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.
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.
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 Co-CIOs
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
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
Investment Capabilities
U.S., Non-U.S.
Large Cap
Mid Cap
Small Cap
Real Estate
Market Neutral
Primary Location
Kansas City, MO
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
Investment Capabilities
U.S., Non-U.S., Global
Large Cap
Small Cap
Market Neutral
Short-Extension
Primary Location
Santa Clara, CA
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
Investment Capabilities
U.S., Non-U.S., Global
Core Fixed
Core Plus
Inflation-Linked
Emerging Markets
Primary Locations
Santa Clara, CA
New York, NY
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
Investment Capabilities
Target Date
Target Risk
Income Solutions
Volatility Management
Custom Solutions
Primary Location
Santa Clara, CA
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
Investment Capabilities
Private equity healthcare companies
Private equity climate-change companies
Primary Locations
Portland, OR
Kansas City, MO
There is no guarantee the funds will achieve their objectives.