James M. Darke

Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management (PHN) offers equity, fixed-income and balanced investment products. The firm offers a variety of equity funds including Canadian, international, emerging markets and sector-specific offerings across all market-caps. They apply a wide variety of investment styles including: value, growth and quality growth at a reasonable price. PHN uses a combination of fundamentals-driven and top-down research. Their fundamental research focuses on individual companies and considers measures such as earnings, growth, balance sheet strength and management quality. Valuation is also an integral part of their process as a stock must be well-priced. The firm's top-down research focuses on economic conditions and the operating climate for a given stock. PHN employs a multiple strategy fixed-income investment approach. Their actively managed funds and investment solutions provide access to a wide range of fixed-income instruments including money market, mortgage securities, Government bonds (federal provincial), corporate bonds, high-yield bonds and foreign bonds.