Edward DeArias

HIMCO manages investment portfolios using a balanced top-down, bottom-up investment process, with multiple levels of investment input, within a governance framework that is designed to ensure thematic consistency. They offer a wide range of asset classes and manage fixed income and alternative investment strategies. The Investment Strategy Committee (ISC) has overall responsibility for all aspects of the investment process.

Functions as a College/University

Provides brokerage services

CenterSquare Investment Management provides advisory services to their clients through investment in diversified portfolios of publicly traded real estate related securities of companies involved in the ownership, management and/or development of income producing and for-sale real estate. These companies include listed REITs and listed REOCs. The firm's primary investment objective is total return, consisting of dividends and capital appreciation. CenterSquare's three main strategies include investments in U.S. real estate securities, global real estate securities and global ex-U.S. real estate securities. Their investment approach includes top-down market/country selection and bottom-up underwriting of properties, companies and management teams.

CenterSquare employs long-only strategies and invest client assets in global equity securities of companies in the real estate industry, including real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate operating companies (REOCs), and global equity securities of infrastructure businesses located in various countries throughout the world, including emerging market countries. The selection of property types and geographic regions is supported by the firm’s top-down economic and capital markets forecasts. They incorporate bottom-up research on private and public capital markets, national and regional economic trends and regional real estate submarkets into analysis and decision making throughout all stages of the property investment lifecycle, including acquisition, financing, leasing and disposition.