Firm Description
Moody Aldrich Partners, LLC (MAP) is a privately held multi-boutique investment firm with
businesses specializing in investment strategies for institutions and individual investors.
Formed in 1988, MAP is an SEC registered investment advisor that has provided investment
strategies to sophisticated clients for 30 years. The firm offers US and international equity
strategies through investment divisions managed by teams of experienced, successful investors.
Over time, the firm has evolved from a traditional asset manager to a multi-boutique company
with shared non-investment business services. Identifying and cultivating investment talent and
developing strategic partnerships and business ventures is a hallmark of the firm’s heritage.
Owners of MAP provide a permanent source of capital that has been used for working capital
and seed capital to numerous investment strategies. The structure of the firm’s entrepreneurial
activities has taken various forms, such as lift-outs, acquisitions, joint ventures and
seeding/acceleration deals. While each opportunity has its own unique attributes, every
endeavor pursued creates shared incentives and alignment of interests behind a common vision
of building a premier investment organization. The firm’s entrepreneurial culture emphasizes
teamwork and flexibility and a strong commitment to the highest ethical standards.
Today, MAP has interests in the following affiliated boutiques:
• Eastern Shore Capital Management (“ESCM”): Established in 2012 as a division of
MAP, ESCM is an investment boutique specializing in managing long-only US small
and smid-cap strategies on behalf of institutions and individual investors.
• Global Value Advisors (“GVA”): Established in 2018 as a division of MAP, GVA is
an investment boutique specializing in managing long-only global and international
value strategies on behalf of institutions and individual investors.
• Harvest Funds Management, LLC (“HFM”) is a subsidiary of MAP and serves as the
General Partner to private funds which have made strategic investments in independent
alternative investment boutiques.
Principal Owners
MAP is 52.5% owned by active members, William Moody (23.75), Eli Kent (23.75%), Richard
Bonzagni (5%) and 47.5% by passive member, Eyk Van Otterloo. MAP is 100% controlled by its
Board of Directors, Eli Kent and William Moody. Additionally, MAP has established Class B and
C ownership shares to provide certain members economic interests without governance rights.
The Eastern Shore division is 74% owned by active partners including, Robert Barringer, James
O’Brien, Sarah Westwood, William Moody, Eli Kent and Rich Bonzagni. The remaining 26% is
held by Eyk Van Otterloo, a passive owner of MAP. The Global Value Advisors division is
71% owned by active partners, including Philippe Rolland, Matthew Marotta, Todd Bassion,
William Moody, and Eli Kent. The remaining 29% is held by Eyk Van Otterloo, a passive
owner of MAP.
Types of Advisory Services
MAP directly and through its ESCM and GVA divisions, provides discretionary and non-
discretionary investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals and institutional
investors through separately managed accounts.
MAP, through its ESCM division, is also the investment adviser to a collective investment trust
(“CIT”), the Eastern Shore U.S. Small Cap CIT (the “ESCM CIT”). The ESCM CIT is invested
according to the Eastern Shore Capital Management Small Cap Equity strategy offered by MAP.
MAP, through its ESCM division, also offers investment advisory services as a sub-adviser to a
mutual fund.
Institutional Account Management
MAP also offers investment advisory services in the form of discretionary portfolio management
to institutional investors through advisory arrangements (“Institutional Account Management”)
directly and through its GVA and ESCM divisions. Frequently, institutional investors are
advised by investment consultants. Each institutional investor has the opportunity to select,
typically in consultation with its investment consultant, one or more of MAP’s investment
strategies.
Separately Managed Accounts (SMA)
SMA Advisory and SMA Sub-Advisory
MAP provides investment advisory services in the form of discretionary portfolio management
to certain clients, either directly (“SMA Advisory” clients) or through sub-advisory arrangements
on behalf of clients (“SMA Sub-Advisory” clients). Each SMA Advisory or SMA Sub-Advisory
client has the opportunity to select, typically in consultation with his/her/its investment
consultant or financial adviser, one or more of MAP’s investment strategies or products.
For separately managed accounts, MAP offers small cap, small/mid cap, international, emerging
markets, global and various sector focused strategies through its Portfolio Services Group (“PSG”).
SMA Advisory and SMA Sub-Advisory accounts are managed in accordance with each strategy’s
investment guidelines. SMA Advisory and SMA Sub-Advisory clients may also impose reasonable
restrictions on the management of their accounts.
Sub-Advisory Relationship
MAP has a sub-advisory agreement established with an unaffiliated registered investment
advisor to provide portfolio management services for certain PSG equity strategies. MAP
collects a management fee from the SMA Advisory clients invested in the sub-advised strategies
and pays the sub-advisor a portion of the fee in consideration for providing services.
Wrap Programs
MAP provides investment sub-advisory services in the form of discretionary portfolio
management to separately managed account programs sponsored by various broker-dealers or
registered investment advisers (each, the “Sponsor”) in “single contract” wrap fee programs
under which an all-inclusive (or “wrap”) fee is paid by the client to the Sponsor and the Sponsor
in turn pays MAP a portion of the fee collected from the wrap fee client (“Wrap Programs”).
