Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (identified as “Artisan Partners” in this brochure) is a limited
partnership organized under the laws of Delaware and is an investment adviser registered with the SEC.
Artisan Partners Holdings LP wholly owns Artisan Partners and is Artisan Partners’ sole limited partner.
Artisan Investments GP LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holding LP) is Artisan Partners’
general partner. Artisan Partners Holdings LP is a limited partnership organized under the laws of Delaware
whose general partner is Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (“APAM”), a Delaware corporation with its
Class A common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol APAM. Artisan Partners
was formed in March 2009 and succeeded to the investment management business of Artisan Partners
Holdings LP during 2009. Artisan Partners Holdings LP was founded in December 1994 and began
providing investment management services in March 1995. More information concerning Artisan Partners
can be found by visiting www.artisanpartners.com.
Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered
pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners
Funds, Inc. (“Artisan Partners Funds”), an open-ended management investment company. Artisan Partners
also serves as investment adviser to each sub-fund of Artisan Partners Global Funds plc (“Artisan Partners
Global Funds”), an open-ended investment company registered with the Central Bank of Ireland pursuant
to the European UCITS Directive. Additional information on the types of clients advised by Artisan Partners
is included in the section of this brochure entitled “Types of Clients.”
Artisan Partners’ autonomous investment teams oversee a range of investment strategies across multiple
asset classes. Information on each investment team is included in the section of this brochure entitled
“Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.”
Artisan Partners generally does not tailor its investment management services to the individual needs of
clients. Generally, client portfolios in each strategy are managed to a single model, consistent with the
portfolio characteristics described below. However, a client may, with Artisan Partners’ consent, impose
limited restrictions on investment in certain securities or types of securities in its account. Artisan Partners’
compliance monitoring of client accounts is based on its clients’ specific investment guidelines which are
made a part of each client’s written agreement with Artisan Partners. For more information, see the sub-
section below entitled “Managing Divergent Investment Restrictions and Cash in Client Accounts.” Each
pooled investment vehicle sponsored by Artisan Partners is managed in accordance with its investment
guidelines and restrictions and is not tailored to the individualized needs of any particular fund investor,
and an investment in such a vehicle does not, in and of itself, create an advisory relationship between the
investor and Artisan Partners.
Artisan Partners generally accepts responsibility for management of a client account on a discretionary
basis and each client enters into a written agreement with Artisan Partners granting it discretionary
authority. As of December 31, 2019, Artisan Partners managed $121,015,648,762 in client assets on a
discretionary basis.
Additionally, Artisan Partners may provide non-discretionary model portfolio recommendations to
sponsors of managed account programs. Artisan Partners provides the program sponsor with model
portfolio recommendations that represent the securities Artisan Partners recommends for a particular
strategy and the program sponsor uses the recommendations to assist in developing one or more
portfolios for the sponsor’s clients. Clients in the managed account program pay the program sponsor fees
for its services, and the program sponsor pays Artisan Partners for its recommendations. In providing the
model portfolio, Artisan Partners uses the same sources of information and investment personnel that are
used to manage Artisan Partners’ other client accounts. The program sponsor is solely responsible for
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exercising discretion with respect to securities purchased or sold for the client accounts and is solely
responsible for executing trades and seeking best execution for client accounts.
Managing Divergent Investment Restrictions and Cash in Client Accounts
Client portfolios in each strategy generally are managed to a single model. A client’s portfolio may diverge
from Artisan Partners’ model portfolio because of cash flows, divergent investment guidelines, limitations
on specific types of investments (for example, derivatives or short selling), access to markets (for example,
India) or certain other reasons. Cash flows may result in more or less cash in a client’s account than in
Artisan Partners’ model portfolio, and in weightings of portfolio securities that are not aligned with the
model. These client-imposed investment restrictions generally result in weightings of portfolio securities
that are not aligned with Artisan Partners’ model and, in some cases, more or less cash than is held in the
model portfolio. Certain client-imposed restrictions or other account limitations likely will also result in a
different risk profile compared to the model portfolio. For example, an account that is unable to trade
options would have a different risk profile if the model portfolio uses an option. When that occurs, Artisan
Partners will determine whether the restricted account should increase, decrease or maintain its position
size based on the desired risk profile of the account. Artisan Partners typically rebalances a client’s account
to the model portfolio periodically, deploying cash across all or a portion of the holdings in a client’s
portfolio (subject to minimum transaction sizes). As a result, a client whose investment restrictions prohibit
holding a particular security or limit the weighting of a particular security or group of securities will
generally have larger weightings in some or all of the other securities that are held. In some instances, the
investment team will select a replacement security or instrument or have a higher cash weighting when a
model holding is restricted under a client’s investment guidelines. The rebalancing of accounts may result
in multiple transactions in the same security, including opposite-way transactions, in a short period of time.
Artisan Partners believes the benefits of this approach to the management of divergent positions generally
outweigh the potential costs of those transactions. Client-imposed investment restrictions sometimes
affect the timing or manner of purchase or sale of a security. So, for example, if a client account cannot
participate in an initial public offering of a security that will be held in the portfolio, Artisan Partners will
generally purchase that security for the account in the open market after completion of the offering.
Artisan Partners generally does not accept accounts subject to investment restrictions that Artisan Partners
believes would materially adversely affect its ability to manage its other client accounts.
Divergence from Artisan Partners’ model portfolio, as a result of client-imposed investment restrictions,
cash flows or other reasons, will result in differences between the return achieved in a client’s account and
the strategy’s composite return. Client accounts in which client-imposed investment restrictions are
believed to have a potentially material impact on the implementation of the strategy are, based on Artisan
Partners’ judgment, excluded from the strategy’s composite.
Management of cash balances in a client’s account is determined at the beginning of the relationship.
Generally, cash is invested in one or more investment alternatives provided by the custodian of the client’s
account, as selected by the client.
Other Investment Related Information
Professional Qualifications
All investment decisions for client accounts are made by the portfolio manager(s) for that strategy,
working with associate portfolio managers, investment analysts, traders and/or risk managers dedicated to
or supporting that investment team. Artisan Partners generally employs persons to provide investment
advice to clients only if those persons have demonstrated ability by previous employment in the
investment advisory industry or securities industry, have related financial and professional experience or
have advanced educational degrees in finance, economics or related fields. The professional qualifications
of each of Artisan Partners’ portfolio managers are set forth in brochure supplements provided to Artisan
Partners’ clients and potential clients.
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Portfolio Turnover
There are no limitations on the length of time securities must be held in any strategy. The firm may, for
example, sell securities within a short period of time after purchase in light of a change in the
circumstances of a particular company or industry or in general market or economic conditions. A higher
rate of portfolio turnover, if it occurs, results in increased transaction expenses and the realization of capital
gains or losses that, in a taxable account, may reduce performance.
Investment Guidelines and Restrictions
Compliance with certain investment guidelines is measured at the time of purchase or at the time of
initiation of a position in a strategy. Because of this, a newly-funded account may exceed those limits if
market movements have caused Artisan Partners’ model portfolio to be above those limits at the time the
new account is funded. Similarly, cash inflows to existing accounts are generally invested to maintain the
relative weightings of the securities held in the portfolio, even if market movements have caused the
account to be above certain limits at the time of the cash inflow. As an example, Artisan Partners may limit
exposure to individual issuers within certain of its strategies to a maximum of 5% of the assets of a
portfolio, measured at market value at the time of purchase. However, if at the time of the cash inflow an
issuer comprises more than 5% of the portfolio’s assets due to market movement, the portfolio may
purchase additional securities of that issuer to invest the cash inflow and maintain the weighting
consistent with the model portfolio.
Certain strategies also have market capitalization guidelines that reference the market capitalizations (or
another market capitalization metric such as weighted average market capitalization) of the companies
included in a relevant benchmark index. Changes in the composition of those indexes can cause
significant fluctuations in the benchmark market capitalizations, which will cause the market capitalization
of a portfolio, or the securities held in a portfolio, to be larger or smaller than the market capitalization or
related metric of securities within the benchmark index for a period of time following such change.
For the purpose of testing compliance with each strategy’s investment restrictions, absent specific
instructions to the contrary, Artisan Partners generally considers an issuer to be from a particular country as
designated by its securities information vendors, which may change from time to time. However, each
investment team, in its own judgment, may consider an issuer to be from a country other than the country
designated by the securities information vendors. In determining the country designations of issuers, each
investment team and/or Artisan Partners’ vendors use a range of criteria, including the identity of the
jurisdiction of the issuer’s incorporation, the main equity trading market for the issuer’s securities, the
geographical distribution of the issuer’s operations, the location of the issuer’s headquarters or other
criteria, such as the source of a company’s revenues. In addition, the country designations shown in client
reports may differ from the classifications used for purposes of testing compliance with investment
restrictions. Over time, country designations may change.
