Sanders Capital, LLC

Sanders Capital is an investment management company that is owned by its employees. The company was founded in 2009 by Lew Alan Sanders, who is still active with the company acting as its CEO and co-CIO, and is based out of New York. Sanders Capital conducts its research both internally and externally and utilizes both fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investment decisions. The firm utilizes extensive field research and a disciplined valuation process to locate securities or assets where “expected internal return meets or exceeds return targets of the services.” Sanders Capital invests in a variety of public equity, derivatives, and fixed income markets on a global scale, focusing on the value stocks of large cap companies. The company currently invests most heavily in the finance, information technology, and health care sectors, each making up approximately a quarter of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the consumer discretionary, industrials, and consumer staples sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing amount allocated. The company currently holds over $17 billion in total assets under management spread across 60 accounts, all of which are discretionary except for 5, which make up approximately $400 million of its assets under management. Both of the company’s total number of accounts and total assets under management have been growing since its inception, with total number of accounts rising from 3 in the first year of its operations to its current amount and its total assets under management growing from $3 billion in its first year of operations to well over 5 times that amount today. The company caters to a variety of clients, including pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, and investment advisors, which each make up approximately a quarter of its clientele, and many others to a lesser degree. Sanders Capital currently offers its Value Equity Portfolios and All Asset Value Portfolios services.