Promethos Capital was established in 2019 as a limited liability company under the laws of the
state of Delaware to provide investment management services. Promethos Capital is employee-
owned and managed. Promethos Capital is a “Women Owned" firm. It is beneficially owned by
Iva Kalus-Bystricky, and Joseph Sylvester.
Promethos Capital provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services to
institutional and individual clients. Under a discretionary arrangement, subject to the investment
objectives, guidelines, and limitations of the account, Promethos Capital is granted full power by
the client to supervise and direct all of the investment of assets in the client’s account, select
broker-dealers to execute securities transactions and to place securities transactions in the client’s
account without prior consultation with the client. Under a non‐ discretionary arrangement,
Promethos Capital offers buy/sell/hold recommendations and the client or the client’s financial
advisor is responsible for making the decision to implement the recommendations and to select the
broker-dealer to execute the transaction. Non-discretionary clients include participants in certain
model account and clients who have retained trading authority over the account. See Item 7. Types
of Clients below for additional information.
Promethos Capital currently offers the following investment strategies:
The Global Equity Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing
globally in a diversified portfolio of companies that exhibit attractive risk/return profiles.
Emphasis is on investing in companies that offer favorable valuation, earnings quality,
capital deployment, and investor sentiment characteristics, and have business models with
sustainable competitive advantage. The Strategy may invest in up to 20% of total assets in
Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI
benchmark within a risk-controlled framework.
The International Equity (Global Ex‐US Equity) Strategy seeks to provide long-term
capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of non-US companies that
exhibit attractive risk/return profiles. The Strategy may invest up to 30% of total assets in
Emerging Markets. Emphasis is on investing in companies that offer favorable valuation,
earnings quality, capital deployment, and investor sentiment characteristics, and have
business models with sustainable competitive advantage. The Strategy seeks to deliver
returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI ex U.S. benchmark within a risk-controlled
framework.
The International EAFE Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by
investing in a diversified portfolio of non-US, developed market companies that exhibit
attractive risk/return profiles. Emphasis is on investing in companies that offer favorable
valuation, earnings quality, capital deployment, and investor sentiment
characteristics,
and have business models with sustainable competitive advantage. The Strategy seeks to
deliver returns in excess of the MSCI EAFE benchmark within a risk-controlled
framework.
The Global Climate Resilience Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation
by investing globally in a diversified portfolio of global developed market companies that
exhibit attractive risk/return profiles. Emphasis is on investing in companies that offer
favorable valuation, earnings quality, capital deployment, and investor sentiment
characteristics, and have business models with sustainable competitive advantage. The
Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI World benchmark within a
risk-controlled framework.
The Global Small Cap Gender Forward Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital
appreciation by investing globally in a diversified portfolio of companies that exhibit
attractive risk/return profiles. Emphasis is on investing in in global, small-cap, developed
market companies that offer favorable valuation, earnings quality, capital deployment, and
investor sentiment characteristics, and have business models with sustainable competitive
advantage. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI World Small Cap
benchmark within a risk-controlled framework.
The International Equity (Global Ex‐US Equity) ADR Strategy seeks to provide long-
term capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of non-US companies that
exhibit attractive risk/return profiles Emphasis is on investing in companies that offer
favorable valuation, earnings quality, capital deployment, and investor sentiment
characteristics, and have business models with sustainable competitive advantage. The
Strategy may invest up to 30% of total assets in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to
deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI ex U.S. benchmark within a risk-controlled
framework.
See Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss below for additional
information.
Promethos Capital also provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management
services for model-based programs as more fully described below.
Model‐Based Programs
Promethos Capital offers institutional model-based programs in which we provide the program
sponsor or overlay manager a strategy through model portfolios and may be responsible for certain
trading and other functions. In many instances, the model-based program sponsor or overlay
manager generally exercises investment discretion and often brokerage discretion. Promethos
Capital is not responsible for overseeing the client relationship, the model-based program sponsor
or overlay manager is.
As of December 31, 2022, Promethos Capital had $363,727,572 in discretionary regulatory assets
under management and $0 in non-discretionary regulatory assets under management.