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Product Profile

  • Number of accounts 2
  • Product assets US$29.6 million
  • Years managed 37
  • BenchmarkS&P 500 Index

Key Investment Professionals

Joanne Howard
  • Joanne Howard, CFA
  • Co-CIO, Senior Portfolio Manager
  • U.S. Large Cap Core Growth Equities
  • Investment Career Began: 1964
Ralph Edelman
  • Raphael EdelmanCo-CIO,
  • Senior Portfolio Manager
  • U.S. Large Cap Core Growth
  • Equities
  • Joined Firm: 2004
  • Investment Career Began: 1984
Peter Goetz
  • Peter Goetz, CFASenior Portfolio
  • Manager
  • Joined Firm: 1999
  • Investment Career Began: 1985

Overview

RCM’s long-term, tax aware, large capitalization growth investment approach for private clients seeks to generate superior returns over a full market cycle by investing primarily in U.S. companies that possess superior management, strong balance sheets, differentiated products or services, substantial unit growth, strong commitments to research and development, and a steady stream of new products or services.

Portfolio Construction

The RCM Advantage

Performance**

Representative Account Characteristics - Supplemental Information

Beta

1.0

P/E (Next 12 Mo. EPS)

16.2x

Earnings Growth (Next 3-5 yrs)

16.9%

P/E (Next 12 Mo.) to Growth (Next 3-5 yrs)

1.0x

Wgtd Avg Market Cap

US$87.1 billion

Number of Holdings

37

Top Ten Holdings

Schlumberger Ltd

6.4%

Apple Inc

5.2%

Hewlett-Packard Co

4.4%

McDonald's Corp

3.8%

Fluor Corp

3.7%

Abbott Laboratories

3.6%

Procter & Gamble Co

3.6%

Microsoft Corp

3.3%

Walt Disney Co (The)

3.2%

Devon Energy Corp

3.1%

Sector Composition (% of Portfolio and Benchmark)† - Supplemental Information

Performance Composite Statistics

 

 

 

 

Period

 

Composite

Gross

Return

(%)

 

Composite

Net

Return

(%)

S&P 500

Index

Return

(%)

 

 

No. of

Clients/

Accounts

 

 

Composite

Dispersion

(%)

 

Period-End

Total

Assets

(US$ M)

 

 

Total Firm

Assets

(US$ M)

2007

16.33

15.81

5.49

2

N/A♦

32

168,131

2006

3.82

3.49

15.79

4

N/A♦

463

164,876

2005

7.60

7.21

4.91

15

0.7

548

147,527

2004

8.22

7.79

10.88

25

0.4

559

128,432

2003

20.39

19.92

28.68

34

0.5

510

123,142

2002

-17.57

-17.94

-22.10

42

0.7

371

111,780

2001

-21.08

-21.39

-11.89

45

1.6

544

141,056

2000

-5.31

-5.64

-9.10

24

1.6

699

82,483

1999

45.22

44.72

21.04

34

4.8

825

84,715

1998

45.99

45.44

28.58

23

9.2

489

64,825