4 (A): Firm History and Ownership
Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC (“We,” “CRM,” the “Adviser,” or the “Firm”) was founded in 1973 and is a
Delaware limited liability company. CRM has been registered with the SEC since June 1983 and is an SEC-registered
investment adviser with its principal place of business in Stamford, CT. In September 2019, CRM employees
repurchased the ownership stake of CRM previously held by M&T Bank. With the closing of this transaction, CRM
once again became 100% employee owned. This agreement was reached with self-financing by CRM
employees. With the finalization of this deal, employees of CRM completed a long-held goal of repurchasing the firm
to better align our interests with those of our clients and stakeholders. We believe this transaction also enhances our
ability to retain and attract top investment talent and focus all our resources on creating value for our clients.
4 (B): Investment Advisory Services
CRM provides discretionary investment advisory services to various types of clients, as detailed further under Item
7: Types of Clients, including but not limited to separately managed accounts (“SMAs”), a family of mutual funds
(the “CRM Mutual Funds”), UCITS (the “Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn UCITS PLC”), private funds, and as sub-
adviser to the CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Collective Investment Trust (“CIT”), as well as other U.S. and non-U.S.
products that pursue several different value equity strategies, including portfolios that invest primarily in small cap
value securities, small/mid cap value securities, and mid cap value securities, in addition to an “all cap” strategy as
well as a long/short “hedged” strategy. CRM also provides non-discretionary investment
advisory services to certain
clients which receive CRM’s investment model(s) for its various investment strategies (the “Model Delivery Clients”).
As a general matter, CRM manages such investment strategies which are provided to certain Model Delivery Program
sponsors similar to its management of the same strategies implemented for CRM’s discretionary managed accounts.
For Model Delivery Clients, CRM personnel support the financial institution sponsoring the program (the “Sponsor”)
and not any underlying clients or investors of the Sponsor. In certain instances, CRM may engage third party service
providers to assist in its provision of services to clients, including but not limited to outsourced trading and account
onboarding and maintenance services. See Item 7: Types of Clients, for additional information.
CRM typically manages accounts in accordance with its overall investment style focused on a relative value-oriented
investment philosophy. Relative value is a style where CRM seeks to identify stocks we believe are underappreciated
relative to, for example, the market, their peer group and the company’s earnings potential, among other
considerations. Clients may impose restrictions on investing in certain securities as well as the type of securities for
their specific separate account.
4 (C): Firm Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we managed assets on a discretionary basis of $1,912,179,452. This amount does not include
cash derived from short sales of securities on behalf of clients. If this were included, the amount would total
$1,992,617,120. We also manage assets on a non-discretionary basis of $212,963,014. As of December 31, 2023, we
managed total assets of $2,205,580,134.