Susan Lerch

Columbia Management Advisors invests in the US public equity and debt markets. They focus on growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies selected on the basis of a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create their equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index. Columbia Management Advisors invests in short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term high-quality debt instruments including treasuries, mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, agency bonds and asset backed securities to create their debt portfolio mix. The firm uses a combination of their equity and debt strategies to manage balanced portfolios and benchmarks performance against the S&P 500 Index and Lehman Aggregate Index. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invests in the stocks of large-cap companies in the technology, energy minerals and consumer non-durables sectors. They maintain a low turnover rate.

Provides investment advice

CMIA manages no-load mutual funds and separate client-focused equity, fixed-income and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap domestic and international companies. Their investment strategy combines a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock selection process. CMIA’s fixed-income investments focus on short-term, intermediate-term and long-term high-quality debt instruments including US Treasuries, MBS, ABS, municipal bonds and agency bonds. Their balanced investment approach is a blend of their equity and debt strategies. Portfolios are benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index and the Barclays Capital Aggregate Index (formerly the Lehman Aggregate Index).