Daniel John Block

NWQ is a long-term investor which implements its investment strategies through an active research-driven, fundamentals-based, value-oriented process across the capitalization spectrum. Utilizing a corporate finance-oriented, cash flow focused discipline to identify potential investments trading at attractive absolute valuations, the firm typically invests in companies that it believes are undervalued, have downside protection, and possess catalysts or inflection points expected to help unlock value. NWQ employs a conservative approach to risk-adjusted performance by remaining disciplined in their approach, while weighing downside risk. Their stock selection process is driven by bottom-up fundamental research. NWQ’s research analysts constantly evaluate companies within their defined investable universe based upon a variety of both qualitative and quantitative criterion.

HighMark combines fundamental and quantitative analyses to build diversified equity portfolios that aim to outperform respective benchmarks. The firm provides a range of style-specific strategies using both internal and external managers. Their approach is a disciplined, consistent process to actively manage portfolios including equity, fixed income, liquidity management and multi-asset strategies. HighMark’s equity strategies seek to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns over an investment cycle by outperforming their benchmark index in absolute returns while assuming less risk. The firm’s fixed income investment professionals utilize both a top down and bottom up investment process to build diversified fixed income portfolios that seek to capture investment opportunities by actively managing risk through the various stages of the business and economic cycle.

JSMCO constructs portfolios based on each client’s clearly defined goals and risk objective. Portfolios are structured and securities are selected based on a Core and Satellite approach of equities, fixed income and liquidity. The Core selections generally include positions in index and exchange traded funds (ETFs) in equities and fixed income. Satellite positions consist primarily of individual stocks and bonds but also include strategic holdings in certain sector funds or ETFs to enhance exposure to specific sectors and asset classes. Securities are selected utilizing a fundamental, diversified approach. The firm employs a global asset allocation strategy to capture stock and bond market total return and minimize risk through a globally diversified strategy.

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Provides brokerage services

Functions as a College/University

Arnerich Massena uses a combination of optimization modeling and their own capital market, asset class and risk and return assumptions to assist in the construction of portfolios and in determining allocations to investment managers in various asset classes.