Patrick Joseph McCafferty

Acadian UK is an active manager which employs sophisticated analytical models to select stocks and perform peer group (country, region and industry) valuation. The firm offers various investment strategies and utilizes a proprietary methodology to combine factor data and determine a return forecast for securities in markets worldwide, ranking the stock universe and employing a portfolio optimization system to trade off the expected return of the stocks with considerations such as the client's benchmark index, desired level of risk, transaction cost estimates and other requirements. Country and sector weights fall out of the bottom-up stock selection process and overall portfolio risk control ensures the desired level of diversification.