Equity Investment Strategies

Acadian's disciplined investment process is offered in a broad range of mandates, with flexibility to target specific geographical areas, capitalization size ranges, risk levels and other desired portfolio characteristics.

Whatever the mandate, the goal of all our strategies is to deliver consistent value added for our clients commensurate with their desired level of risk.

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Broad Non-U.S. and Global Strategies

• ADR International Equity – focuses on a broadly diverse mix of stocks in developing non-U.S. markets.
• All-Country World ex-U.S. – invests in a broadly diverse mix of stocks in developed non-U.S. and emerging markets across all cap sizes.
• Concentrated Non-U.S. Equity – a "high octane" approach which seeks to maximize risk-adjusted total return by investing in Acadian's most highly ranked stocks.
• Global Equity – seeks the best opportunities globally, holds equity positions across both developed and emerging markets.
• Global Growth Equity – focuses on investing in growth stocks identified by an adaptive factor model.
• Global Managed Volatility – seeks the best opportunities globally, holds equity positions across both developed and emerging markets with less volatility than the broad global equity markets.
• Non-U.S. All-Cap – focuses on a broadly diverse mix of stocks in developed non-U.S. markets across all cap sizes.
• Non-U.S. Equity – focuses on stocks in a broad array of developed non-U.S. markets.
• Non-U.S. Small-Cap – emphasizes smaller stocks in developed non-U.S. markets.

Regional Strategies

• Asia-Pacific Equity – provides investors with broad exposure to fast-growing Asian and Australian markets
• Canadian Growth Equity – provides investors with a growth title exposure to the Canadian market.
• Emerging Markets Equity – provides exposure to a wide range of developing equity markets in Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
• European Equity – a diversified European equity strategy holding large-cap and small-cap stocks.
• European Ex-U.K. Equity – a diversified, European ex-U.K. equity strategy that focuses on large-cap, small-cap, or all-cap stocks
• Japan Only Equity – brings Acadian's value-oriented process to bear on thousands of Japanese stocks.
• U.S. Equity – benchmarked to major capitalization weighted U.S. equity indices.
• U.S. Growth Equity – focuses on growth stocks in the U.S. market.
• U.S. Small-Cap Equity – focuses on small-cap stocks in the U.S. market.
• U.S. Value Equity – primarily value-oriented stocks in the U.S. market.

Long/Short Strategies

• All-Country World ex-U.S. Long/Short Beta 1 (130%Long/30% Short) – invests in a broadly diverse mix of stocks in developed non-U.S. and emerging markets across all cap sizes, with the ability to sell short the least attractive securities.
• European Long/Short Beta 0 Equity – a risk-controlled, market-neutral European equity strategy.
• Global Leveraged Long/Short Beta 0 Equity – holds long and short positions across all capitalization ranges in developed and emerging markets. This strategy is generally beta-neutral and the investment approach is intended to deliver attractive risk-return characteristics in the global equity markets.
• Global Long/Short Beta 0 Equity – holds long and short positions across all capitalization ranges in developed and emerging markets.
• Global Long/Short Beta 1 (130% Long/30%Short) – invests in a broadly diverse mix of stocks in the U.S., developed and emerging markets across all cap sizes, with flexibility to sell short the least attractive securities.
• Non-US Concentrated Long/Short Beta 1 (130%Long/30% Short) – an aggressive approach that seeks to maximize risk-adjusted total return by investing in Acadian's most highly ranked stocks with the ability to sell short the least attractive.
• Non-US Small-Cap Long/Short Beta 1 (130%Long/30% Short) – invests in small-cap stocks in developed international markets with opportunistic shorting of small- and large-cap stocks in these markets.
• North American Long/Short Equity – holds long and short positions across all capitalization ranges in the US and Canada.
• U.S. Long/Short Beta 0 Equity – a risk-controlled, market-neutral U.S. equity strategy.
• U.S. Long/Short Beta 1 (130%Long/30% Short) – Acadian is in the process of launching this strategy which will invest in a broadly diverse mix of stocks in U.S. markets across all cap sizes, with the ability to sell short the least attractive securities.