About Institutional Asset Management

Serving institutional clients around the world, William Blair & Company provides comprehensive investment advisory services with a focus on quality growth companies. For more than 73 years, we have concentrated these operations in our Chicago office to foster a high degree of internal coordination, communication, and strict regulatory compliance.

Our long history of expertise in domestic growth investing has been accompanied by an enormously successful record in international investing as well as fixed-income products with various term lengths With more than $34 billion in client assets under management (as of September 30, 2008), William Blair & Company is recognized as a premier global money management firm.

William Blair & Company’s institutional investment products are designed to play a role in asset allocation strategy and generate high alpha returns with acceptable risk. Our clients’ success is attributed to product performance and our portfolio management teams’ experience and stability. The William Blair & Company philosophy of investing in quality companies and stocks is deeply ingrained in each institutional portfolio management team.

• George Greig appeared in Barron’s “Top 100” fund managers survey. The survey ranks leading managers according to risk-adjusted performance relative to category peers. George was ranked #75, and this was his 8th consecutive appearance on the list. (8/11)
• Institutional Investor featured William Blair & Company on its list of the ‘II 300’ largest U.S. managers. William Blair & Company appears at No. 92. (July/August 2008)
• Barron’s Online quoted David Fording in a ‘Weekday Trader’ column on Danaher titled “Danaher Is Ahead of the Herd.” (7/31)
• The Wall Street Journal mentioned the William Blair Growth Fund on its list of year-to-date top performers. (7/30)
• Barron’s Online featured a Q&A with David Fording on the William Blair Growth Fund in an article titled “Seeking sustainable advantage.” (7/7)
• Pensions & Investments quoted Todd McClone in an article titled “Olympic glow already fading.” (7/7)
• Morningstar reported in a “Fund Times” piece that William Blair Small Cap Growth fund has reopened and that Mike Balkin has returned as the fund’s co-manager. (7/3)

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