Also for the purpose of testing compliance with each strategy’s investment restrictions, absent specific
instructions to the contrary, Artisan Partners generally assigns portfolio securities and instruments to a
particular sector and industry in accordance with the sector and industry classifications as designated by its
securities information vendors, which may change from time to time. However, each investment team, in
its own judgment, may determine that a different classification is more appropriate. Therefore,
classifications may differ by strategy and investment team. In determining a security’s sector or industry
classification, each investment team and/or Artisan Partners’ vendors use a range of criteria, including
using information or classifications of other securities information vendors, the company description
and/or other publicly available information. In addition, the industry classifications shown in client reports
may differ from the classifications used for purposes of testing compliance with investment restrictions.
Sector and industry classifications may change over time.
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Currency Transactions
Artisan Partners buys and sells currencies to facilitate purchases and sales of portfolio securities of
companies that are denominated in a currency other than a client’s base currency. Artisan Partners’
primary objective in effecting currency transactions is to obtain the best combination of net price and
execution under the circumstances. To facilitate purchases and sales of portfolio securities that trade in
currencies other than a client’s base currency, Artisan Partners typically executes foreign exchange
contracts in the spot market either by transacting with various third party foreign exchange dealers or
through active market trading with the capital markets (foreign exchange) desk affiliated with the client’s
custodial bank. Artisan Partners reviews market rates at the time of each execution and actively negotiates
the rate with the foreign exchange dealer. Artisan Partners does not send foreign exchange transactions in
connection with equity trades to a custodian for future execution without negotiating the rates associated
with those trades unless it is directed to do so by the client, it is effectively required by local regulation or
custom, or Artisan Partners believes the potential operational risk of a negotiated trade outweighs the
potential benefits of a negotiated trade.
For corporate actions such as mergers and offerings of rights and warrants, as well as cash dividends and
interest income denominated in a currency other than a client’s base currency, Artisan Partners typically
executes foreign exchange contracts in the spot market on a periodic basis through active negotiations as
discussed above.
There are, however, a few markets in which foreign currency cannot be purchased or sold through active
trading with a foreign exchange dealer. In those markets, Artisan Partners arranges with the client’s
custodian or sub-custodian for the foreign exchange transactions to be executed in the local market
(current examples of such markets are India and Taiwan).
Evaluations of the services provided by dealers, including the reasonableness of rates received, are made
on an ongoing basis by Artisan Partners, taking into consideration a variety of factors, including, for
example, trade size, counterparty/settlement risk and operational risk. Transacting with third-party dealers
may cause an account to incur additional fees, such as wire fees for each currency transaction, that are not
charged if the foreign exchange contract is transacted through the custodian bank. Additionally, there may
be operational advantages to using the custodian bank, such as contractual settlement and systematic
communication between the custodian bank’s currency trading operations and its equity settlements
operations. In those markets where Artisan Partners must purchase or sell currencies through a client's
custodian or sub-custodian for execution in the local market, Artisan Partners periodically reviews the rates
received for reasonableness.
With respect to each foreign exchange transaction, a client may not receive the same price received by
other clients within the same strategy or the price that could have been received if the transaction had
been executed with a different counterparty. Artisan Partners seeks to cooperate with individual client
requests with respect to the use of third party foreign exchange dealers. However, active negotiation of
rates and/or transactions executed with counterparties other than the capital markets (foreign exchange)
desk affiliated with the client’s custodian (or affiliate of the custodian) or sub-custodian may not be
possible due to market limitations or limitations of the custodian or, where possible, may be less beneficial
to a client due to the costs associated with such transactions or the potential for increased settlement,
operational or other counterparty risks described above. Certain clients may be restricted in their ability to
execute foreign exchange transactions with certain dealers. Artisan Partners generally aggregates foreign
exchange transactions on behalf of these clients with foreign exchange transactions on behalf of other
clients and, as a result, clients who are otherwise unrestricted in their ability to select counterparties for
foreign exchange transactions may be unable to execute trades with certain dealers.
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Significant Shareholder Reporting
From time to time, Artisan Partners is required by applicable laws, rules and regulations to file reports with
an issuer and/or regulators that contain information about its clients’ holdings of the issuer when the
holdings are large enough to require reporting. Those reports are often publicly available and, in limited
circumstances, require disclosure of the client’s identity and holdings.
In addition, Artisan Partners’ clients can hold a position in an issuer that is large enough to require
reporting by the client to the issuer and/or regulators under applicable laws, rules and regulations. Artisan
Partners does not monitor or advise on reporting requirements for clients other than Artisan Partners
Funds, Artisan Partners Global Funds and unregistered pooled investment vehicles that it sponsors (each, a
“Private Fund”) because, among other reasons, Artisan Partners does not have an ability to properly
monitor the aggregate holdings of clients and such monitoring is generally handled by each client’s other
service providers.
Communications with Portfolio Company Management
Members of Artisan Partners’ investment teams frequently communicate with management at companies
in which the firm invests, which may include discussions of ideas about the companies’ prospects or
strategies. From time to time, Artisan Partners also communicates with a company’s board of directors or
members of a company’s advisory or similar board. In some circumstances, Artisan Partners might actively
participate in a shareholder meeting (including submitting an item for inclusion on the agenda of a
meeting) or otherwise act in a public manner to communicate an investment team’s views about a
particular company’s business strategy.
In addition, Artisan Partners, from time to time, serves on creditors’ committees, equityholders’ committees
or similar groups in order to protect its clients’ interests as creditor or equityholder of a company. In doing
so, Artisan Partners will be subject to certain obligations as a member of the committee. For example, in
certain circumstances Artisan Partners may, for a period of time, be restricted or prohibited under
applicable law from transacting in instruments of the subject company as a consequence of its service on
the committee or group. Artisan Partners generally can resign from a committee or group but may, in
some circumstances, continue to be subject to its obligations as a member of the committee or
restrictions on transactions even after resignation.
Class Actions
Artisan Partners tries to identify US-style securities class actions as a result of which a client may have a
claim in connection with a portfolio security held or previously held by the client in an account managed
by Artisan Partners. Artisan Partners will use reasonable efforts to notify its clients of these US-style
securities class actions and provide any information in its possession that a client reasonably requests to
assist the client, its custodian, its primary adviser (in the case of clients for which Artisan Partners is sub-
adviser), administrator or other service providers in submitting a claim. However, each client’s custodian
should provide the client with the required documents because the securities are held in the client’s name
at the custodian. The client should direct its custodian, or other service provider, as to the manner in which
such matters should be handled. Unless otherwise specifically agreed with a client, Artisan Partners does
not file claims for clients other than Artisan Partners Funds, Artisan Partners Global Funds and Private
Funds. Artisan Partners does not decide on behalf of a client, or recommend any decision to a client, as to
whether a client should submit a claim, opt in to a lawsuit, opt out of a settlement or otherwise participate
in litigation. Artisan Partners does not generally act (for itself or on behalf of clients) as plaintiff or opt-in to
non-US lawsuits because Artisan Partners believes that the time commitment that could be required from
members of the investment team could have an adverse effect on the team’s ability to manage client
portfolios and active litigation against a company by Artisan Partners may impede open communication
with management of that company or other companies.
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Issuer Relationships
Unless otherwise prohibited by a client, Artisan Partners does not restrict the ability of a client account to
invest in a security solely because the security is issued by a company, or an affiliate of a company, that is
also a client of or has a business relationship with Artisan Partners or its affiliates, or because a director or
officer of the issuing company, or an affiliate of the issuing company, is a client or has another business
relationship (including service as a director) with Artisan Partners or its affiliates. For example, the portfolio
of Client A may hold securities issued by Client B, or issued by a company, a director of which is also a
director of Artisan Partners Funds or APAM.
Transactions in securities by Artisan Partners’ personnel, including personal transactions, are governed by a
comprehensive code of ethics, discussed in more detail under the section of this brochure entitled “Code
of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading.”
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Artisan Partners generally receives compensation from separately-managed accounts that is calculated as
a percentage of the client’s assets under management. Such asset-based fees are typically billed and paid
quarterly, in arrears, based on the average market value of the assets comprising the account during the
calendar quarter, although Artisan Partners will consider other methods of payment and/or fee calculation
at the request of a client. Clients may choose to pay such invoices from the assets of the account managed
by Artisan Partners or from another source. Upon a client’s request, Artisan Partners may agree to bill a
client for its services in advance. If Artisan Partners has billed in advance, any fees attributable to the period
after termination will be refunded on a pro-rata basis, calculated based on the number of days on which
Artisan Partners provided investment management services to the client during the period in which
termination occurred. Any such refund will be paid promptly after termination without further request by
the client.
