H&W employs an active, team-based investment approach driven by fundamental research and bottom-up security selection. The firm offers value equity investment strategies across the market-cap spectrum, as well as strategies that emphasize income generation. Their investment focus is on equity securities, fixed-income securities, options, derivatives and other securities, depending on the investment objective of the client. H&W seek to invest in stocks whose future prospects are misunderstood or are not fully recognized by the market. For investments in fixed income securities, H&W develops an outlook for credit markets, interest rates, currency exchange rates and the economy, analyzes individual credit and call risks, and uses other security selection techniques. The proportion of assets allocated to investment in securities with particular characteristics (such as quality, sector, interest rate or maturity) varies based on the firm's outlook for the US economy and the economies of other countries in the world, the financial markets and other factors. H&W's capital income strategies invest in equity and high yield fixed income securities that generate current income and are attractively valued. The allocation between high yield and equity can vary over time depending on where the firm identifies compelling opportunities. For hedged value strategy, H&W invests in long and short positions in securities consisting principally, but not solely, of publicly traded US and non-US equity and equity-related securities. The firm may also invest in preferred stocks, private securities, convertible securities, warrants, options (including covered and uncovered puts and calls and overthe-counter options), futures, swaps and other derivative instruments, bonds and other fixed income securities, ETFs, mutual funds and money market instruments. They also engages in short selling, margin trading, hedging and other investment strategies. H&W is a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).
