Strategy Inception: 3/31/1998
Primary Capitalization: Large Cap
Primary Style Emphasis: Growth
Benchmark: Large Cap Growth
Holdings Range: 40-55
Sawgrass Large Cap Quality Growth
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Quick Facts
Product Description
Sawgrass Asset Management’s Diversified Large Growth product has had a defined investment philosophy since its inception in 1998. This product’s investment philosophy focuses on extracting value from enduring inefficiencies caused by investor behavior that creates opportunity for an approach that focuses on attractive valuation, low price volatility, consistent/stable growth, and the long-term compounding advantages provided by downside protection. Our quantitative and fundamental blended investment process helps us to identify these types of companies and build portfolios that exhibit these characteristics in our attempt to provide our clients longer-term outperformance with less risk.
Investment Process
The process begins with a sector specific quantitative scoring of a 900-1000 stock universe. Our proprietary modeling system evaluates twenty four factors contained in six groupings including business valuation, equity valuation, profitability, earnings quality, price volatility, and sales, earnings, and margin stability.
Our fundamental research process is then used to distinguish among the most intriguing candidates for portfolio inclusion based on a qualitative assessment of company specific attributes, growth prospects, and risk contribution. This process flows in five general steps and includes a detailed review of the quantitative scoring, financial statement analysis, evaluation of management growth presentation, review of analyst research and estimate revisions, and a risk/reward analysis.
This blended approach helps us stay focused and consistent in building the attractively valued, profitable, lower volatility growth portfolios that we believe provide the best foundation for longer term outperformance on both an absolute and risk-adjusted basis.
Lead Portfolio Manager
Marty LaPrade, CFA
Mr. LaPrade is a Partner at Sawgrass and the lead portfolio manager for the firm’s Diversified Large Growth Equity product. He is responsible for merging quantitative equity models with specific security selection.
He serves on several of the firm’s committees, including equity research, management and strategic planning.
A different kind of equity manager
Our investment approach emphasizes growth stocks with a consistent and stable earnings pattern, accelerating earnings estimates and companies with greater earnings potential than the market and their peer group. We combine quantitative models with bottom-up fundamental research into a consistent and structured investment discipline. We believe that in combination, these elements allow us to identify companies early in their cycle of positive earnings and estimates changes, which can offer our clients above average stock appreciation potential.
The Sawgrass Advantage
- Fully aligned interests between our team and our clients
- Continuity of leadership and low team turnover
- Enhanced investment expertise through long-term experience
- Provide up-market participation with desirable down-market capture resulting in alpha and low volatility over full market cycles
- Demonstrated success in fulfilling investor needs
- Consistent, repeatable, lower volatility profile and excess returns over time based on sound judgment and mature perspective
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- Dependable, knowledgeable and consistent service
- High confidence in understanding of institutional client challenges and successful outcomes with a commitment to educate and serve
- Responsive to client needs