In addition, Artisan Partners charges performance-based fees for certain strategies. Additional information
on performance-based fees is included in the section of this brochure entitled “Performance-Based Fees
and Side-by-Side Management.”
The standard rates of fees that are charged by Artisan Partners to establish a separate account as of the
date of this brochure are shown in the table below.
Strategy Asset Base Annual Fee Rate
Growth Team Global Discovery Accounts First $50 million 0.75%
Assets > $50 million 0.65%
Global Opportunities Accounts1 First $50 million 0.80%
Next $50 million 0.60%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
US Mid-Cap Growth Accounts First $50 million 0.80%
Next $50 million 0.60%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
US Small-Cap Growth Accounts First $100 million 0.90%
Assets > $100 million 0.80%
Global Equity Team Global Equity Accounts First $100 million 0.70%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
Non-US Growth Accounts First $50 million 0.80%
Assets > $50 million 0.60%
Non-US Small-Mid Growth Accounts First $50 million 0.95%
Assets > $50 million 0.85%
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Strategy Asset Base Annual Fee Rate
US Value Team Value Equity Accounts First $50 million 0.70%
Next $100 million 0.50%
Assets > $150 million 0.40%
US Mid-Cap Value Accounts First $50 million 0.80%
Next $50 million 0.60%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
International Value
Team
International Value Accounts First $50 million 0.80%
Next $50 million 0.60%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
Global Value Team Global Value Accounts First $100 million 0.80%
Next $100 million 0.70%
Assets > $200 million 0.60%
Select Equity Accounts First $50 million 0.65%
Next $50 million 0.55%
Assets > $100 million 0.50%
Sustainable Emerging
Markets Team
Sustainable Emerging Markets Accounts First $100 million 0.85%
Next $100 million 0.75%
Next $100 million 0.65%
Assets > $300 million 0.55%
Credit Team High Income Accounts First $250 million 0.55%
Assets > $250 million 0.50%
Credit Opportunities Accounts All Assets 1.00% plus 15%
performance fee
Developing
World Team
Developing World Accounts First $100 million 0.90%
Assets > $100 million 0.85%
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Strategy Asset Base Annual Fee Rate
Thematic Team Thematic Accounts All Assets 1.00%; or
0.70% plus 20%
of returns above
a benchmark
Thematic Long/Short Accounts All Assets 1.00%; or
0.70% plus 20%
of returns above
a benchmark
1 Artisan Partners is generally not accepting new client relationships in Artisan Global Opportunities Strategy. From
time to time, when Artisan Partners believes the strategy has capacity, it may, however, accept a new account in
its discretion. Artisan Global Opportunities Strategy is open across pooled vehicles.
The investment management fees charged by Artisan Partners may be greater than fees charged by other
investment managers for similar portfolio management services.
Artisan Partners sometimes negotiates other fee schedules depending on the type of account,
relationship, if any, to other accounts managed by Artisan Partners, the size of the account, the level of
client service required, potential growth and other factors Artisan Partners considers relevant. For example,
lower fee schedules apply to certain longstanding clients and may be offered to early clients in a strategy.
Lower fee schedules also apply to clients with lesser service requirements, including, for example, clients in
certain implemented programs offered by consultants. Artisan Partners will negotiate an individual fee
schedule with a client (and its affiliates or accounts under common control) having assets under Artisan
Partners’ management of approximately $500 million or more, or anticipated by Artisan Partners to do so
within a reasonable period of time, or in connection with a sub-advisory arrangement that Artisan Partners
thinks will provide it with access to a market segment to which Artisan Partners would otherwise not have
access. Artisan Partners has, with respect to a limited number of clients, agreed to reimbursements, credits
or offsets relating to certain types or specified amounts of expenses that the client would otherwise be
required to pay.
Artisan Partners also provides sub-advisory services to pooled investment vehicles, including without
limitation mutual funds, private funds, non-US funds and collective trusts. The compensation Artisan
Partners receives from those vehicles for its sub-advisory services is at rates negotiated with those clients,
which are generally different from the rates set forth in the table above.
Artisan Partners also serves as investment adviser to Artisan Partners Funds and Artisan Partners Global
Funds and provides investment management and certain administrative services to those funds. The fees
and expenses paid by each series and sub-fund of Artisan Partners Funds and Artisan Partners Global
Funds, respectively, are described in their respective prospectuses and reflected in their financial
statements included in reports to shareholders. For Artisan Partners Funds and Artisan Partners Global
Funds, Artisan Partners agrees to reimburse certain funds to the extent that the fund’s annual ordinary
operating expenses exceed a specified limitation.
Artisan Partners also sponsors and serves as investment adviser to unregistered pooled investment
vehicles, referred to herein as the Private Funds. The fees and expenses paid by a Private Fund are
described in the Private Fund’s Offering Memorandum, subscription agreement and/or other governing
documents and are reflected in its audited financial statements. Artisan Partners, from time to time, agrees
to reimburse a Private Fund to the extent that the Private Fund’s annual ordinary operating expenses
exceed a specified limitation.
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Artisan Partners does not maintain any client’s official books and records but maintains its own records of
transactions in and holdings of client accounts that are the basis of Artisan Partners’ performance reporting
to clients and, except to the extent Artisan Partners and a client otherwise agree, the basis for calculating
Artisan Partners’ management fees. In maintaining its own books and records, Artisan Partners generally
values each equity security at the closing price on the exchange or market designated by Artisan Partners
or a pricing vendor as the principal exchange or market. Equity-linked securities, such as participation
certificates, participation notes or access notes, are valued by referencing the underlying security.
Exchange traded option contracts are valued at the mid price (average of the bid price and ask price) as
provided by the pricing vendor at the close of trading on the contract’s principal exchange. Exchange
traded futures contracts are valued at the settlement price as provided by the pricing vendor at the close
of trading on the principal exchange. Artisan Partners generally values non-exchange traded derivatives,
corporate bonds, loans and other fixed income instruments using evaluations provided by approved
pricing vendors. Artisan Partners has established a valuation policy for these purposes that it makes
available to clients upon request. That policy describes the procedures Artisan Partners follows when
market quotations are not readily available or Artisan Partners believes prices do not represent a fair value.
In addition to the management fee paid to Artisan Partners, a client that engages Artisan Partners will pay
other expenses in connection with its account. Those expenses include custodian fees and expenses
(negotiated by the client and its custodian and outside the control of Artisan Partners). If the client’s
arrangement with its custodian includes a transaction or ticket charge, the client’s custody costs will be
affected by the number of transactions executed in the account. Custody charges may also be affected by
the number of countries in which assets of a portfolio are invested (and whether those countries are
developed markets or not) and related sub-custody expenses. Each client also will pay brokerage
commissions and other transaction costs. Artisan Partners’ practices relating to brokerage are discussed
later in this brochure under the heading “Brokerage Practices.” In addition, clients may pay expenses
associated with non-US transactions and expenses in connection with purchasing derivatives (for example,
options) or selling securities short. Depending on the strategy, clients may also pay charges incurred in
connection with foreign exchange transactions. Artisan Partners’ practices concerning foreign exchange
transactions are more fully described above in the section of this brochure entitled “Advisory Business,”
under the sub-heading entitled “Other Investment Related Information.”
Artisan Partners may from time to time invest assets of a client portfolio in shares of an investment
company not managed by Artisan Partners, a real estate investment trust or another type of pooled
investment vehicle. Investments in investment companies are usually made in exchange-traded
investment companies when Artisan Partners believes that such an investment is an attractive investment
opportunity or is the most efficient way to gain exposure to a particular market or market sector. For
example, an account might invest in the securities of an exchange-traded fund investing in a particular
country or region in which it may not be possible or may be inefficient for the account to invest directly.
The cash balance of a client’s account is typically invested in a money market fund or some other short-
term pooled fund offered by the client’s custodian and selected by the client. Pooled investment vehicles,
including investment companies and real estate investment trusts, impose management fees and have
other expenses of their own, and a client account investing in such a security will bear its proportionate
share of those expenses in addition to Artisan Partners’ management fee.
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Artisan Partners or its affiliates receive performance-based allocations or fees from the Private Funds.
Artisan Partners also expects to receive performance-based fees from accounts in the Credit Opportunities
Strategy and may receive performance-based fees from accounts in the Thematic Long/Short Strategy. In
addition, Artisan Partners will, under certain circumstances, negotiate performance-based fee
arrangements with other accounts.
