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Multi-Asset

Flexible and dynamic global investing

High-conviction, actively-managed multi-asset solutions for an evolving market.

We identify opportunities across fixed income and equity, adhering to a disciplined research-driven approach tailored to each asset class and focused on the potential for risk-adjusted outperformance in concentrated, diversified strategies.

 

We incorporate equity by taking a comprehensive view of value that spans wide-ranging metrics we use to determine whether or not a security is priced appropriately, relative to other prospects.  We assess fixed income through intensive credit research, investing only when the risk/reward tradeoff appears tilted decidedly in the shareholder’s favor.

Investment Income Builder

A highly active and flexible approach allows us to go anywhere in the world to seek income.  The portfolio is global, diversified, and multi-asset built with income-producing stocks and bonds that seeks to deliver an attractive and growing income stream.   We apply a rigorous, bottom-up fundamental research process to identify dividend-paying companies with strong cash flows that have both the ability and willingness to pay and grow their dividends over time.

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$11B Global flexible income

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The Investment Income Builder Strategy employs bottom-up fundamental analysis to identify dividend-paying companies with strong cash flows that have both the ability and willingness to pay and grow their dividends over time. Highly active and benchmark agnostic, the strategy’s flexible approach allows it to invest in both stocks and bonds anywhere in the world when searching for compelling income opportunities. Under normal conditions, the portfolio invests at least 80% of assets in income-producing securities, including at least 50% of assets in common stock.

A Different Approach to Asset Allocation

Most strategic and tactical asset allocations have their foundations in decades of capital market expectations for return and risk. Those strategies seek to forecast changing market/economic conditions from macroeconomic perspective. When put into practice, this can often result in client portfolios with allocations to dozens of asset categories and small over/under weighting positions with little effect to the return and risk profile for the investor. We think there is a better way.  Our bottom-up fundamental research, a macroeconomic perspective and factor insights inform our global, multi-asset perspective.  Using broad categories of equity, fixed income and commodities, we build portfolios to deliver attractive real returns across various market environments and with lower overall volatility.

Summit Fund

Many investors are looking to grow assets over time through a mix of capital appreciation and current income intended to exceed the rate of inflation. Bottom-up fundamental research, a macroeconomic perspective and factor insights inform the construction of a global, multi-asset portfolio – using equity, fixed income and commodities – designed to deliver attractive real returns across various market environments and with lower overall volatility.

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The Multi-Asset Strategy is a global, diversified multi-asset strategy that seeks to grow assets over time through a mix of capital appreciation and current income that is intended to exceed the rate of inflation. The strategy applies a dynamic asset allocation, bottom-up fundamental research, a macroeconomic perspective and factor insights to construct a global, multi-asset portfolio designed to deliver attractive real returns across various market environments with lower volatility.

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