Tony Craddock

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.

Bailard manages diversified portfolios across a broad risk spectrum for their clients. The firm carefully constructs diversified portfolios of assets that have low correlations with one another with the intention of enhancing return and reducing volatility. Their process begins with the creation of a longer-term strategic portfolio which consists of a mix of low and high volatility assets. Bailard uses a combination of quantitative research/models, fundamental analysis and/or qualitative judgment. Their fundamental research expertise is used in the analysis of their fixed income, real estate and specialized strategies.

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