Potential conflicts of interest may arise in the management of multiple investment strategies by a single
investment team when Artisan Partners manages accounts (including the Private Funds) that are charged
a performance-based fee and accounts that are charged an asset-based fee because, for example, the fees
earned from accounts with performance-based fees have the potential to exceed the fees earned from
other accounts. In addition, the existence of performance-based fees create an incentive for Artisan
Partners to make investments that are more speculative than would be the case in the absence of such
performance-based fees. Although Artisan Partners may have an incentive to manage the assets of
accounts with performance-based fees differently from its other accounts, Artisan Partners maintains
policies and procedures and internal review processes designed to mitigate such conflicts. Please see the
sections of this brochure entitled “Advisory Business” and “Brokerage Practices” for more detailed
information.
An investment team can provide advice to accounts in one investment strategy that differs from advice
given to accounts in another investment strategy. If an investment team identifies a limited investment
opportunity that may be suitable for more than one strategy, a strategy may not be able to take full
advantage of that opportunity. There also may be circumstances when an investment team has an
incentive to devote more time or resources to, or to implement different ideas in, one strategy over
another. An investment team may also execute transactions for one strategy that may adversely impact
the value of securities held by a different strategy or team. For example, an investment team may engage
in short sales of securities of an issuer in which a client of another strategy or team also invests in the same
securities long. In such a case, Artisan Partners could harm the performance of one client for the benefit of
the client engaging in short sales if the short sales cause the market value of the securities to fall. Artisan
Partners has in place policies and procedures that it believes are reasonably designed to identify and
resolve these actual and potential conflicts of interest.
Potential conflicts may also arise when different clients invest in different parts of an issuer’s capital
structure, such as when a client owns senior debt obligations of an issuer and other clients own junior
tranches or equity securities of the same issuer. In such circumstances, decisions over whether to trigger
an event of default, over the terms of any workout, or how to exit an investment may result in conflicts of
interest. In order to minimize such conflicts, a portfolio manager may avoid certain investment
opportunities and negotiations with issuers that would potentially give rise to conflicts with other Artisan
Partners’ clients, or Artisan Partners may enact internal procedures designed to minimize such conflicts,
which could have the effect of limiting the client’s investment opportunities.
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Artisan Partners provides investment management services to pension and profit sharing plans,
corporations, trusts, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations, high net worth individuals,
governmental entities, insurance companies, commingled investment vehicles, investment advisers,
trustees of collective investment trusts and investment companies and similar pooled investment vehicles,
and also provides administrative services to certain investment vehicles. Artisan Partners may also provide
model portfolio recommendations to sponsors of managed account programs.
Artisan Partners accepts responsibility for management of a client account on a discretionary basis and
each client enters into a written agreement with Artisan Partners granting it discretionary authority. In
general, Artisan Partners does not accept separately-managed accounts, or groups of related separately-
managed accounts, that have initial asset values less than the amounts shown below unless Artisan
Partners expects the account(s) to grow in the future. In addition, Artisan Partners may require a client
whose separately-managed account balance has fallen below the amounts shown below to make
additions to its account to meet the minimum account size as a condition of maintaining the account
unless the failure to meet the minimum account size is the result of asset depreciation due to market
movements. Artisan Partners may in the future set a higher or lower minimum account size, depending on
circumstances believed by it to be relevant.
Strategy Minimum Account Size
Growth Team Global Discovery $50 Million
Global Opportunities1 $30 Million
US Mid-Cap Growth $50 Million
US Small-Cap Growth $20 Million
Global Equity Team Global Equity $30 Million
Non-US Growth $50 Million
Non-US Small-Mid Growth $30 Million
US Value Team Value Equity $30 Million
US Mid-Cap Value $30 Million
International Value Team International Value $75 Million
Global Value Team Global Value $100 Million
Select Equity $30 Million
Sustainable Emerging Markets Team Sustainable Emerging Markets $50 Million
Credit Team High Income $100 Million
Credit Opportunities $150 Million
Developing World Team Developing World $100 Million
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Strategy Minimum Account Size
Thematic Team Thematic $50 Million
Thematic Long/Short $50 Million
1 Artisan Partners is generally not accepting new client relationships in Artisan Global Opportunities Strategy. From
time to time, when Artisan Partners believes the strategy has capacity, it may, however, accept a new account in its
discretion. Artisan Global Opportunities Strategy is open across pooled vehicles.
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Investment Teams
As explained above, Artisan Partners’ autonomous investment teams oversee a range of investment
strategies across multiple asset classes. Each investment team employs a fundamental research process,
examining various items of financial and economic data that the investment team deems relevant. Each
team operates autonomously to identify investment opportunities in order to generate strong, long-term
investment performance.
There is no guarantee that a client’s account will achieve its investment objective, or that a client’s account
will not lose value. Investing involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. Each investment
team’s ability to choose appropriate investments for an account has a significant impact on the ability to
achieve an account’s investment objective.
Artisan Partners Growth Team
Artisan Partners Growth Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have similar
economic characteristics. The team’s strategies employ a fundamental investment process used to
construct diversified portfolios of growth companies. The investment team seeks to invest in companies
that it believes possess franchise characteristics, are benefiting from an accelerating profit cycle and are
trading at a discount to its estimate of private market value. The investment process focuses on two
distinct elements – security selection and capital allocation. The investment team overlays its investment
process with environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations and broad knowledge of the
global economy. Artisan Partners Growth Team’s investment process begins by identifying companies that
possess franchise characteristics such as low cost production capability, possession of a proprietary asset,
dominant market share or a defensible brand name; are benefiting from an accelerating profit cycle and
are trading at a discount to the team’s estimate of private market value. Artisan Partners Growth Team
looks for companies that it believes are well positioned for long-term growth, which is driven by demand
for their products and services at an early enough stage in their profit cycles to benefit from the increased
cash flows produced by the emerging profit cycle. Based on the investment team’s fundamental analysis
of a company’s profit cycle, it divides the portfolio into three parts. GardenSM investments are small
positions in the early part of their profit cycle that may warrant more sizeable allocations as their profit
cycle accelerates. CropSM investments are positions that are being increased to a full weight because the
team believes they are moving through the strongest part of their profit cycles. HarvestSM investments are
positions that are being reduced as they near the investment team’s estimate of full valuation or their
profit cycle begins to decelerate. The investment team overlays the security selection and capital
allocation elements of its investment process with a desire to invest opportunistically across the entire
global economy and employs a framework in assessing ESG factors that informs its security selection and
capital allocation process. The team seeks broad knowledge of the global economy in order to position it
to find growth wherever it occurs.
Artisan Partners Global Equity Team
Artisan Partners Global Equity Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have similar
economic characteristics. The team employs a fundamental stock selection process focused on identifying
companies within its preferred themes with sustainable growth characteristics at valuations that do not
fully reflect their long-term potential. The team’s objective is to invest in companies that are industry
leaders and have meaningful exposure to and will benefit from long-term secular growth trends. To
identify long-term, sustainable growth characteristics of potential investments, the team seeks high-quality
companies that typically have a sustainable competitive advantage, a superior business model and a high-
quality management team. Finally, the team uses multiple valuation metrics to establish a target price
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range and assesses the relationship between its estimate of a company’s sustainable growth prospects
and the company’s current valuation.
Artisan Partners US Value Team
Artisan Partners US Value Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have similar
economic characteristics. The team’s strategies employ a fundamental investment process used to
construct diversified portfolios of companies. The investment team seeks to invest in companies that are
undervalued, in solid financial condition and have attractive business economics. Artisan Partners US Value
Team believes that companies with these characteristics are less likely to experience eroding values over
the long term compared to companies without such characteristics.
Artisan Partners US Value Team prefers companies with an acceptable level of debt and positive cash flow,
which it believes represents financial flexibility and strength, and cash-producing businesses that it
believes are capable of earning acceptable returns on capital over the company’s business cycle. Once an
investment candidate has been identified, the research process includes an in-depth analysis of the
company’s financial statements, an examination of the company’s competitive position within its industry,
a thorough analysis and review of the company’s resources, and a review of its business economics and
cash flows.
The team establishes dynamic buy and sell ranges for a company’s securities based on its assessment of
the company’s intrinsic value, which is determined using multiple valuation tools, including the
examination of normalized free cash flow multiples, price-to-earnings ratios, sum of the parts and M&A
multiples.
