Product Overview
The Crawford Dividend Growth Strategy seeks to provide long-term total return outperformance with below-market risk measured by standard deviation vs. the Russell 1000 Value Index.
Investment Philosophy
- In a world of perpetual uncertainty, long-term investment success requires patience and a process designed to deliver downside protection.
- An established dividend-paying history provides an important indicator of the quality characteristics of business consistency and financial strength.
- Investing in quality, dividend-paying companies mitigates risk while empowering upside participation to enable long-term outperformance.
Strategy Overview
- We believe that a company’s dividend history is a key initial indicator of quality and seek to invest in companies with a demonstrated ten-year history of consistent and growing dividends.
- Our fundamental, bottom-up investment process is focused on uncovering companies with differentiated business models, strong balance sheets, consistent cash flow generation, high returns on invested capital, effective management, and shareholder-friendly capital allocation.
- The goal of our investment process is to construct a diversified portfolio capable of participating in up markets while significantly protecting capital in down markets.
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Firm Overview
Crawford Investment Counsel is an Atlanta-based investment firm focused on the management of significant assets for both private and institutional investors throughout the U.S. The firm is an independent and 100% employee-owned and operated S-Corporation with no outside affiliations.
Crawford was founded in 1980 with an investment philosophy solely focused on high-quality investments. The firm has consistently maintained its focus on quality and non-profit portfolio management, and it has grown to over fifty employees and over $8 Billion in assets under management over its four decades of history.
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Crawford Investment Counsel, Inc. (“Crawford”) is an independent investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. More information about Crawford Investment Counsel, including our investment strategies, fees and objectives, can be found in Crawford’s Form ADV Part 2A and Form CRS, available at www.crawfordinvestment.com/.