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Overview

We offer clients a diverse range of equity strategies driven by specialized teams with global reach and local expertise.

Key Differentiators

Structure

Highly specialized teams with long-tenured managers
Each team has a distinctive approach and viewpoint, unconstrained by a central CIO
Meaningful sustainability research integrated into various equity products

Strength

Diverse perspectives
Exceptional resources and networks
Culture of curiosity and collaboration

Strategies

Span geographies and investment styles
Wide range of risk appetites to suit client needs
Operate where we have conditions for excellence

Our Equity Platform

Our specialized solutions are focused on long-term performance and span the world's markets.

U.S.

International & Global

Emerging Markets

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Featured Insights

Global Equity Observer

The Great Disconnect

Despite the improvement in the environment since early April, the current euphoric atmosphere, with stretched valuations and record retail inflows, seems tough to justify given the modest growth outlook and multiple sources of uncertainty. As Bruno Paulson explains, we see a sharp disconnect between the state of the markets and the state of the real world.

Jul 28, 2025

Takeaways & Key Expectations

Equity Market Commentary - July 2025

In his most recent TAKE, Senior Portfolio Manager Andrew Slimmon discusses ways the equity market could still surprise, whether further to the upside or offering an opportunity to put money to work.

Jul 28, 2025

Tales From the Emerging World

Vietnam Unleashes the Private Sector

Vietnam’s combination of low wages and generous incentives turned it into an export machine. But faced with tariffs from its biggest trading partner, the country is undergoing a quiet revolution promoting the private sector as the engine of economic growth, reducing state bureaucracy and cutting red tape. After visiting the country, Steven Quattry explains why the decision to break away from the state-led model has led to unbridled optimism on the ground.

Jul 13, 2025

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Our Equity Teams

Led by long-tenured investors, our specialized teams use disciplined processes and strive to provide strong long-term investment results.

Applied Equity Advisors Team	The Applied Equity Advisors team combines the best of fundamental and quantitative approaches to investing to deliver highly active, style-flexible, concentrated equity portfolios with heavy emphasis on risk-control techniques throughout the investment process. The longstanding experience and judgment of its portfolio managers inform both the portfolio style positioning and the final stock selection.
Atlanta Capital Management	Atlanta Capital operates as an investment boutique with three investment teams leveraging a central investment philosophy. Our growth equity, core equity and fixed income teams offer both institutional and individual investors a broad range of high-quality stock and bond portfolios. This focus on seeking quality investments—without compromise—underpins our approach in both investment selection and firm management, supporting our long-term track record.
Counterpoint Global	Counterpoint Global’s culture fosters collaboration, creativity, continued development and differentiated thinking.
Emerging Markets Equity Team	The Emerging Markets Equity team bases its investment philosophy on proprietary research that shows how both country-level and stock-specific factors can drive risks and returns in emerging markets.
Global Opportunity	The Global Opportunity team creates high-conviction, concentrated portfolios of undervalued, high-quality businesses with strategies available on a global, regional and customizable basis.
International Equity Team	The International Equity team follows a disciplined investment process based on fundamental analysis and bottom-up stock selection. They believe that the best route to attractive long-term returns is through compounding and providing reduced downside participation.
Calvert Research and Management	Calvert invests across the global capital markets seeking the potential for long-term value creation and positive global impact — in our clients’ portfolios, the issuers we research and the global communities in which those issuers operate.
Calvert Research and Management Team	Calvert has one of the industry's largest and most diverse teams of ESG professionals, spanning research, engagement and investment solutions.
Japanese Equity Team	The Japanese Equity Team invests in stocks that it believes are undervalued but have a high likelihood of a positive price correction. Strategy implementation for the non Japanese Equity portfolio is delegated to our Japanese affiliate Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., Ltd.
Eaton Vance Equity Team	Eaton Vance Equity is comprised of six distinct investment teams of experienced, long-tenured investors. We employ bottom-up, research driven investment approaches designed to deliver attractive risk-adjusted long-term performance for clients. We utilize a structural approach to mitigate behavioral biases in investment decision-making. Eaton Vance Equity investment teams manage diverse strategies across U.S., international and global equity covering various market capitalization and investment styles.

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