Artisan Partners International Value Team
Artisan Partners International Value Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have
similar economic characteristics. The team’s strategies employ a fundamental investment process used to
construct diversified portfolios of companies. The team seeks to invest in what it considers high quality,
undervalued companies with strong balance sheets and shareholder-oriented management teams. The
investment team seeks to invest in companies with strong competitive positions in their industries and
histories of generating strong free cash flow and improving returns on capital, at a price that is a significant
discount from the team’s estimate of the intrinsic value of the business. The investment team believes
these criteria help rule out businesses that may appear undervalued based on certain financial ratios but
whose intrinsic values are deteriorating over time. The investment team also believes that investing in
companies with strong balance sheets reduces the potential for investment losses and provides company
management the ability to create stockholder value when attractive opportunities are available. The
investment team’s research process attempts to identify management teams with a history of building
value for their stockholders.
Artisan Partners Global Value Team
Artisan Partners Global Value Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have similar
economic characteristics. The team’s strategies employ a fundamental investment process used to
construct diversified portfolios of companies. The team seeks to invest in what it considers high quality,
undervalued companies with strong balance sheets and shareholder-oriented management teams. The
investment team seeks to invest in companies with strong competitive positions in their industries and
histories of generating strong free cash flow and improving returns on capital, at a price that is a significant
discount from the team’s estimate of the intrinsic value of the business. The investment team believes
these criteria help rule out businesses that may appear undervalued based on certain financial ratios but
whose intrinsic values are deteriorating over time. The investment team also believes that investing in
companies with strong balance sheets reduces the potential for investment losses and provides company
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management the ability to create stockholder value when attractive opportunities are available. The
investment team’s research process attempts to identify management teams with a history of building
value for their stockholders.
Artisan Partners Sustainable Emerging Markets Team
Artisan Partners Sustainable Emerging Markets Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments
that have similar economic characteristics. The team believes that, over the long term, a company’s stock
price is directly related to its ability to deliver sustainable earnings. Investment opportunities develop
when businesses with sustainable earnings are undervalued relative to global peers or historical industry,
country or regional valuations. To estimate a company’s sustainable earnings, the investment team uses
both financial and strategic analyses. The financial analysis focuses on a company’s balance sheet, income
statement and statement of cash flows in order to identify historic drivers of return on equity. The strategic
analysis examines a company’s competitive advantages and financial strength in order to assess
sustainability. This includes assessment of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, via
quantitative and qualitative factors. Finally, the investment team considers company-specific and country-
appropriate macroeconomic risk factors in determining a risk-adjusted target price.
Artisan Partners Credit Team
Artisan Partners Credit Team invests primarily in non-investment grade corporate bonds and secured and
unsecured loans of US and non-US issuers. The team invests along the corporate capital structure,
including, but not limited to, long and short investments in bonds, loans, equity securities and derivatives
of both investment grade and non-investment grade issuers. The team seeks to invest in issuers with high
quality business models that have compelling risk-adjusted return characteristics. The team’s research
process has four primary pillars: Business Quality, Financial Strength and Flexibility, Downside Analysis and
Value Identification. In determining the business quality of a company, the team uses a variety of sources
to understand the resiliency of an issuer’s business model. The team analyzes the general health of the
industry in which an issuer operates, the issuer’s competitive position, the dynamics of industry
participants, and the decision-making history of the issuer’s management. The team believes that
determining the financial strength and flexibility of an investment through analyzing the history and trend
of free cash flow generation is critical to understanding an issuer’s financial health. The financial analysis
part of the investment process also considers an issuer’s capital structure, refinancing options, financial
covenants, amortization schedules and overall financial transparency. The team believes that credit
instruments by their nature have an asymmetric risk profile. In its downside analysis, the team seeks to
manage this risk with what it believes to be conservative financial projections that account for industry
position, competitive dynamics and positioning within the capital structure. During the value identification
part of the research process, multiple metrics are used to determine the value of an investment
opportunity. The team looks for credit improvement potential, relative value within an issuer’s capital
structure, catalysts for business improvement and potential value stemming from market or industry
dislocations.
Artisan Partners Developing World Team
Artisan Partners Developing World Team invests primarily in equity securities or instruments that have
similar economic characteristics. The team constructs a diversified portfolio that offers exposure to
developing world economies generally by investing substantially in companies domiciled in or
economically tied to countries that the team considers to have characteristics typical of the developing
world. The team may seek to mitigate portfolio volatility by emphasizing investments in countries and
currencies that are less dependent on foreign capital, or by investing in multi-national companies
economically tied to the developing world. The team believes a portfolio of companies with these
characteristics will be well positioned to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns over the long term.
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Artisan Partners Thematic Team
Artisan Partners Thematic Team invests primarily in equity securities and utilizes equity derivative
instruments and short positions to help position the portfolio to deliver attractive, long-term risk-adjusted
returns. The team’s investment approach is based on thematic idea generation, a systematic framework for
analyzing companies and proactive risk management.
The team believes a key element in alpha generation is finding areas where the team’s views on industry
fundamentals differ from consensus estimates. In this pursuit, the team seeks to identify inflections in
multi-year trends which may be caused by changes in supply/demand dynamics, societal behavior, market
conditions, technology, laws/regulations and business models, among other variables. The team believes
these inflections are often misunderstood by market participants, and can lead to powerful re-ratings of
industries and companies. Identifying themes helps the team develop a focused universe of companies to
analyze more thoroughly. Themes are also dynamic. A single company may be relevant for multiple
themes, for example, and a company’s relevance to a particular theme may, on the judgment of the team,
change over time. Nevertheless, selecting the right themes is a critical step in effective portfolio
construction. The team then applies a systematic framework for analyzing companies across sectors and
themes, creating a repeatable and methodical decision-making process. The team will also consider
compelling idiosyncratic positions that are a good fit for the portfolio based on the team’s rigorous
fundamental analysis. The team’s proprietary company models focus on multi-year earnings power
differentiation, expected outcome scenario analysis, return on invested capital and discounted cash flow
valuations. Visual outputs are then produced through the firm's internally developed technology solutions,
allowing the team to consistently evaluate positions across the portfolio.
The team incorporates risk management into all stages of its investment process. Metrics evaluated
include crowding, correlation, volatility, stress tests, liquidity, factor analysis and macro drivers, all of which
inform portfolio construction and position sizing. The team also uses various instruments, such as options,
in an effort to magnify alpha and minimize downside.
Risk of Loss
Investing in securities and other financial instruments involves risks, including the risk of loss of capital that
clients should be prepared to bear. Clients should have a long-term perspective and be able to tolerate
potentially sharp declines in value. Below is a summary of material risks associated with the strategies;
however, a client’s risks will vary based on the strategy utilized and specific investments held. The summary
is not intended to be a complete list or description of the risks associated with any strategy and each
strategy may be exposed to additional risks not listed below.
Account Consent Requirements. Periodically, Artisan Partners will, in its judgment, determine that
consent from an account is necessary to make an investment or participate in a corporate event. If Artisan
Partners determines that consent is impractical due to timing or other considerations or consent is not
received by an applicable due date, Artisan Partners will not have the opportunity to make the investment
for that account.
Confidential Information Risks. From time to time, employees of Artisan Partners may receive material
non-public information (referred to herein as “Confidential Information”). Employees may obtain
Confidential Information, voluntarily or involuntarily, through Artisan Partners’ management activities or
the employee’s outside activities. Confidential Information may be received under varying circumstances,
including, but not limited to, upon execution of a non-disclosure agreement with an issuer, as a result of
serving on a creditors’ committee and through conversations with a company’s management team. Under
applicable law, Artisan Partners’ employees are generally prohibited from disclosing or using Confidential
Information in effecting purchases and sales in public securities transactions for their personal benefit or
for the benefit of any other person (including clients). Accordingly, should an employee receive
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Confidential Information with respect to an issuer, the employee is generally prohibited from
communicating that information or using that information in public securities transactions, which could
limit the ability to buy or sell certain investments even when the limitation is detrimental to Artisan
Partners, the employee or the client.
Artisan Partners may seek to avoid the receipt of Confidential Information when it determines that the
receipt of Confidential Information would unduly restrict investment flexibility. In circumstances when
Artisan Partners declines to receive Confidential Information from an issuer, an account may be
disadvantaged in comparison to other investors, including with respect to evaluating the issuer and the
price the account would pay or receive when it buys or sells those investments. Further, in situations when
the account is asked, for example, to grant consents, waivers or amendments with respect to such
investments, Artisan Partners’ ability to assess such consents, waivers and amendments may be impacted
by its lack of access to Confidential Information.
Artisan Partners has adopted policies that establish an information barrier between the Credit Team and its
other investment teams to minimize the likelihood that Confidential Information received by the Credit
Team will be shared with another team. In addition, Artisan Partners also creates information barriers
around other persons having access to Confidential Information (“walled-off personnel”) to limit the
restrictions on others at Artisan Partners. These measures are intended to limit access to, and sharing of,
Confidential Information.
