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Institutional Investor features Applied Finance – How a Small Manager Won a Huge Pension

Employing a strategy that is a little different from many of its peers, Applied Finance secured a mandate from GPIF — the world’s largest pension — in October, following a due diligence process that started that summer.

Applied Finance challenges the notion of some definitions of value: cheapness rooted in statistical properties of stock prices rather than the fundamental properties of a company.

Applied Finance goes beyond using traditional multiples to capture what it calls the “intrinsic value” of a company. Applied Finance measures the underlying “economic vitality” of a company, which can be compared across time, firms, and industries.

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  • Applied Finance, a thought leader in valuation and portfolio construction, is a true “value” investment management company.  Unlike the majority of firms today that focus on low multiples to define “value”, we define value as identifying companies trading below their intrinsic value.  Our Valuation Driven™ approach forms the foundation of our investment decisions...more

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