Diversified Capital Builder Strategy
The strategy targets long-term total return by primarily investing in an actively managed portfolio of equity and fixed income securities, with an emphasis on equity.
Competitive advantages
Asset class flexibility
The team analyzes each component of a company’s capital structure, seeking the best relative-value opportunities and total return potential.
Process resilience
The team’s process can uncover additional opportunities and assist in preserving liquidity during periods of extreme market stress.
Independent risk management
The team’s risk analysis is overseen by the Office of the CIO and implemented by over 30 dedicated team members.
Leveraging coordination, research, and flexibility to drive returns.
The team philosophy employs the belief that each asset class has a defined and fundamental role when constructing portfolios for clients.
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.
