Chicago Equity Partners
Best described as a Growth at a Reasonable Price manager, Chicago Equity Partners uses a quantitative approach that combines growth and value characteristics in stock selection. Their sector and industry weightings closely match the S&P 500.
Benchmark: S&P 500

Brandywine Global Investment
Brandywine takes a relative value approach  to large cap domestic equities. While sector weightings are pegged to those of the Russell 1000, stock selection is based on traditional measures of value. Benchmark: Russell 1000.  

Great Lakes Advisors
Great Lakes buys low valuation (low P/E) stocks of established companies. Portfolios are neither concentrated nor indexed to the market, but diversified across industries whose cumulative market capitalization is at least half the S&P 500. Benchmark: Russell 1000 Value

U.S. Trust Diversified
U.S. Trust's Diversified Value managers take a contrarian approach, seeking good- quality companies with low valuations and the potential for fundamental improvement.  A number of holdings are at the smaller end of the large-cap range. Benchmark: Russell 1000 Value

Radnor Small Cap
Radnor looks at companies with a market capitalization between $500 million and $1.5 billion.  They select stocks for a mix of value and growth characteristics. Benchmark: Russell 2000

Boston Common
Boston Common does global social investing. The firm goes beyond screening and managing international portfolios. Their in-house social research supports an active program of corporate dialogue and shareholder advocacy. Benchmark: MSCI EAFE

Urdang Securities Management
Focused exclusively on real estate, Urdang recognizes real estate securities as a hybrid financial investments that must be evaluated on a number of factors, including the value of the firm's property portfolio and the quality of its management team. Benchmark: Dow Jones Wilshire Real Estate Securities Index

Schroder Investment Management
Schroder Investment Management follows a low-risk, value strategy, researching individual bonds to take advantage of pricing inefficiencies in the bond market. Benchmark: Lehman Aggregate Bond Index

Benchmarks
Benchmarks are used for performance comparison.  Friends Fiduciary uses several indexes as benchmarks, allowing us to track how the individual investment managers and the Fund as a whole are performing.  The performance of the fund relative to these measures is monitored over short and long periods of time, with the long-term results providing a more relevant measure.  While appropriate performance is a necessary component of investing, the Consolidated Fund has other important objectives, such as managing risk, avoiding extreme volatility, generating stable-to-rising income and meeting social responsibility guidelines. The description of the benchmarks Friends Fiduciary currently uses may help put them in perspective. It is important to remember, however, that benchmarks are static and no one benchmark exactly matches the investment philosophy of any given manager or fund.

S&P 500
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks.  Dating from the early 1940’s, the index is designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

Russell 1000
The Russell 1000 Index represents the extensive large-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe and includes the 1000 largest securities in the Russell 3000 Index.

Russell 1000 Value
The Russell 1000 Value Index, dating from 1992, measures the performance of those Russell 1000 securities with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The Russell system does not categorize stocks as strictly growth or value; about one-third- of stocks appear in both the growth and value indexes.  

Russell 2000
The Russell 2000 includes the smallest 2000 securities in the Russell 3000.

Dow Jones Wilshire Real Estate Securities Index
Wilshire Associates introduced the Dow Jones Wilshire Real Estate Securities Index in 1991.  The index measures the performance of publicly traded real estate securities.

MSCI EAFE
The MSCI EAFE Index comprises 21 MSCI country indices, representing the developed markets outside of North America: Europe, Australia and the Far East.

Lehman Aggregate Bond Index
The Lehman Aggregate Bond Index represents the entire bond universe and contains securities from the Lehman Government/Corporate Index and the Lehman Mortgage-Backed Securities Index.  Dating from 1976, it measures the total return of all major sectors of the domestic, taxable bond market.

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