deliver a level of service and dependability that is unmatched in the industry.

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Discipline

We believe deep and continuous analysis of portfolios is essential to successful results. We apply the combined experience of our partners to create an unremitting structure for actively managing client portfolios with perpetual diligence, timely modifications, and rebalancing.

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Precision Workflows

We learn each client’s existing organizational processes, and build investment workflows to meet their unique requirements. Each workflow is then relentlessly refined and continuously tracked to ensure on-time delivery of the highest quality deliverable – every task, every time.

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Conviction

We emphasize conviction before investing, and for the life of the investment as a risk management tool. Our experience has shown that such conviction leads to more efficient portfolios than structures that create overly diversified and complex portfolios to manage risk.

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Secure Processes & Systems

We leverage deep technical experience, on staff, to ensure the security of our systems, our clients’ data, and their investment, far exceeding NIST 800-171 cybersecurity standards.
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Patience:

Patience is an investment skill that comes with experience.  We are aware that reaffirming our conviction and robust communications with clients during periods of market disruptions can lead to better decisions.  We also know opportunities arise from the impatience of other investors.

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Continuity of Service

Each client has a dedicated service team led by a senior partner.  Keeping the same professionals in support of each institution enables a level of trust, integration, and effectiveness that continually increases our value to the client – day over day and year over year.
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The trustees of endowed institutions are the guardians of the future against the claims of the present. Their task in managing the endowment is to preserve equity among generations.

– James Tobin, Economist

The trustees of endowed institutions are the guardians of the future against the claims of the present. Their task in managing the endowment is to preserve equity among generations.

– James Tobin, Economist