Strategies
Customized Solutions
Smith Group has the ability to customize solutions for its clients.  Applying its investment discipline within a risk budgeted portfolio construction framework, Smith Group is able to construct a portfolio using sophisticated risk modeling tools to maintain overall benchmark characteristics by minimizing benchmark relative exposures to risk factors such as market capitalization, valuation, industry, volatility, etc.  Our process then emphasizes value-added security selection as the dominant driver of portfolio excess return.  Portfolio holdings vary due to benchmark but are around 100 - 200 securities.

Strategies
Russell 1000 Growth Index
This Index measures the growth stocks within the Russell 1000, which is composed of the 1,000 largest companies in the Russell 3000 (about 90% of its total value).
• Inception: February 26, 2008
S&P 500 Citi Growth Index  
This Index is created by dividing the S&P 500 Index based upon seven different factors, four to determine value characteristics and three to determine growth characteristics. The companies with growth characteristics are allocated to the growth index, with about one-third being allocated to both the growth and value index.
• Inception: September 24, 2007

Capabilities
MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index)
This index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed and emerging markets.

MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Ex-US Index  
This index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed and emerging markets, excluding the United States.
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