Under MAP’s Wrap Program services, clients are provided access to MAP’s strategies and MAP
will generally execute trades on the client’s behalf through the Sponsor. There are instances,
however, where executing trades away from the Sponsor are more advantageous to the Wrap
Program client. In these instances, the Wrap Program
client will pay commissions and other
charges for trade execution purposes. See Item 12 – Brokerage Practices for additional details.
Custody, tax reporting, client reporting, trading commissions, performance monitoring and other
services are typically provided by each Sponsor. MAP may also contract directly with a Sponsor’s
client in a “dual contract” program and with the Sponsor in a single contract program. In both
the dual contract and single contract Wrap Programs in which MAP participates, the Sponsor
typically:
• assists the client in defining the client’s investment objectives based on information
provided by the client and provides the client with the opportunity to impose reasonable
restrictions on management of the account;
• determines whether the fee arrangement is suitable for the client;
• aids in the selection of an investment adviser to manage the account (or a portion of its
assets);
• periodically contacts the client to ascertain whether there have been any changes in the
client’s financial circumstances or objectives that warrant a change in the arrangement
or the manner in which the client’s assets are managed, whether the client wishes to
impose reasonable restrictions (or additional reasonable restrictions) on the management
of the account or reasonably modify existing restrictions; and
• ensures that personnel who are knowledgeable about the account are reasonably available
to the client for consultation.
Wrap Program clients generally receive all MAP disclosure documents (including Form ADV
Parts 2A and 3), as well as any required prospectuses, from their respective Sponsor.
Unified Management Accounts (UMAs)
MAP, through its ESCM division, provides recommendations, typically in the form of a “model
portfolio” to a number of unified managed account (“UMA”) program sponsors (the “UMA
Program Sponsors”). For these accounts, MAP does not have discretion and does not include the
performance of these MAP UMA relationships in its various investment composites. Trades
recommended by MAP may or may not be executed by each UMA Program Sponsor, and
MAP’s recommendations may or may not be implemented by each UMA Program Sponsor in
all of the sponsor’s client portfolios. MAP is not responsible for either trade execution or
reconciliation of these accounts.
Private Funds / Limited Partnership Management
Moody Aldrich Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “General Partner”),
through its Global Value Advisors division, is the general partner of the Global Value Advisors
Fund LP (“Limited Partnership”), a Delaware series limited partnership, and is responsible for
its overall management. The General Partner is responsible for the management of each Series’
portfolio. For more details see the Fees and Compensation, Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss and Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations sections.
MAP, through its GVA division, also serves as the investment adviser to the Limited Partnerships which
are commingled funds. These funds are described below and collectively referred to within this
Brochure as “the GVA Private Funds”: (“Global Value Advisors Fund LP – Emerging Markets
Equity Series; Global Value Advisors Fund LP – Global Equity Series; Global Value Advisors
Fund LP – International Small Cap Series). MAP may advise other registered investment
companies or private funds in the future (the “Partnerships”).
MAP, through its GVA division, continuously manages the assets of the Limited Partnerships
based on the investment goals and objectives as outlined in the Partnerships’ private placement
memorandums, respectively. The individual needs of the investors in the Limited Partnerships
are not the basis of investment decisions made by the investment advisor. Investment advice is
provided directly to the Limited Partnerships and not to the individual investors holding shares
of the funds.
ANY REFERENCE TO THE PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THIS BROCHURE SHALL NOT
CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY
INTERESTS IN THE PRIVATE FUNDS.
Please see the Type of Clients section of this brochure for more information on the types of clients
serviced. MAP provides investment advisory services primarily through the purchase and sale
of equity securities.
Tailored Relationships
MAP strategies will, at the firm’s discretion, accommodate client directed restrictions that could
cause the client’s portfolio to deviate from a model portfolio. Such portfolio restrictions may
include:
• specific stock restrictions;
• tax generation restrictions (such as no Real Estate Investment Trusts);
• sector restrictions; or,
• country specific restrictions.
All restrictions must be submitted in writing and are subject to approval by MAP, ESCM and/or
GVA.
Institutional clients may additionally provide more comprehensive investment policy statements
and portfolio structure guidelines. These guidelines may include cash and position minimum or
maximum weights, portfolio concentration, reporting or meeting requirements and proxy voting
instructions.
Privacy and Security
For privacy safeguards and security purposes, MAP has established a Privacy Notice, which is
sent to all new clients at the time of account opening. Any material changes to MAP’s Privacy
Notice will be distributed to existing clients promptly and is available upon request by contacting
us any time as described in Item 1. When applicable, a separate supplemental Privacy Notice is
distributed to Clients residing in certain states that have enacted additional privacy disclosure
obligations. In addition, the Firm has in place a Business Continuity Plan to protect the firm and
its clients in the event of a significant business disruption. To cover all aspects of the firm’s use
of technology, a Written Information Security Plan is in place which includes a detailed
cybersecurity plan.
Client Assets
As of December 31, 2022, the firm managed or advised $832.6 million for clients, with $683.1
million in discretionary assets under management, and $149.5 million in advisory-only Unified
Managed Account (“UMA”) business. Advisory-only UMA assets are those for which MAP
provides a model portfolio to the program sponsor.