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International Small Cap Core

Strategy Goal
The strategy seeks to deliver a high level of total return by investing primarily in stocks of small to mid-sized international companies.
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Experienced Investment Team

Deep, tenured team with an established track record of strong relative performance, managing international equities for over 25 years.

High Quality

The strategy seeks to identify quality businesses which are growing, consistently deliver high returns and gross margins, with lower leverage relative to our benchmark.

Flexible Approach

Active positioning across sectors, regions, and market caps to balance opportunity and risk in changing market environments.
Portfolio Highlights

  • Invests in the stocks of companies with the potential for high returns or a path to high and sustainable returns, good free cash flow generation from company assets, and a defendable moat around company assets.
  • Management utilizes a proprietary risk system with an extensive tool kit for providing a window into risk at a stock, sector, regional, and portfolio level.
  • Individual stock positions are typically less than 5%, and sector weightings are no more than 25% or 1.5x the benchmark.
  • Emerging-markets exposure is generally no more than 15%.
Vehicles Offered

Separate Account
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Portfolio managed directly on behalf of an institutional client.

Private Funds
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Pooled investment vehicle with periodic liquidity available to qualified purchasers.

Mutual Fund
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Pooled investment vehicle available to individual and institutional investors.

Variable Insurance Portfolio
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Pooled investment vehicle available only to separate accounts of certain insurance companies.

The Investment Team

Professional Headshot of Vincent McBride

Vincent J. McBride

Partner, Portfolio Manager
38 Years of Experience
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Thomas J. Banks, CFA

Portfolio Manager
22 Years of Experience
By The Numbers

Investment Professionals
33

Years Avg. Industry Experience
21
Years of industry experience as of 01/01/2025.
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Performance
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Global Equity

The strategy seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in stocks of both U.S. and non-U.S. companies.
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Risks to Consider: The value of investments in equity securities will fluctuate in response to general economic conditions and to changes in the prospects of particular companies, including market, liquidity, currency, and political risks. Small cap company stocks tend to be more volatile and may be less liquid than large cap company stocks. Small cap companies also may have more limited product lines, markets, or financial resources and typically experience a higher risk of failure than large cap companies. The strategy may invest in foreign or emerging market securities, which may be adversely affected by economic, political, or regulatory factors and subject to currency volatility and greater liquidity risk.

Source: Standard & Poor's Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index

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