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Distinctively Active

We believe active investment management that is deliberate and distinguishable will better position investment portfolios to meet long-term goals. We advocate robust portfolio construction focusing on highly active, concentrated and high conviction portfolios. Our rigorous, integrated approach is designed to identify and partner with institutional asset managers whose expertise and disciplined approaches are typically not accessible to the average investor.
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What Is Active Share?

Active Share was developed to quantify the degree of active management. Learn how it measures the fraction of a fund's portfolio that differs from the benchmark index.
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Touchstone Core Municipal Bond Fund Portfolio Manager Perspective

Jeff Timlin, CFA of Sage Advisory, sub-advisor to the Touchstone Core Municipal Bond Fund, discusses challenges in the municipal marketplace and the opportunities that have arisen.
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How to Identify Truly Active Managers

The importance of finding truly active management is the foundation for Touchstone's approach to identifying Distinctively Active asset managers.
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What Is Distinctively Active Management & Why Is It Important?

Can deliberate and distinguishable active management better position portfolios to meet long-term goals? Touchstone thinks it can. We believe that Distinctively Active management must exhibit qualities that, according to research, are associated with potential benchmark outperformance.

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Distinctively Active Podcast Episode 7

A Discussion with Art DeGaetano of Bramshill Investments

Our guest today is Art DeGaetano, CIO and Founder of Bramshill Investments. Mary Mock talks with Art about his career journey as well as his investment philosophy at Bramshill.
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Flexible Income Insights: An Update from Art DeGaetano

Art DeGaetano of Bramshill Investments, LLC, sub-advisor to the Touchstone Flexible Income Fund, discusses where the portfolio has been seeking relative value and how it is being positioned looking forward.
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Rising Interest Rate Risk: Thoughts from Art DeGaetano

Art DeGaetano of Bramshill Investments, LLC, sub-advisor to the Touchstone Flexible Income Fund, discusses factors currently influencing interest rate movements and shares his perspective on the risks that may accompany higher rates.
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Distinctively Active Podcast Episode 6

A Conversation with Chris Mathewson of Ares Management

Our guest today is Chris Mathewson of Ares Management. Chris is a partner and portfolio manager of U.S. Liquid Credit in the Ares Credit Group, where he is primarily responsible for managing Ares' U.S. high yield credit strategies. We're talking with Chris today about his personal career journey, as well as what gives Ares its investment edge.
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Distinctively Active Investing Podcast Episode 5

Steve Goddard & Brian Campbell - The London Company

Steve is the founder of The London Company and heads the firm's investment management teams. Steve and Brian are portfolio managers of the Touchstone Mid Cap Fund, the Touchstone Large Cap Fund and the Touchstone Small Cap Fund. They'll be discussing The London Company's investment strategy, as well as their personal backgrounds and career trajectories.
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Distinctively Active Podcast Episode 3

A Conversation with Will Muggia of Westfield Capital Management

Our guest, Will Muggia is CEO and CIO of Westfield Capital Management, a growth equity asset management boutique based in Boston. As the lone capitalist in a family of medical practitioners, Will Muggia discusses how he got his start in the business and shares Westfield’s “Growth At A Reasonable Price” philosophy.
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Distinctively Active Podcast Episode 2

A Discussion with Martijn Cremers, PhD

Listen in to better understand the Three Pillars of active management through discussion with Martijn Cremers, Martijn J. Gillen Dean and Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance, at the University of Notre Dame’s, Mendoza College of Business. He covers common pitfalls when applying active share and rounds out the conversation with important considerations when it comes to the hot topic of expenses.
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Multi-Asset Portfolio Management: Combining Prudent Investing With Timely Execution

The approach utilized for the Touchstone Balanced Fund seeks to overcome shortcomings associated with traditional balanced stock/bond portfolios while adding value through active management. Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. the Fund’s sub-advisor discusses two proprietary tools designed to address this.
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Sands Capital Advocates for Active Management

Touchstone Sub-Advisor Sands Capital Management Foresees Continued Opportunities Amid Dynamic Environment
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Martijn Cremers on What’s Important About Active Share

Tim Paulin of Touchstone speaks with Martijn Cremers, one of the thought leaders responsible for introducing the now widely recognized measure of active management called active share.
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U.S. Preferred Securities: Unique Characteristics From a Bramshill Perspective

As interest rates world-wide remain near all-time lows, income investors have reason to look beyond their usual areas of market concentration. Bramshill makes a case for U.S. preferred securities.
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Millennials Are Already Sold on Active Investing (They Just Don’t Know It Yet)

Millennials are an increasingly prominent force in investing, and an increasingly popular active investment strategy — focused on advancing social good — resonates with their generation.
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Paulin Discusses How to Better Evaluate Mutual Fund Performance With U.S. News

A statement shows performance versus a benchmark. An investor judges progress toward a goal … and determines what comes next.
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Seeking an Active Investment Manager? Focus on These 5 Factors

Investors don’t have to search long to find articles touting the rapid growth of "passive" index funds over the past couple of decades, usually accompanied by an indictment of active management as a whole. While the rise of indexing is factual, the indictment of active investment management could benefit from context.
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