From time to time, Artisan Partners uses paid expert networks. Artisan Partners has adopted specific
procedures to prevent and address the inadvertent receipt of Confidential Information from the expert
networks.
Convertible Securities Risks. Investing in convertible securities subjects the accounts to the risks of debt,
as well as to the risks associated with an investment in the underlying equity security. Convertible
securities are frequently issued with a call feature that allows the issuer to choose when to redeem the
security, which could result in the accounts being forced to redeem, convert, or sell the convertible
security under circumstances unfavorable to the accounts.
Credit Default Swap Risks. Credit default swap agreements may involve greater risks than if an account
had invested in the reference obligation directly. When an account acts as a seller of credit default swap
protection, it is exposed to, among other things, leverage risk because if an event of default occurs the
seller must pay the buyer up to the full notional value of the reference obligation. A buyer of credit default
swap protection generally will lose its investment and recover nothing should no credit event occur and
the swap is held to its termination date. Each party to a credit default swap agreement is subject to the
credit risk of its counterparty (the risk that its counterparty may be unwilling or unable to perform its
obligations on the swap as they come due).
Credit Risks. An issuer or counterparty may fail to pay its obligations when they are due. Financial strength
and solvency (or the perceived financial strength or solvency) of an issuer are the primary factors
influencing credit risk. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific
economic, social or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or other instrument or an
issuer, and changes in economic, social or political conditions generally can increase the risk of default by
an issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security’s or other instrument’s credit quality or value and an
issuer’s or counterparty’s ability to pay interest and principal when due.
Currency Risks. Non-US securities purchased by Artisan Partners are often denominated and traded in
currencies other than a client’s base currency. The exchange rates between those currencies and a client’s
base currency fluctuate continuously. As a result, an account’s performance will be affected by its direct or
indirect exposure, which may include exposure through US dollar denominated depositary receipts and
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participation certificates, to a particular currency due to favorable or unfavorable changes in currency
exchange rates relative to the client’s base currency. A portfolio may have a significant portion of its assets
invested in securities denominated in a particular non-base currency, so the exchange rate between that
currency and the base currency is likely to have a significant impact on the value of the portfolio.
Exposure to a particular currency that Artisan Partners believes is overvalued may be hedged. There can be
no guarantee that any hedging activity will be undertaken or, if undertaken, will be successful. Hedging
activity or use of forward foreign currency contracts may reduce the risk of loss from currency revaluations,
but also may reduce or limit the opportunity for gain. These actions also involve counterparty risk, which is
the risk that the contracting party will not fulfill its contractual obligation to deliver the currency
contracted for at the agreed upon price.
Debt Securities Risks. The value of a debt security changes in response to various factors, including, for
example, market-related factors, such as changes in interest rates or changes in the actual or perceived
ability of an issuer to meet its obligations. In general, the value of a debt security may fall in response to
increases in interest rates. The accounts may invest in debt securities without considering the maturity of
the instrument. The value of a security with a longer duration will be more sensitive to changes in interest
rates than a similar security with a shorter duration. As a result, changes in interest rates in the US and
outside the US may affect debt investments unfavorably.
Derivatives Risks. Artisan Partners’ use of derivatives may involve risks different from, or greater than, the
risks associated with investing in more traditional investments. Investments in derivatives are subject to
the risk that such investments will not perform as anticipated by Artisan Partners, cannot be closed out at a
favorable time or price, or will increase volatility in an account. The use of derivatives may create
investment leverage. In addition, when a derivative is used as a substitute for or alternative to a direct cash
investment, the transaction may not provide a return that corresponds precisely with that of the cash
investment. Derivatives may be difficult to value and highly illiquid, and there is a risk that the other party
to the derivative contract will fail to make required payments or otherwise to comply with the terms of the
contract.
Emerging and Developing Markets Risks. The risks of non-US investments typically are greater in
emerging, less developed and developing markets. For example, in addition to the risks associated with
investment in any non-US country, political, legal and economic structures in these less developed
countries may be new and changing rapidly, which may cause instability and greater risk of loss. Their
securities markets may be less developed and securities in those markets are generally more volatile and
less liquid than those in developed markets. Emerging and developing market countries are also more
likely to experience high levels of inflation, deflation or currency devaluations, which could hurt their
economies and securities markets. Certain emerging and developing markets also may face other
significant internal or external risks, including a heightened risk of war and ethnic, religious and racial
conflicts. In addition, governments in many emerging and developing market countries participate to a
significant degree in their economies and securities markets, which may impair investment and economic
growth of companies in those markets. Such markets may also be heavily reliant on non-US capital and,
therefore, vulnerable to capital flight.
Investing in emerging and developing market countries involves substantial risk due to, among other
reasons, limited information; higher brokerage costs; different accounting, auditing and financial reporting
standards; less developed legal systems and thinner trading markets as compared to those in developed
countries; and currency blockages or transfer restrictions. The securities markets of emerging and
developing market countries may be substantially smaller, less developed, less liquid and more volatile
than the major securities markets in the US and other developed nations. The limited size of many
securities markets in emerging and developing market countries and limited trading volume in issuers
compared to the volume in US securities or securities of issuers in other developed countries could cause
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prices to be erratic for reasons other than factors that affect the quality of the securities. In addition,
emerging and developing market countries’ exchanges and broker-dealers may generally be subject to
less regulation than their counterparts in developed countries. Brokerage commissions and dealer mark-
ups, custodial expenses and other transaction costs are generally higher in emerging and developing
market countries than in developed countries, all of which can increase account operating expenses
and/or negatively impact account performance.
Emerging and developing market countries may have different clearance and settlement procedures than
in the US, and in certain markets there may be times when settlements fail to keep pace with the volume
of securities transactions, making it difficult to conduct such transactions. Further, satisfactory custodial
services for investment securities may not be available in some emerging and developing market
countries, which may result in additional costs and delays in trading and settlement. The inability of an
account to make intended security purchases due to settlement problems or the risk of intermediary or
counterparty failures could cause an account to miss attractive investment opportunities. The inability to
dispose of a portfolio security due to settlement problems could result either in losses to an account due
to subsequent declines in the value of such portfolio security or, if the account has entered into a contract
to sell the security, could result in possible liability to the purchaser.
China is an emerging market and demonstrates significantly higher volatility from time to time in
comparison to developed markets. The central government has historically exercised substantial control
over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state
ownership and actions of the Chinese central and local government authorities continue to have a
substantial effect on economic conditions in China. Export growth continues to be a major driver of
China's rapid economic growth. Reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, institution of
tariffs or other trade barriers, or a downturn in any of the economies of China's key trading partners may
have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy. Recent developments in relations between the US and
China have heightened concerns of increased tariffs and restrictions on trade between the two countries.
An increase in tariffs or trade restrictions, or even the threat of such developments, could lead to a
significant reduction in international trade, which could have a negative impact on China's export industry
and a commensurately negative impact on a strategy that invests in securities and instruments that are
economically tied to China.
Growth and Value Investing Risks. Growth and value stocks tend to be in favor and out of favor with
investors at different times and each may underperform other asset types during given periods. A growth
company may never achieve the earnings growth that the investment team anticipated. The price of a
value company’s stock may never reach the level that the investment team considers its intrinsic value.
High Portfolio Turnover Risks. Certain strategies may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio
securities. High portfolio turnover may result in increased transaction costs to an account, including
brokerage commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs on the sale of the securities and on
reinvestment in other securities. The sale of portfolio securities may result in the realization of higher
capital gains or losses as compared to a strategy with a less active trading strategy. These effects of higher
than normal portfolio turnover may adversely affect account performance.
High Yield Securities (“Junk Bond”) Risks. Fixed income instruments rated below investment grade, or
unrated securities that are determined by Artisan Partners to be of comparable quality, are high yield, high
risk bonds, commonly known as “junk bonds.” These bonds are predominantly speculative. Such bonds are
usually issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by companies with
questionable credit strength. These bonds have a higher degree of default risk and may be less liquid than
higher-rated bonds. These securities may be subject to greater price volatility due to such factors as
specific corporate developments, interest rate sensitivity, negative perceptions of junk bonds generally,
and less secondary market liquidity.
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Interest Rate Risks. The values of debt instruments may fall in response to increases in interest rates. The
value of a security with a longer duration will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than a similar
security with a shorter duration. Given the current low interest rate environment, risks associated with
rising rates are heightened. If interest rates rise, repayments of principal on certain debt securities,
including loans, may occur at a slower rate than expected and the expected length of repayment of those
securities could increase as a result.
