Frontier manages equity portfolios generally on a discretionary basis. The Firm has been in
business since 1980. Frontier currently has 41 employees working in the Firm’s sole office in
Boston. As of December 31, 2023, Frontier had approximately $10.1 billion in assets under
management. Frontier principally serves as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to various
institutional investors, including, but not limited to, corporate and public pension and profit-
sharing plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, municipalities, other public and
private institutions, mutual funds, collective investment trusts and private investment funds
sponsored and managed by Frontier (referred to collectively as “clients” in this Brochure).
Please see Item 7 of this Brochure for more information with respect to Frontier’s clients.
Principal Ownership
Frontier’s institutional partner, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (“AMG”), holds a majority
equity interest in Frontier, with Frontier employees holding the remaining ownership interests.
AMG’s equity interest in Frontier is structured so that Frontier maintains operational autonomy
in managing its business. AMG, a publicly-traded asset management company (NYSE: AMG),
also holds equity interests in other investment management firms (“AMG Affiliates”). Further
information on both AMG and AMG Affiliates is provided in “Item 10 – Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
Advisory Services
Frontier is an investment manager specializing in growth and value equity portfolios for
institutions. Our primary focus is our internally generated fundamental research. Through in-
depth “bottom up” analysis, we identify companies that we believe have the potential to show
above average returns for our clients' portfolios. Our team of investment professionals provides
a wide range of industry coverage and individual company analysis.
As an asset manager for our clients, Frontier recognizes that all of our clients are unique and that,
therefore, their investment needs may be different. As such, we may modify our primary
investment strategies, as necessary, to meet the goals that our clients specify, in an effort to
accommodate the particular investment objectives and accompanying restrictions requested by
our clients. At the commencement of the client relationship, each of our clients executes an
investment management agreement, which sets forth their
investment objectives, investment
strategy and any investment restrictions that will be applicable to our management of the assets
in the client’s account. Prior to the execution of the agreement, we review requested objectives
and restrictions and work with the client as needed to refine these objectives and restrictions to
both meet the client’s needs and provide us with sufficient discretion to properly invest the
client’s assets. In some instances, certain investment restrictions imposed by a client may
increase the client account’s concentration in certain sectors, securities, or cash instruments, for
periods of time, especially in comparison to other client accounts following a similar investment
strategy with limited or no investment restrictions.
A small number of clients are privately offered investment funds sponsored and managed by
Frontier (“Private Funds”) that are available only to qualified institutional and individual
investors (“Private Fund Investors”). With respect to each Private Fund, which commingles the
contributions of all investors in a single portfolio managed on their behalf, the investment
objectives and guidelines are described in the Private Fund’s offering documents.
Frontier also provides investment advice not involving discretionary management services, such
as diversified manager allocation products, which include the provision of a model portfolio. In
these instances, another manager is the discretionary investment manager, has investment
discretion over the accounts, and is responsible for monitoring the individual needs of the client.
Frontier amends and updates the model portfolios from time to time and provides updated
information to the sponsor. These updates are typically communicated after Frontier has
completed trading activity in that security on behalf of clients for whom Frontier has trading
discretion. Therefore, discretionary managers of these model portfolios will typically not obtain
the same level of or as timely an execution as if Frontier had investment discretion over these
client accounts. Accordingly, the discretionary manager may experience performance and other
differences from similarly managed accounts advised by Frontier.
Assets Under Management
As noted above, as of December 31, 2023, Frontier’s client assets under management total
(“AUM”) was approximately $10.1 billion. Please see Frontier’s Form ADV Part 1A – Item 5.F
for more information.