Sustainability Inside

Sustainability Inside November 2021 Download PDF The “Intel Inside” advertising program that began in 1991 is thought to be the most powerful cooperative marketing program in history. Intel Corporation successfully aimed its advertising toward consumers, convincing them that Intel chips were the ingredient needed to have a positive personal computing experience. Today, ESG investing is  Read more ➝

Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q3 2021 Commentary

Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q3 2021 Commentary   More information including a since-inception performance for each of the strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. As we noted in our outlook last quarter, U.S. equity markets delivered between one and two years of expected returns in just the first six months of 2021. Equity markets pushed  Read more ➝

TOP GUNS PSN MID CAP VALUE UNIVERSE PERIODS ENDING JUNE 30, 2021

Criteria: The PSN universes were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and use only gross of fee returns. Mutual fund and commingled fund products are not included in the universe. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPS compliant. Products must have an r-squared of 0.80 or  Read more ➝

Ballast Equity Management Awarded Top Guns Designation by Informa Financial Intelligence

Oakbrook, IL – August 24, 2021 – Ballast Equity Management has been awarded multiple PSN Top Guns distinctions by Informa Financial Intelligence’s PSN manager database, North America’s longest running database of investment managers. Ballast was honored with both 5 Star and 6 Star Top Gun ratings for its Quality Value Midcap strategy in the Mid  Read more ➝

A Quality Upgrade for Mid Cap Investing

Download PDF Ballast is pleased to celebrate another significant milestone, the fifth anniversary of the firm’s Quality Value Midcap strategy. Ballast’s founders, Randy Hughes and Jeff Kautz, have managed U.S. mid cap equity portfolios as a team for more than twenty years and believe this asset class to be the “sweet spot” for investors, one  Read more ➝

BALLAST EQUITY MANAGEMENT, LLC INVESTMENT STRATEGIES OFFERED ON THE SMARTX PLATFORM

Oakbrook Terrace, IL – July 2021 – Ballast Equity Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor, today announced their investment strategies are now available on SMArtX Advisory Solutions (“SMArtX”), a leading innovator in unified managed accounts (UMA) technology and architect of the SMArtX turnkey asset management platform (TAMP). The relationship with SMArtX will enable Ballast’s Quality  Read more ➝

BALLAST EQUITY MANAGEMENT, LLC Q2 2021 COMMENTARY

Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q2 2021 Commentary More information including a since-inception performance for each of the strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. Further reopening of the U.S. economy fueled robust economic growth and rising markets during the quarter. In just five memorable quarters, we have gone from a severe economic contraction and uncertainty to  Read more ➝

An interview with The Wall Street Transcript: Choosing Quality Small- and Mid-Caps for a Smoother Ride, Better Performance

JEFF KAUTZ is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager of Ballast Equity Management LLC. Prior to founding Ballast, he was with Perkins Investment Management from 1997 to 2015, where he held roles including CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Kautz also served as co-manager of the Janus Henderson Mid Cap Value Fund  Read more ➝

Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q1 2021 Commentary

Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q1 2021 Commentary   More information including since-inception performance for each of the strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. Vaccines and stimulus provided a double-barreled boost to equity markets in the quarter, with particularly sharp gains in lower quality, more economically sensitive stocks. These sharp gains produced significant headwinds for the quality-biased  Read more ➝