In Distinctively Active Investing: Profiles & Perspectives, you’ll learn how Touchstone, its leaders, and its portfolio managers are unique. We’ll bring you in-depth interviews with the people who are actively engaged in leading and managing the Touchstone funds. Hear them discuss why they were attracted to the financial services profession, what motivates them, and how they define success. Touchstone Investments is a Distinctively Active mutual fund company that delivers product solutions and programs to advisors to help them cultivate, build and manage their businesses. Touchstone Investments recognizes that not all mutual fund companies are created equal. Our commitment to being Distinctively Active means the employment of a fully integrated and rigorous process for identifying and partnering with asset managers who sub-advise our mutual funds.
In this episode, we catch up with Blake Moore, President and Chief Executive Officer of Touchstone Investments. Follow along as Mary Mock explores Blake's career journey that took him from the NFL to the investment world and hear what he has learned along the way.
Our guest today is David Harris, the Chief Investment Officer and President of Asset Management at Rockefeller Capital Management. We'll learn about his personal story as well as the investment philosophy behind Rockefeller, and discuss what he believes the future holds for ESG investing and active management.
Our guest today is Art DeGaetano, CIO and Founder of Bramshill Investments. Mary Mock will talk with Art about his career journey as well as his investment philosophy at Bramshill.
Our guest today is Chris Mathewson of Ares Management. Chris is a partner and portfolio manager of U.S. Liquid Credit in the Ares Credit Group, where he is primarily responsible for managing Ares' U.S. high yield credit strategies. We're talking with Chris today about his personal career journey, as well as what gives Ares their investment edge.
Today we're talking with Steve Goddard and Brian Campbell of The London Company. Steve is the founder of The London Company and heads the firm's investment management teams. Steve and Brian are portfolio managers of the Touchstone Mid Cap Fund, as well as the Touchstone Large Cap Fund, and the Touchstone Small Cap Fund. They'll be discussing The London Company's investment strategy, as well as their personal backgrounds and career trajectories.
Our guest today is Ashraf Haque, co-portfolio manager for the Touchstone-Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund. Today we'll learn about Sands Capital Management's investment philosophies as well as Ashraf's personal and career story.
Our guest today is Will Muggia, CEO and CIO of Westfield Capital Management, a growth equity boutique based in Boston. And since their founding in 1989, Westfield has used their GARP philosophy to build concentrated equity portfolios through bottom up stock selection. Their sector specialists evaluate businesses up and down the market cap spectrum, and they are experts in their respective space.
Our guest is Martijn Cremers, who we talked about in episode 01 when discussing Active Share. He is the Martin J. Gillen Dean and Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. His 2009 academic research introduced us to the concept of active share. In April 2020, Martijn sat down with Touchstone's Tim Paulin.
Mary Mock interviews the president of Touchstone Investments, Steve Graziano. Mary has known Steve since he joined Touchstone back in 2009 and they had a great time chatting about his accomplishments and career story from company headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. In this podcast, we want to bring the people in our company to life, and Steve provides some great background to not only his life but Touchstone Investments as a company.