MCRAE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC

Frontier Capital Management Co is a private investment management company that was founded in 1980 and is based out of Boston. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Affiliated Managers Group, which it became an affiliate of in 2000, with the rest of the ownership split amongst employees of the company. Frontier Capital Management Co’s investment philosophy focuses on the belief that “over time stock prices tend to follow earnings progress and that stocks must be purchased and owned at reasonable valuations” and that active fundamental research that is done internally will generate the best results in the long term. The company utilizes a fundamental analysis with a bottom up stock picking approach to make its investment decisions, focusing on public equity markets. For growth strategies, Frontier Capital Management looks for companies that have above average secular growth prospects and various competitive advantages such as proprietary products, differentiated value services, or patents. For its value strategies, the company utilizes its criteria based on price to sales, return on equity, and P/B values of less than 3 times. For all its strategies, Frontier Capital Management sells its stocks when its price objectives are reached, when fundamental conditions have changed for the worse, and then the company becomes fully invested in a new opportunity that has a better appreciation potential. The company currently has 38 employees with 17 of them being investment professionals. Frontier Capital Management has a total of almost $14 billion in assets under management spread across 149 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts except for 2. The company’s total accounts held increased significantly from 2010 to 330 by 2014 before dropping down to its current amount, and its total assets under management has increased significantly from its $4.4 billion amount five years prior to over three times that amount today. The strategies that the company offers include its Small Cap Growth, Capital Appreciation, Mid Cap Growth, All Cap Research, SMID Cap Research, and Small Cap Value.