Crawford Investment Counsel is an independent investment manager providing high quality portfolios since 1980.
Why Dividends?
Investing in dividend-paying stocks is an excellent way to pursue your investment objectives. Individual investors value the ability of dividends to provide income. Dividends also have the potential to help provide downside protection in difficult market environments. Crawford Investment Counsel, The Advisor for the Crawford Mutual Funds, employs dividends in each of its equity investment strategies. A company’s dividend history plays a vital role in identifying companies with the characteristics the Advisor seeks – quality, consistency, and stability. Through the Crawford Mutual Funds, investors can access the same dividend-oriented investment philosophy and strategies offered to The Advisor’s institutional and private clients through separate accounts.
Large Cap Dividend Fund
Investment Objective: The investment objective of the Crawford Large Cap Dividend Fund is total return. Total return is comprised of both capital appreciation and income.
The value-oriented investment discipline pursued by the Fund emphasizes quality, consistency and stability. When selecting portfolio companies, the research process starts with a universe of companies that have at least a ten-year history of paying and/or growing dividends.
The Advisor then selects a portfolio of companies it believes are undervalued that present an attractive trade-off between risk and return.
The Advisor seeks to buy high quality securities at attractive valuations and identifies a catalyst that is expected to produce superior return.
The Fund’s assets are invested primarily in common stocks of small capitalization companies that demonstrate a consistent pattern of earnings and dividend growth.
The Fund invests primarily in companies with market capitalizations within the range of market capitalization of the companies appearing in the Russell 2000 Index.
The Advisor believes small capitalization stocks are prone to inefficient pricing. It seeks to exploit these inefficiencies through a systematic, fundamental, longer-term investment process focused on above-average companies trading at attractive valuations.
The Advisor looks to invest long-term in companies with sound management, strong balance sheets, and the ability to produce consistent earnings and dividends.
The Advisor utilizes a bottom-up, value-oriented approach to stock selection, focusing on company fundamentals, in an effort to identify stocks of companies where the market prices do not reflect their true values. The Advisor’s equity investment team works together to identify appropriate stocks.
Investment Objective: The investment objective of the Crawford Multi-Asset Income Fund is to provide current income.
The Fund invests primarily in dividend paying common stocks, preferred stocks, corporate bonds, U.S. government securities, convertible bonds and real estate investment trusts (REITs).
The Fund plans to invest in high yield, dividend paying stocks across the capitalization spectrum.
The Fund may invest in bonds of all maturities. The Fund’s maturity strategy will be heavily influenced by yield opportunities, which will be balanced by interest rate risk.
The Advisor seeks to provide diversified exposure across income producing assets. Within each asset class, the Advisor places an emphasis on the relative quality among the options available. The Advisor also assesses each security’s risk profile and attempts to balance the Fund’s holdings across the four primary risk categories of market risk, interest rate risk, oil/energy price risk and credit risk.
The Fund emphasizes income over capital appreciation.
The Advisor utilizes a bottom-up approach to security selection.
With approximately $7.7 billion in assets managed for institutions, private clients and their advisors (as of 12/31/2023), Crawford Investment Counsel is an organization with substantial resources in research, investment, portfolio management, and client service.
High level of client retention from sound investment results, risk management, and high level of client service.
An objective of consistency, downside protection, and income across all investment strategies.
Multiple generations in place to run the firm on its founding principles.
“Our investment strategies focus on high-quality and fundamentally-sound securities that are well-positioned for the longer term. Providing excellent downside protection is an essential part of our investment approach.”
John H. Crawford, III Chairman and Chief Investment Officer
Crawford Investment Team
John H. Crawford, IV, CFA
Managing Director of Equity Investments
Portfolio Manager: Large Cap Dividend Fund Small Cap Dividend Fund Multi-Asset Income Fund
32 Years
Experience
30 Years
With Crawford
Jon Christiansen, CFA
Director of Dividend Growth Strategy
Portfolio Manager: Large Cap Dividend Fund
23 Years
Experience
7 Years
With Crawford
Boris Kuzmin, CFA
Director of Small Cap Strategy
Portfolio Manager: Small Cap Dividend Fund
16 Years
Experience
16 Years
With Crawford
Aaron R. Foresman, CFA
Director of Managed Income Strategy
Portfolio Manager: Multi-Asset Income Fund
15 Years
Experience
6 Years
With Crawford
How to Invest
To begin the process of creating a new account, you may access a new account application from the tabs to the below.
Taxable Account Applications
Once completed, please print and mail it to: Crawford Funds P.O. Box 46707 Cincinnati, OH 45246
Before you invest in one or more of the Crawford Mutual Funds, you should review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund, including its statement of additional information (SAI) and most recent reports to shareholders here or by calling (800) 431-1716.
Minimum Initial Investment: Crawford Large Cap Dividend Fund (CDGIX – $10,000; CDGCX – $2,500) Crawford Small Cap Dividend Fund (CDOFX – $2,500) Crawford Multi-Asset Income Fund (CMALX – $10,000)
There is no minimum amount for subsequent investments.
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