Causeway provides international, global, emerging markets, small cap, and sustainable
equity investment management services primarily to institutional clients including
corporations, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, superannuation funds, public
retirement plans, Taft-Hartley pension plans, endowments and foundations, mutual
funds and other collective investment vehicles, charities, private trusts and funds, model
and SMA programs, and other institutions. As explained in more detail in Item 8 below,
Causeway uses fundamental value equity and quantitative methods to manage its
investment strategies. Causeway is organized as a Delaware limited liability company
and began operations in June 2001. Causeway is headquartered in Los Angeles,
California, conducting its portfolio management, research, trading, operations, human
resources, client service, business development, marketing production, technology,
investment technology, , finance, legal, risk, fund administration, and compliance
functions from that location. Causeway also has an office in Dallas, Texas, conducting
portfolio management, research, human resources, technology, and investment
technology functions from that location, an office in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,
conducting business development functions from the location, and a representative
office in Melbourne, Australia, conducting client service and business development
functions from that office. Causeway is wholly-owned by its parent holding company,
Causeway Capital Holdings LLC. Sarah Ketterer and Harry Hartford are the ultimate
control persons of Causeway. Ms. Ketterer serves as Causeway’s chief executive officer
and Mr. Hartford serves as Causeway’s president. Ms. Ketterer and Mr. Hartford hold
their interests in the parent holding company through estate planning vehicles, through
which they exercise their voting power.
Causeway’s main investment strategies are:
• international value
• international value select
• global value
• emerging markets
• international opportunities and global opportunities
• international small cap
• global small cap
• concentrated
• China equity
• global sustainable leaders and global sustainable equity
In addition, Causeway manages American Depositary Receipt (“ADR”), ADR model,
socially responsible, and other versions of certain of its strategies. The strategies
primarily invest in international and U.S. equity securities using fundamental “value”
and quantitative investment techniques, or ADRs of international securities. See Item 8
below for more information on the investment techniques used for these strategies.
Causeway manages accounts in the strategies described in Item 8 below. However,
Causeway tailors investment advice to specific objectives and restrictions
agreed with
each client based on the client’s investment objective and its financial situation.
Causeway may agree with clients to impose restrictions on investing in certain securities
or types of securities.
Causeway cannot guarantee that a client’s investment objectives will be achieved, and
Causeway does not guarantee the future performance of any client’s account or any
specific level of performance, the success of any investment decision or strategy, or the
success of the overall management of any account. The investment decisions Causeway
makes for clients are subject to risks, and investment decisions will not always be
profitable. See Item 8 below for more information about these risks, which clients
should review carefully before deciding to engage Causeway.
Causeway offers investment advisory services through separately managed account
single-contract and dual-contract programs (“SMA programs”) and model programs
(“model programs”), typically sponsored by broker-dealers or other financial
institutions, through which multiple underlying customers access Causeway’s advisory
services. In model programs, Causeway recommends aggregate model securities
weightings and related information to the program sponsor, and the sponsor or its
delegate (rather than Causeway) executes transactions and provides custody services
for the underlying customers. For SMA programs, Causeway supplies investment advice
to SMA accounts within mandates selected by clients. For these programs, Causeway
may communicate information to a third-party vendor which in turn processes the
information and communicates it to program sponsors. For its services to model and
single-contract SMA programs, Causeway receives a portion of the wrap fee charged by
program sponsors to underlying customers of the sponsor. For dual-contract SMA
programs, Causeway receives the fee set forth in the client’s investment management
agreement with Causeway, which are separate from fees charged by the program
sponsor. The programs’ underlying customers may be clients of Causeway for other
purposes under the Advisers Act. Please see “Trade Allocation – Non-Execution Clients”
in Item 12 below for a description of differences in the advisory services provided to
model programs compared to services provided to SMA program clients.
As of December 31, 2023, Causeway managed approximately $40,571,254,812 in total
assets on a discretionary basis and approximately $5,021,075,946 in total assets on a
non-discretionary basis. Certain of Causeway’s separate accounts invest in mutual funds
sponsored by Causeway. The discretionary assets listed above include Causeway-
sponsored fund assets held in separate accounts managed by Causeway ($227,899,253)
and exclude Causeway’s investments in private funds sponsored by Causeway
($9,362,405).