Investing in IPOs Risks. The performance of an account may be affected by investments in initial public
offerings (IPOs). The impact of IPOs on performance depends on the strength of the IPO market and the
size of the account. When an account is small, IPOs may greatly increase the account’s total return.
However, IPOs may have less impact on a larger account. Investing in IPOs is risky and the prices of stocks
purchased in IPOs tend to fluctuate more widely than stocks of companies that have been publicly traded
for a longer period of time. Stocks purchased in IPOs generally do not have a trading history and
information about the companies may be available for very limited periods. An account may hold
securities purchased in an IPO for a very short period of time. As a result, the account’s investments in IPOs
may increase portfolio turnover, which may increase brokerage and administrative costs. At any particular
time or from time to time an account may not be able to invest in securities issued in IPOs, or invest to the
extent desired because, for example, only a small portion (if any) of the securities being offered in an IPO
may be made available to the account. In addition, under certain market conditions a relatively small
number of companies may issue securities in IPOs. Similarly, as the number of clients advised by Artisan
Partners to which IPO securities are allocated increases, the number of securities issued to any one account
may decrease. The investment performance of an account during periods when it is unable to invest
significantly or at all in IPOs may be lower than during periods when the account is able to do so. There
can be no assurance that investments in IPOs will be available to an account or improve an account’s
performance. IPO investments are allocated among accounts managed by Artisan Partners in accordance
with Artisan Partners’ allocation policy, which is explained in more detail in the section of this brochure
below entitled “Brokerage Practices.”
Leverage Risks. Certain transactions can result in leverage and may expose an account to greater risk and
increased costs. These transactions can include the use of certain derivatives (for example, swap
transactions and options), entering into certain loan transactions that entail an obligation by the account
to extend credit in the future (for example, revolving credit facilities), and the purchase of when-issued and
delayed-delivery securities. Leverage generally has the effect of increasing the amounts of loss or gain an
account might realize, and creates the likelihood of greater volatility of the value of the account’s
investments. In transactions involving leverage, a relatively small market movement or change in another
underlying indicator can lead to significantly larger losses to the account. There is generally the risk of loss
in excess of invested capital. The use of leverage may result in an account liquidating portfolio positions
when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its contractual obligations or to meet applicable asset
segregation or position coverage requirements.
Liquidity Risks. Liquidity risk is the risk that Artisan Partners may be unable to sell a portfolio investment at
a desirable time or at the value Artisan Partners has placed on the investment. It may be more difficult for
an account to determine a fair value of an illiquid investment than that of a more liquid comparable
investment.
Loan Risks. Investments in loans are generally subject to the same risks as investments in other types of
debt obligations, including, among others, the credit risk of nonpayment of principal and interest. In
addition, in many cases loans are subject to the risks associated with below investment grade securities.
Artisan Partners may invest in loans made in connection with highly leveraged transactions, which are
subject to greater credit and liquidity risks than other types of loans. Although the senior loans in which
Artisan Partners will invest may be secured by specific collateral, there can be no assurance that liquidation
of such collateral would satisfy the borrower's obligation in the event of nonpayment of scheduled interest
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or principal, or that such collateral could be readily liquidated. In the event of the bankruptcy of a
borrower, an account may experience delays or limitations with respect to its ability to realize the benefits
of the collateral securing a loan or could recover nothing of what it is owed on the loan. Uncollateralized
(i.e., non-secured) loans are subject to greater risk of loss (i.e., nonpayment) in the event of default than
secured loans since they will not afford recourse to collateral. Investments in loans may be difficult to value
and may be illiquid, including due to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. Transactions in many loans
settle on a delayed basis, and an account may not receive the proceeds from the sale of a loan for a
substantial period after the sale. As a result, sale proceeds related to the sale of loans may not be available
to make additional investments until a substantial period after the sale of the loans. In addition, it is unclear
whether certain loans and other forms of direct indebtedness offer securities law protections against fraud
and misrepresentation.
Market Risks. Various market risks can affect the price or liquidity of an issuer’s securities in which an
account may invest. Returns from the securities in which an account invests may underperform returns
from the various general securities markets or different asset classes. Different types of securities tend to go
through cycles of outperformance and underperformance in comparison to the general securities markets.
Adverse events occurring with respect to an issuer’s performance or financial position can depress the
value of the issuer’s securities. The liquidity in a market for a particular security will affect its value and may
be affected by factors relating to the issuer, as well as the depth of the market for that security. Other
market risks that can affect value include a market’s current attitudes about types of securities, market
reactions to political or economic events, including litigation, and tax and regulatory effects (including lack
of adequate regulations for a market or particular type of instrument).
Securities markets may experience periods of high volatility and reduced liquidity in response to
governmental actions or intervention, economic or market developments, or other external factors.
Securities may be difficult to value during such periods. These risks may be heightened for fixed income
securities due to the current low interest rate environment.
Federal, state, and other governments, their regulatory agencies, or self-regulatory organizations may take
actions that affect the regulation of the securities in which an account invests or the issuers of such
securities in ways that are unforeseeable. Legislation or regulation also may change the way in which the
accounts or Artisan Partners are regulated. Such legislation, regulation, or other government action could
affect an account’s performance.
Political, social or financial instability, civil unrest and acts of terrorism are other potential risks that can
adversely affect an investment in a security or in markets or issuers generally.
A widespread health crisis such as a global pandemic can cause substantial market volatility. For example,
the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused significant disruptions to global business activity, including
closed international borders, travel restrictions, prolonged quarantines, disruptions to supply chains and
customer activity, as well as general concern and uncertainty. This health crisis, and future outbreaks of
other infectious diseases, could affect the economies of many countries, individual companies and markets
in significant and unforeseen ways.
Non-Diversification Risks. Certain strategies may invest a large portion of an account’s assets in securities
of a small number of issuers, which means a single issuer’s performance will affect the account’s
performance more than if the account were invested in a larger number of issuers.
Non-US Investing Risks
. Non-US securities as an asset class may underperform US securities and may be
more volatile than US securities. Investments in non-US securities (including, but not limited to, depositary
receipts and participation certificates) and to securities of issuers with significant exposure to non-US
markets are subject to risks. These risks include currency exchange rate fluctuation; less available public
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information about the issuers of securities; less stringent regulatory standards; lack of uniform accounting,
auditing and financial reporting standards; and country risks, including less liquidity, high inflation rates,
unfavorable economic practices, political instability and expropriation and nationalization risks.
Continuing uncertainty as to the status of the Euro and the European Monetary Union (“EMU”) and the
potential for certain countries to withdraw from the institution has created volatility in currency and
financial markets. The United Kingdom left the European Union effective 31 January 2020 (commonly
referred to as “Brexit”). Brexit and the consequences of Brexit may result in a sustained period of market
uncertainty, as the United Kingdom seeks to negotiate the terms of its exit. In this regard, there is a
significant degree of uncertainty about how negotiations relating to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal and
new trade agreements will be conducted, as well as the potential consequences and precise timeline of
Brexit. Brexit and the consequences of Brexit may also destabilize some or all of the other EU member
countries and/or the Eurozone. These developments could result in losses to a client, as there may be
negative effects on the value of the client’s investments and/or on the client’s ability to enter into certain
transactions or value certain investments, and these developments may make it more difficult for a client
to exit certain investments at an advantageous time or price.
Operational and Cybersecurity Risks. Artisan Partners is heavily reliant upon internal and third party
technology systems and networks to view, process, transmit and store information, including sensitive
client and proprietary information, and to conduct many of its business activities and transactions with its
clients, vendors/service providers (collectively, “vendors”) and other third parties. Maintaining the integrity
of these systems and networks is critical to the protection of its proprietary information and its clients’
information. Artisan Partners relies on its (and its vendors’) information and cyber security infrastructure,
policies, procedures and capabilities to protect those systems and the data that reside on or are
transmitted through them. These systems are subject to a number of different threats or risks (including,
cyber-attacks) that could adversely affect Artisan Partners and its vendors and clients, despite efforts to
adopt technologies, processes and practices intended to mitigate these risks. Power or communications
outages, acts of God, epidemics and pandemics, information technology equipment malfunctions,
operational errors and inaccuracies within software or data processing systems may also disrupt business
operations or impact critical data. Market events also may occur at a pace that overloads current
information technology and communication systems and processes of Artisan Partners, its vendors or
other market participants, impacting the ability to conduct operations.
