TAM provides investment management services to clients on a discretionary basis. The
Firm has been in business since 1986. TAM currently has employees working in the Firm’s
New York office and Austin, Texas office. As of December 31, 2023, the Firm had
approximately $1.44 billion in assets under management. TAM provides investment advice
to registered investment companies, private funds, offshore funds, individuals,
corporations, pension plans, trusts, estates, educational institutions, endowments and
foundations.
Principal Ownership
As TAM’s institutional partner, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (“AMG”), a publicly-
traded asset management company (NYSE: AMG) with equity interests in boutique
investment management firms, indirectly holds a majority equity interest in TAM. TAM’s
principals hold the remaining equity interests in the Firm. AMG also holds equity interests
in other investment management firms (“AMG Affiliates”). Further information on AMG
and the AMG Affiliates is provided in “Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and
Affiliations” of this brochure.
Advisory Services
TAM’s overall investment strategy typically concentrates on long-term value investing.
This value investing strategy seeks to identify securities of well-financed companies
(meaning companies with high quality assets and a relative absence of liabilities) selling at
a price significantly discounted to TAM’s conservative estimate of intrinsic value. TAM
may, however, offer other advisory services, engage in other investment strategies and
make other types of investments, including any not described in this Brochure, that TAM
considers appropriate, subject to each client’s agreement with TAM or other agreed-upon
restrictions.
All prospective TAM clients are required to provide detailed investment profiles which are
used by TAM to conduct a comprehensive suitability review. Many factors are considered
in a typical suitability review, and they include, but are not limited to; risk tolerance, net
worth, investor industry experience, and investor objectives. TAM advisory services are
not tailored to individual client needs, therefore, TAM will only accommodate client
specific investment restriction requests when TAM believes that they will not
unreasonably impede TAM’s ability
to manage the account consistent with the stated
strategy mandate.
TAM serves as investment adviser to a number of funds, and an affiliate of TAM acts as
general partner of a private fund for which TAM is the adviser. In such cases, TAM or its
affiliate may inquire about a client's interest in investing in such funds, from which TAM
and/or its affiliate receive compensation. Since receipt of compensation in connection with
such investments poses a conflict of interest for TAM and its affiliate (if applicable), TAM
does not ordinarily exercise investment discretion to place any clients into any funds
advised by TAM. Where a fund investor becomes a separate account client of TAM or
when a TAM separate account client invests in funds advised by TAM, its fund holdings
and separate account holdings will be maintained separately
Wrap Fee Programs
“Wrap arrangements,” “wrap fee programs,” or “wrap fee accounts” involve individually-
managed accounts for individual or institutional clients. The wrap fee accounts are offered
as part of a larger program by a “sponsor,” usually a brokerage, banking or investment
advisory firm, and managed by one or more investment advisers. TAM has an agreement
with a wrap fee program sponsor through which TAM’s services are offered as an
investment option within the wrap fee program and, accordingly, TAM provides
investment management services to those clients who select TAM as part of the program.
The program sponsor typically pays a portion of its program fee to TAM for its services.
Portfolios
TAM provides investment advisory services in the form of a model portfolio to be utilized
by a sponsor bank and/or broker dealer in an overlay program. Under the unified managed
account (UMA) programs, TAM has an agreement with the sponsor (“UMA Program
Sponsor”) and does not have any contact with the end clients (“UMA Program Clients”).
TAM provides model portfolios to UMA Programs whereby the UMA Program Sponsor
executes portfolio transactions for UMA Program Clients based on the UMA Program
Sponsors’ own investment discretion. TAM classifies these assets as “assets under
advisement” but does not include the assets in its assets under management on Form ADV
Part 1. Restrictions for client accounts in the UMA Programs are monitored entirely by the
Sponsors.