Services - Altman Investment Management

Active Management for the Long Haul

At Altman Investment Management, we actively manage separate portfolios, allocating assets between equity and fixed income investments, tailored to each investor’s needs and objectives. We offer a wealth of experience and investment acumen to help our clients reach their goal – whether it’s to retire in comfort, to build generational wealth or to ensure the perpetuation of an endowment.

Our clients have come to us to manage all of their investments, just their equity holdings, or only their fixed income holdings – or to determine an appropriate allocation into a balanced approach. As active managers, we make strategic changes in investment holdings to take advantage of relative value opportunities that we discover. With us, you can trust that your assets will be managed with a disciplined, prudent and independent approach – and with the attention you deserve.

Delivering Superior Performance Over Time

We are proud to share that our performance numbers have maintained a strong competitive position within our investment programs, year after year for nearly two decades since our founding. Our equity, fixed income and balanced programs have been ranked within the Informa Investment Solutions database, and been recognized as one of the Top Guns “Best of the Best.” View our latest press release.

Our strong performance record, coupled with an unwavering commitment to deliver long-term strategies that accomplishes client investment objectives, makes us a valuable partner to help preserve and grow your wealth.

Equity Investing

Offering a value-oriented—often contrarian—approach to equity investing, our mandate is to achieve consistent long-term performance with below-average risk. We seek to do this by investing in companies with strong balance sheets that are temporarily “out of favor,” and substantially undervalued. These are businesses that in our opinion sell at significant discounts relative to their intrinsic value due to near-term unfavorable conditions. This disciplined investment approach typically results in better-than-average performance over a period of time.

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Our value management philosophy dictates that:

We demonstrate rational, independent thinking, since the markets are often inefficient and subject to crowd psychology.
We focus on market sectors with potential catalysts for change—economic trends and/or valuation characteristics. To do this we combine top-down analysis and sector weighting with bottom-up analysis and security selection.
We buy stocks at perceived lower prices relative to current and potential earnings—and relative to asset values—in an effort to minimize downside risk and enhance opportunity for profit.
We seize buying opportunities during periods of poor performance and low expectations and wait for the cycle to turn.

Fixed Income Investing

On the debt side, and as an active intermediate fixed income manager of taxable and tax-free securities, our mandate is also to achieve consistent long-term performance with below-average risk. It is our role to provide clients with a growing stream of income in an investment framework of liquidity and capital preservation.

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We seek to achieve this objective by:

Overweighting fixed income alternatives with appealing interest rate sensitivity relative to economic assumptions and historical valuation comparison
Investing in U.S. government, corporate, and mortgage-backed securities, as well as municipal bonds that are often state-specific to enhance the after-tax return
Utilizing a multi-disciplined approach in analyzing duration, yield curve, convexity, and sector allocation to determine relative attractiveness
Developing diversified portfolios with particular attention to issue selection

Balanced Portfolio Strategy

Our balanced approach to investing creates the optimum balance between both equity and fixed income classes, as we pursue the best performance relative to risk.

Achieving a balance:

Our understanding of how the markets correlate with each other is the foundation for building balanced portfolios that align with our clients’ goals and risk tolerance.
Our fixed income and equity managers apply their collaborated expertise creating a balanced portfolio comprised of both value-oriented stocks and fixed income securities.

High Income Strategy

When generation of high income is the primary goal, our managers implement a high-yield equity strategy within the framework of our core investment process and philosophy.

We achieve this solution by:

Emphasizing market sectors and individual securities that pay higher dividends.
Actively reinvesting cash dividends back into the market or distributing income when necessary.
Implementing a high-income solution utilizing an all equity or balanced approach.