Employing 160 individuals including 59 investment professional, Boston Partners specializes in traditional value investing, with an investment process & philosophy that was established more than 25 years ago. The firms process systematically blends fundamental research with quantitative screening to identify undervalued stocks throughout the capitalization spectrum. Boston Partners offers distinctive investment capabilities. The core offerings, both long only and long/short value equities use an investment approach that was developed by the firm’s founders in the 1980s. The key Investment professionals have worked together since the founding of Boston Partners in 1995 and years before at a prior firm, where the investment philosophy was established. Boston Partners began managing long/short portfolios in 1997, a natural extension of the investment process. This process focuses on companies that comprise the tails of the valuation distribution. It is within these less efficient corners of the global equity universe that leads the valuation driven process to find both overvalued short candidates, and undervalued long candidates for client portfolios. For most of the firm’s history the ability to uncover alpha potential, both long and short, while avoiding many pitfalls of growth-driven euphoria, has shown to preserve and grow clients’ capital. The long/short equity offerings currently exceed $5 billion, spanning two domestic equity offerings, International, Global and Emerging Markets. Like the long only strategies, the hedged offerings rely on proven asset selection, driven by a common valuation-based philosophy to drive returns.