U.S. Core Equity

TD Asset Management U.S. Equity

At a Glance

We seek out companies that have demonstrated superior earnings growth, positive business momentum, and sustainable profitability while ensuring we do not overpay for these growth characteristics.

Designed to Tilt Balance of Risk and Reward in Your Favor

  1. Rigorous bottom-up equity research and sophisticated portfolio construction methodology that generates alpha though security selection.

  2. Blending quantitative screening with qualitative analysis.

  3. Consistency in and high-impact growth characteristics – including superior earnings growth, positive business momentum and sustainable profitability.

  1. Disciplined risk management with a large risk management team that is separated from investment functions to help safeguard client assets.

  2. Active management by an investment team with an average of over 20 years of experience.

  3. Client-centric focus. The size of our operations creates efficiencies, and those benefits are incorporated into client objectives.

Philosophy and approach

  • With over 30 years of experience managing equity investments, our competitive advantage is a time-tested investment framework underpinned by a quality-biased philosophy, a continuously evolving process, a disciplined risk management culture and a deep commitment to client services.

    We believe that a company’s stock reacts positively to growth in earnings and cash flow, and that indicators of sustainable earnings growth appear at the company level before they are recognized in the stock price. We focus on stocks that are showing business momentum improvement and where the market valuation has not fully reflected that into the stock price.

    Investment Process:

    We use a ranking system based on earnings-per-share growth, positive earnings revisions, return on invested capital, and valuation to narrow the extensive company universe to a smaller list of companies that are worthy of careful consideration.

    After our process identifies a stock of interest, the fundamental research team undertakes an in-depth fundamental analysis. This research looks to identify the drivers of the company’s strong earnings growth, analyze its competitive advantages and validate our future earnings-growth assumptions.

    Our not only highlights potential buy candidates, but also sell candidates. When the stock displays characteristics no longer consistent with our style, it is reviewed by the investment professional with the appropriate sector coverage. We base our sell decisions on negative changes to the ranking of the stock, a deterioration of the fundamental or qualitative reasons for the original purchase, or to enhance the portfolio with a superior investment idea.

ESG

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration aligns with our philosophy of seeking investments in sustainable, long-term assets through a risk-managed process. We strive for a fully integrated ESG engagement process in our investment products.

Our Fundamental Equity Investment team integrates ESG factors directly into their investment analysis through a process involving the following central components:

Systematic ESG Reviews: We look at a number of ESG indicators that we believe apply to all industry sectors and elevate any issues that could put a company’s expected earnings at risk. Each company research report incorporates an ESG assessment, ensuring concerns around risk exposures are reviewed, updated and evaluated by our sector analysts. 

Thematic ESG Research: We produce broad thematic ESG research on topics that have the potential to highly impact the companies in which we invest. We have found this to be the best way to highlight the structural changes to various sectors and impacts to the companies themselves.

Active Ownership. Our in-depth research helps our commitment to active ownership. We strive to be active owners by engaging with the companies in which we invest and by taking advantage of our voting rights to help effect change. Our intent is to both improve corporate ESG disclosures as well as improve companies' ESG-related practices.

 

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TD Greystone U.S. Equity Fund

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