Michael Buchanan

JHIUS offers US equity, global and international equity, fixed income, asset allocation and alternative investment strategies, including long-short portfolios. For their fundamental investment strategies, the firm seeks to add value versus benchmarks by actively pursuing alpha generation through their own intensive fundamental research. They utilize two complementary processes: a top-down macro analysis and a bottom-up risk/reward analysis.

CSAM aims to drive long-term performance and positive impact beyond returns.

Functions as a College/University

40/86 primarily invests client’s assets in multiple classes of fixed income securities and investments. The firm builds each portfolio from the bottom-up by selecting undervalued securities through proprietary, independent research. They place an emphasis on relative value, looking for opportunities where the market price of a security does not appropriately reflect its intrinsic value. The objective is to invest in those securities that the firm believes are undervalued and then sell them when they become fully valued in the market. 40/86 also perform a top-down asset allocation and performance attribution analysis. The firm’s portfolio managers have decision-making authority over investment decisions.

Western Asset is a global fixed-income investment manager committed to delivering long-term results through active management. The investment management team seeks to exceed benchmark returns while approximating benchmark risk or, for total return portfolios, within appropriate risk tolerances. The firm’s investment philosophy combines traditional fundamental and relative value analysis with an emphasis on diversification to dampen potential volatility. Issue selection is a bottom-up process that seeks to determine undervalued or overvalued securities.

BFM utilizes fixed-income strategies that are actively managed, model or index based. The firm generally employs an active investment style that emphasizes rotation among different types of debt on a relative value basis, specific security selection, quantitative analysis of each security and the portfolio as a whole and intensive credit analysis and review. They utilize a risk-controlled, systematic process for portfolio construction and alpha generation.