FIRST QUADRANT is an innovative boutique investment management firm serving investors around the world. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, the firm manages client assets of approximately $26.6 billion actively managed as of June 30, 2008*.

SINCE ITS INCEPTION in 1988, First Quadrant has enjoyed a distinctive reputation for excellence in investment management and research. The firm's proprietary approach derives from decades of careful examination of the interplay between financial markets. First Quadrant offers investment strategies in two main areas, EQUITIES and GLOBAL MACRO, while paying keen attention to RISK MANAGEMENT.

 

  
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  What To Make, and Not Make, of the Recent Performance of Global Macro | A number of reflections seem in order given both the investment activity of these last few days and weeks, and given a certain set of erroneous perspectives that we've observed. PDF>
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Investments & Technology, June 2007, 'I am not your father's TAA' | First Quadrant coverage of Dori Levanoni's presentation at the Intech Investment Consultant conference. PDF
   
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