Jennifer M. Brist

AJO offers benchmark-relative and absolute-return strategies across the market-cap spectrum of US, global and emerging markets equities, subject to the investment policies, limitations, and restrictions of their clients. They are value-oriented but believe superior results are best achieved by considering value, management, momentum, and sentiment. AJO favor asset-rich companies with higher earnings compared to price. Portfolios can be long-only or long/short. As a quantitative asset manager, AJO’s bottom-up research effort focuses on enhancing their firm-wide valuation, risk, and transaction-cost models, and ensuring that the data that feeds these models are accurate and representative for each company.

40/86 primarily invests client’s assets in multiple classes of fixed income securities and investments. The firm builds each portfolio from the bottom-up by selecting undervalued securities through proprietary, independent research. They place an emphasis on relative value, looking for opportunities where the market price of a security does not appropriately reflect its intrinsic value. The objective is to invest in those securities that the firm believes are undervalued and then sell them when they become fully valued in the market. 40/86 also perform a top-down asset allocation and performance attribution analysis. The firm’s portfolio managers have decision-making authority over investment decisions.

Renaissance seeks to deliver competitive long-term performance across a variety of asset classes and strategies. The foundation of their investment process is a method of blending proprietary quantitative models with qualitative research to build a portfolio of securities for each strategy that exhibits both good growth characteristics and reasonable valuations. The firm specializes in domestic equity, international equity, REIT, balanced, asset allocation and fixed income strategies across all market capitalization ranges.