Investment Strategies
Equity Management
For many of our clients, we construct a portfolio of individually managed, long-term, stock and bond holdings. We then add specialist managers around this core portfolio as a means of boosting returns, taking advantage of timely opportunities in the market place, and diversifying risk. (READ MORE)
- Individually Managed Core Equity Portfolio:
Glenmede believes that investing in undervalued companies with strong fundamentals and higher quality business models is a powerful combination. Companies with these combined characteristics tend to generate superior returns over the long term while holding their value better in down markets. Attractively valued equity investments are identified and researched by Glenmede’s experienced team of equity fund portfolio managers, quantitative and fundamental research analysts, and traders.
For taxable accounts, portfolio managers invest in a tax-efficient manner, avoiding short-term capital gains, managing turnover, and using losses to offset gains. Given that every client faces a different tax situation, we do not force our equity portfolios to look identical to each other. Rather, we create a portfolio that is customized to the client’s particular situation.
- Specialist Managers:
The world abounds with interesting and profitable investment ideas. Specialist managers offer a way to access those opportunities. Glenmede manages a variety of specialist portfolios including growth, value, large cap, small cap, international and 130/30 strategies.
Our Manager Alliances Program expands the universe further by researching and identifying exceptional investment practitioners in a wide variety of asset strategies.
We combine Core Managers and Specialist Managers based upon our own investment views on the most attractive combination coupled with our clients’ preferences for return, risk, tax efficiency, and proprietary versus open architecture.
Fixed Income
Glenmede’s disciplined approach to fixed income is long-term and risk-averse. Portfolios are constructed to provide price stability during periods of interest rate or credit spread volatility in order to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. (READ MORE)
With over $4.5 billion of fixed income assets under management and an experienced fixed income team, Glenmede offers clients two fixed income investment formats: a separately managed portfolio or mutual fund portfolios. The choice of using a mutual fund versus a separately managed portfolio is dependant on the size of the investment and the availability of the strategy desired in a separately managed or fund format.
The fixed income process begins with a review of client objectives, constraints, and risk tolerance. This is followed by portfolio construction, individual security selection, and portfolio maintenance. This process is repeated throughout the year as market circumstances change or as client needs dictate.
Glenmede seeks to add value primarily through sector rotation, segment selection, and security selection. Our investment decisions are driven by a combination of fundamental and quantitative technical analysis incorporating firm proprietary investment models. Client portfolios are customized on a tax-aware basis, utilizing cash management, total return, or income- generating strategies.
Manager Research Program
Glenmede provides access to a broad spectrum of asset classes. Strategies may be implemented using mutual funds, separately managed portfolios, and alternatives. Implementing any of these strategies is dependant on a client’s overall investment goals as well as the size of the investment mandate. (READ MORE)
Our clients have access to highly-reputable world-class managers across all geographies and investment styles with the following characteristics:
- A well-articulated investment discipline
- A staff of experienced and specialized professionals
- Business metrics built around performance rather than sales
- Stakeholders in the strategies they manage
- Solid operations and business structure
Glenmede provides access to all asset classes including domestic and international equities and fixed income – as well as specialized products such as high yield debt, convertible bonds, and MLPs. We continually look to enhance the products offered to clients.
Private Equity and Real Estate
Investments in Private Equity provide the potential for enhanced returns versus traditional stock and bond portfolios. Glenmede carefully chooses its Private Investments in the context of broad investment choices to provide its clients with an opportunity to earn outsized returns. These investments may be appropriate for certain qualified clients who are willing to commit funds on a long-term basis and are prepared to incur a higher level of risk in pursuit of potentially higher rates of return. (READ MORE)
Private Investments in sectors such as Leveraged Buyout, Growth Equity, Distressed, Real Estate, and Venture Capital can provide clients with strategies that are not available in the public markets. Sponsors of Private Equity funds are active owners who build new companies, fund high levels of growth, restructure or re-configure businesses, or execute turnarounds of struggling businesses.
With over fifty years of combined private investment experience, Glenmede's alternative asset professionals have long-standing relationships with the most successful fund sponsors and access to "top tier" institutional quality partnerships. Glenmede's private investment vehicles employ a fund-of-funds approach – providing access through a single investment vehicle to an array of managers. Diversification is achieved through allocation across managers, vintage years, geographies, and sponsor groups.
Risk Management Strategies
Glenmede's Risk Management strategies represent an effective means to diversify holdings and mitigate risk for many of our clients. We use a wide range of dedicated in-house specialists to achieve these goals, including a full-time trading desk and experienced tax and legal professionals. Depending upon the unique client circumstances, we can provide an unbiased recommendation of risk management strategies including: listed options (puts and calls), customized derivatives contracts, collars, pre-paid forward sales, and exchange funds.