Robert Bruce Cameron

Columbia Management Advisors invests in the US public equity and debt markets. They focus on growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies selected on the basis of a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create their equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index. Columbia Management Advisors invests in short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term high-quality debt instruments including treasuries, mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, agency bonds and asset backed securities to create their debt portfolio mix. The firm uses a combination of their equity and debt strategies to manage balanced portfolios and benchmarks performance against the S&P 500 Index and Lehman Aggregate Index. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invests in the stocks of large-cap companies in the technology, energy minerals and consumer non-durables sectors. They maintain a low turnover rate.

RCM Capital Management offers investment strategies that cover all market-caps and investment styles. The firm offers investment products that vary widely from regional and global strategies to multi-asset and structured products. They have particular expertise in: (1) regional/country equity strategies (2) global equity strategies (3) emerging markets equity strategies (4) thematic and sector strategies (5) alpha extension strategies (6) multi-asset absolute return strategies and (7) structured products. RCM's investment philosophy is based on proprietary sector-based fundamental research. Though not limited by sector, RCM tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, technology services and health technology sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. RCM maintains a medium turnover rate.

Mutual fund concern

Cameron's long-only and long/short investment strategies are driven by fundamental stock picking. They seek to own the best managed companies in Asia that consistently provide an ROE significantly above their cost of capital. These companies typically have unique products or brands with high barriers to entry, expanding market share or margins, proven management and a history of stable earnings growth. In their long/short strategies, they short companies that consistently destroy capital. The firm seeks to short companies that they believe mainstream investors have mispriced. These companies typically have brands with diminishing value or quasi-monopolies that are no longer defensible. They often have declining margins and declining market share. Many of these companies also have management that lacks focus or whose interest is not in line with minority investors.

Functions as a College/University

CMIA manages no-load mutual funds and separate client-focused equity, fixed-income and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap domestic and international companies. Their investment strategy combines a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock selection process. CMIA’s fixed-income investments focus on short-term, intermediate-term and long-term high-quality debt instruments including US Treasuries, MBS, ABS, municipal bonds and agency bonds. Their balanced investment approach is a blend of their equity and debt strategies. Portfolios are benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index and the Barclays Capital Aggregate Index (formerly the Lehman Aggregate Index).