Fundamental to Commonfund’s mission to enhance our clients’ financial resources is a client-centric approach to investment management. But ask any other top-tier investment firm and they, too, will claim to be client-centric. The Commonfund difference: Commonfund has no outside shareholder interests which may differ from those of our clients and our only business is investment management so our interests are naturally aligned with those of our clients. Our business model is to reinvest in Commonfund for the benefit of our clients to help them in turn advance the missions of their institutions:
- We invest in our people to make sure that we continue to attract and retain the highest quality investment and relationship staff; and
- We invest in technology to provide for state-of-the-art reporting, portfolio analysis and risk management; and
- We invest in original research and actively promulgate best practices among our clients and prospective investors.
Because of this commitment, Commonfund clients have access to a range of investor resources that we believe are superior to those of other investment management firms, providing:
- Dedicated Relationship Management of seasoned professionals led by a senior team, Managing Director and above
- Quantitative Portfolio Analytics and portfolio modeling to help investor decision making on policy decisions such as asset allocation and spending/distribution
- Independent Risk Management to complement on-going manager due diligence
- Proprietary Research and Publications plus a active program of investor conferences, seminar and roundtables to enhance the sharing of best practices