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Our Capabilities & Investment Disciplines

Resources to provide solutions for our clients

Our Capabilities Answer Diverse Client Needs

Regardless of a client's goal, our investment capabilities help provide financial solutions designed to match their goals. In addition, we have expertise and dedicated resources available in every market we serve.

Global Institutional Distribution

DC plan sponsors

Defined benefit plans

Corporate and public plans

Endowments and foundations

Multiemployer plans

Sovereign wealth

Institutional consultants

Intermediary Distribution

Wirehouses

Regional and independent broker/dealers

RIAs and fee-based advisors

Insurance broker/dealers

Banks

Sub-advised relationships

DCIO Distribution

Retirement advisory firms

DC plan recordkeepers

Insurance companies

Direct Sales & Service

Individual investors

Employer plans: participants and plan sponsors for business retirement, education and healthcare plans

Education savings: KS 529 sponsor

Self-directed brokerage

Investment Disciplines

CIO

Victor Zhang is senior vice president and chief investment officer for American Century Investments®. In this role, Mr. Zhang oversees the discipline CIOs and investment teams managing client assets across the firm's various disciplines. This group is comprised of more than 190 investment professionals, including portfolio managers, analysts, traders and researchers.

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Victor Zhang
Victor Zhang

Chief Investment Officer

Senior Vice President

Investment Teams

Our management teams are guided by well-defined, repeatable investment processes and are dedicated to fully invested, active management approaches. We offer a comprehensive range of investment strategies for our clients.

1971

Discipline Inception

63

Investment Professionals*

22 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Global Growth Equity

Our global growth equity team constructs portfolios of diverse holdings by identifying and investing in companies demonstrating accelerating earnings and other fundamentals. We believe our acceleration factors allow us to more effectively identify companies in the beginning stages of their growth cycle. This, combined with detailed fundamental analysis and a strict buy/sell discipline, is designed to help us achieve our goal of excess returns over the long-run.

Discipline CIO

Keith Lee, CFA

Investment Capabilities
  • U.S, Non-U.S., Global

  • Large Cap

  • Small-Mid Cap

  • Small Cap

  • Developed Markets

  • Emerging Markets

Primary Locations

New York, NY
Kansas City, MO

1993

Discipline Inception

30

Investment Professionals*

16 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Global Value Equity

Our global value equity investment strategies are built on the belief that undervalued businesses have the potential to provide solid, risk-adjusted investment performance. We use fundamental research to identify and invest in quality companies that we believe are trading below their fair market value.

Discipline CIO

Kevin Toney, CFA

Investment Capabilities
  • U.S., Non-U.S.

  • Large Cap

  • Mid Cap

  • Small Cap

  • Real Estate

  • Market Neutral

Primary Location

Kansas City, MO

1990

Discipline Inception

6

Investment Professionals*

20 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Disciplined Equity

Our disciplined equity product line offers a variety of investment strategies focused on producing superior risk-adjusted returns relative to their benchmarks. Our investment strategies systematically capture behavioral and other market inefficiencies through an unbiased, multi-factor approach in a structured, risk-managed process.

Discipline Co-CIOs

Peruvemba Satish, Ph.D., CFA

Stephen Quance

Investment Capabilities
  • U.S., Non-U.S., Global

  • Large Cap

  • Small Cap

  • Market Neutral

  • Short-Extension

Primary Location

Santa Clara, CA

1972

Discipline Inception

51

Investment Professionals*

23 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Global Fixed Income

Our global fixed-income strategies seek to achieve superior performance through the active identification and selection of sectors and securities within a relative value, risk-aware framework. We believe this approach may generate consistency of investment performance and risk-adjusted excess returns over time.

Discipline Co-CIOs

John Lovito

Charles Tan

Investment Capabilities
  • U.S., Non-U.S., Global

  • Core Fixed

  • Core Plus

  • Inflation-Linked

  • Emerging Markets

Primary Locations

Santa Clara, CA
New York, NY

1988

Discipline Inception

11

Investment Professionals*

22 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Multi-Asset Strategies

Our multi-asset strategies investment team manages multi-asset class portfolios combining stocks, bonds and money market assets. They aim to optimize returns for two kinds of portfolios: portfolios that target specific levels of risk exposure and portfolios that manage risk exposure toward a target date.

Discipline CIO

Rich Weiss

Investment Capabilities
  • Target Date

  • Target Risk

  • Income Solutions

  • Volatility Management

  • Custom Solutions

Primary Location

Santa Clara, CA

2019

Discipline Inception

4

Investment Professionals*

21 Years

Average Industry Experience*

Private Equity

Our private investments team seeks out companies that aim to deliver advancements in clean air, food, water, shelter, education, healthcare, sanitation, and climate and environmental sustainability. When they find companies that align with their impact vision, they go beyond due diligence and take the time needed to build relationships grounded in shared vision, transparency, and mutual accountability.

Investment Team

Anthony Arnerich

Nicholas Walrod

Joe Biller

Jacob Pflaum

Rachael Ager

Investment Capabilities
  • Private equity healthcare companies

  • Private equity climate-change companies

Primary Locations

Portland, OR
Kansas City, MO

*Data as of 12/31/2023.

There is no guarantee the funds will achieve their objectives.