• Core manager
• Located in London, Canada
• Managing $4.3 billion in assets

Highstreet Asset Management believes that investment decisions are best made without the influence of human biases. To accomplish this they use a quantitative process that guides their decisions of when to buy, hold or sell a particular security. The firm creates portfolios that meet high standards for growth, value, quality and risk.

• Core manager
• Located in Toronto, Canada
• Managing $26 billion in assets

Scotia Cassels Investment Counsel was founded in 1877 and provides investment management services to Canadian individuals, institutions, foundations and endowments. They employ a team-based active management process that combines both a “top-down” macro approach as well as a “bottom-up” fundamental approach to investing. Their disciplined process provides risk controls through asset class, region, sector, industry and market capitalization diversification.

• Global thematic core manager
• Located in London, England
• Managing $81.1 billion in assets

Newton was one of the pioneers of thematic investing and this has been fundamental in delivering consistently strong performance in both rising and falling markets. Thematic investing identifies themes and trends that are influencing, or are likely to influence, economies or stock markets across the globe. Once identified, individual security selections are made that compliment these long-term macro themes.

• Core manager
• Located in Los Angeles, U.S.
• Managing $8.4 billion U.S. in assets

Analytic’s investment philosophy is founded on the premise that the systematic application of quantitative techniques has the potential to deliver consistent risk-adjusted returns, regardless of market cycle. With vast amounts of information available on demand, they believe that the proper weighting of the right variables in the selection process is pivotal to their success.