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Investment Management Client Services Building a Culture Around Staying the Course
Explore how William Blair Investment Management is helping pension funds navigate different market cycles by providing them with long-term mindsets and distinctive approaches.
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Why Consider Frontier Markets Debt?
We love investing in frontier markets because each opportunity is truly unique, and the breadth and depth of this universe is constantly expanding.
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Demystifying Emerging Markets Debt
Understanding emerging markets debt involves recognizing the risks, myths, and opportunities that differentiate it from other asset classes.
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Embracing the Qualitative
We believe cashflow, financial returns, and other traditional quantitative markers of performance provide a good picture of present-day quality, but more difficult-to-quantify qualitative attributes indicate a company’s enduring quality.
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Meticulous Bottom-Up Analysis
While we account for macroeconomic factors in our analysis, we believe we add the greatest value for clients through our rigorous approach to fundamental analysis—delving into business models and industry economics.
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Understanding Management Motivation
Because management decisions are a key driver of company performance, we work to become deeply familiar with the mindset and temperament of each management team.
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Entrepreneurial Environment
Just as we believe in giving everyone on the team a voice, we create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to take on real responsibilities, regardless of tenure, and colleagues feel a sense of ownership because they’ve grown with the team.
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Highly Collegial
Because collaboration is so important to our process, we strive to create an atmosphere that is conducive to the sharing—and debate—of ideas.
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India’s Wake-Up Call: Strengthening Institutions to Support Local Communities
Making the growth case for India involves answering one key question: How can India differentiate itself from China? In William Blair Investment Management’s podcast, The Active Share, experts discuss what it would take for India to evolve into a global economic powerhouse.
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Curious about the ever-changing world and how it impacts investing? So are we. If you’re seeking the unobvious, The Active Share podcast is for you. Hear thought-provoking conversations with thought leaders, company executives, and William Blair Investment Management’s own analysts and portfolio managers as they share unique perspectives on investing in a world that’s always evolving.
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