Participation Certificates Risks. The price, performance, liquidity and value of a participation certificate are
all linked directly to an underlying security or securities, so that investing in a participation certificate
subjects the portfolios to the risks associated with an investment in the underlying equity security or
securities. Investing in a participation certificate also exposes the portfolios to the counterparty risk that the
bank or broker-dealer that issues the certificate will not fulfill its contractual obligation to timely pay the
holder the amount owed under the certificate. In addition, a portfolio typically has no rights under a
participation certificate against the issuer of the securities underlying the participation certificate and is
therefore typically unable to exercise any rights with respect to the issuer (including, without limitation,
voting rights and fraud or bankruptcy claims). There is also no assurance that there will be a secondary
trading market for a participation certificate or that the trading price of a participation certificate will equal
the value of the underlying security.
Private Placement and Restricted Securities Risks. In addition to the general risks to which all securities
are subject, securities acquired in a private placement generally are subject to strict restrictions on resale,
and there may be no liquid secondary market or ready purchaser for such securities. Therefore, Artisan
Partners may be unable to dispose of such securities when it desires to do so, or at a favorable time or
price.
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Risks of Emphasizing a Region, Country, Sector or Industry. If an account has a higher percentage of its
total assets invested in a particular region, country, sector or industry, changes affecting that region,
country, sector or industry may have a significant impact on the performance of the account’s overall
portfolio.
Short Position Risks. A short position may be created by borrowing an instrument from a broker or other
institution and selling it to establish a short position in the instrument (otherwise known as “short selling”).
Short selling involves the risks of: increased leverage, and its accompanying potential for losses; the
potential inability to reacquire a security in a timely manner, or at an acceptable price; the possibility of the
lender terminating the loan at any time, forcing the portfolio to close the transaction under unfavorable
conditions; the additional costs that may be incurred; and the potential loss of investment flexibility caused
by the obligation to provide collateral to the lender and set aside assets to cover the open position. There
can be no assurance that a portfolio will be able to close out a short sale position at any particular time or
at an acceptable price. A short position may also be created by entering into a derivative transaction with
respect to a reference instrument. A short position may make a profit or incur a loss depending upon
whether the value of the position decreases or increases, respectively, between the date the short position
is established and the date the borrowed instrument is replaced or the transaction is otherwise closed out.
An increase in the value of an instrument with respect to which a short position has been created will
result in a loss, and there can be no assurance that the position can be closed out at any particular time or
at an acceptable price. The potential loss from a short position is unlimited.
Small and Medium-Sized Company Risks. Securities of small and medium-sized companies tend to be
more volatile and less liquid than securities of large companies. Compared to large companies, small and
medium-sized companies typically may have analyst coverage by fewer brokerage firms. For this reason,
they are more likely to be trading at prices that reflect incomplete or inaccurate information. Smaller
companies may have a shorter history of operations, less access to financing, and a less diversified product
line, making them more susceptible to market pressures and more likely to have volatile security prices.
During some periods, securities of small and medium-sized companies, as an asset class, have
underperformed the securities of larger companies.
Stressed and Distressed Instruments Risks. Investments in the securities of financially stressed or
distressed issuers involve substantial risks, including the risk that all or a portion of principal will not be
repaid. These securities may present a substantial risk of default or may be in default at the time of
investment. An account may incur additional expenses to the extent it is required to seek recovery upon a
default in the payment of principal or interest on its portfolio holdings. As with any issuer, the strategy’s
investment team’s judgments about the credit quality of a financially stressed or distressed issuer and the
relative value of its securities may prove to be wrong.
Total Return Swap Risks. Total return swap agreements are contracts between parties in which one party
agrees to make payments to the other party based on the change in the market value of a specified index,
asset or basket of assets. In addition to the risk of investing in the underlying specified index, asset or
basket of assets, such swap agreements pose the risk that a party will default on its payment obligations
thereunder.
Valuation Risks. Investments are valued in accordance with Artisan Partners’ valuation policies. The
valuation of any investment involves inherent uncertainty. The value of a security determined in
accordance with the valuation policies may differ materially from the value that could have been realized
in an actual sale or transfer fora variety of reasons, including the timing of the transaction and liquidity in
the market. Certain investments in which the account may invest, including, for example, high yield bonds,
loans, derivatives, complex securities and thinly-traded or illiquid investments, may be more difficult to
value accurately, especially during periods of market disruption or extreme market volatility.
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Artisan Partners and its management personnel have not been involved in a legal or disciplinary event that
Artisan Partners believes to be material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of its advisory
business or the integrity of its management personnel.
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Artisan Partners is wholly owned by Artisan Partners Holdings LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as
described in more detail within the section of this brochure entitled “Advisory Business.” Artisan Partners
Holdings LP also owns 100% of the ownership interests of Artisan Partners Distributors LLC (“Artisan
Distributors”), a registered, limited purpose broker-dealer. Artisan Distributors serves as distributor of the
securities of Artisan Partners Funds and the Private Funds and as sub-distributor or placement agent to
Artisan Partners Global Funds. Artisan Distributors does not engage in the execution of securities
transactions and is not engaged by Artisan Partners to execute securities transactions for the accounts of
Artisan Partners’ clients.
Artisan Partners Holdings LP also owns all of the ownership interests of Artisan Partners Limited, a private
limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales. The sole function of Artisan Partners
Limited is to serve as the founder member of Artisan Partners UK LLP, a limited liability partnership
organized under the laws of England and Wales. Like Artisan Partners, Artisan Partners UK LLP is an
investment adviser registered with the SEC. Artisan Partners UK LLP serves as a distributor of the shares
offered by Artisan Partners Global Funds. Artisan Partners UK LLP was founded in December 2009. Its
principal address is 25 St. James’s Street, 3rd Floor, London, SW1A 1HA. More information about Artisan
Partners UK LLP can be found on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov, including its firm brochure.
Artisan Partners Holdings LP is also the managing member of Artisan Partners Europe Holdings LLC, a
limited liability company organized under the laws of Delaware. The sole function of Artisan Partners
Europe Holdings LLC is to serve as the sole shareholder of APEL Financial Distribution Services Limited,
which operates under the registered trading name “Artisan Partners Europe” and is a private company
limited by shares organized under the laws of Ireland. Artisan Partners Europe’s main business is the
performance of cross-border marketing and distribution in the European Union of Artisan Partners’ services
and units or shares in Artisan Partners Global Funds and other funds managed by Artisan Partners.
As described above, Artisan Partners is the adviser to Artisan Partners Funds and Artisan Partners Global
Funds. Certain employees of Artisan Partners serve as directors and/or officers of Artisan Partners Funds
and Artisan Partners Global Funds. More information about Artisan Partners Funds and Artisan Partners
Global Funds, including the list of officers and directors, investment objectives, risks, and charges and
expenses, can be found in the relevant prospectus.
Artisan Partners sponsors and serves as investment adviser to unregistered pooled investment vehicles,
referred to herein as the Private Funds. An affiliate of Artisan Partners acts as general partner for each
Private Fund formed as a partnership, and certain employees of Artisan Partners act as directors and/or
officers for each Private Fund formed as a company. The Private Funds are offered only to accredited
investors and qualified purchasers. More information about the Private Funds, including investment
objectives, risks, fees, charges and expenses, can be found in each Private Fund’s offering memorandum.
Artisan Partners does not believe that these affiliations create a material conflict of interest with its clients
except potentially with respect to performance-based compensation from the Private Funds, which is
described above in “Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management.”
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PERSONAL TRADING
Artisan Partners has adopted a written Code of Ethics and Insider Trading Policy (the “Code”) that, among
other things, governs the personal securities transactions of its covered persons. Covered persons are
generally personnel of Artisan Partners and its affiliates and contractors of Artisan Partners. Artisan Partners
will provide a copy of the Code to any client or potential client upon request or as required by applicable
law.
The Code requires covered persons to conduct personal securities transactions in a manner that does not
interfere with transactions on behalf of Artisan Partners’ clients and does not take inappropriate advantage
of their positions and access to information that comes with such positions. The Code requires pre-
approval of most personal securities transactions believed to present a potentially meaningful risk of a
conflict of interest (including acquisitions of securities as part of an initial public offering or private
placement). The Code provides that Artisan Partners’ compliance team will review such personal securities
transactions and determine, among other things, whether the acquisition is consistent with applicable
regulatory requirements and the purposes of the Code and its underlying policies. In addition, the Code
requires reports of personal securities transactions (which generally are in the form of duplicate
confirmations and brokerage account statements) to be filed with Artisan Partners’ compliance
department at least quarterly. Those reports are reviewed for conflicts, or potential conflicts, with client
transactions. In addition, Artisan Partners has adopted a Gifts and Business Entertainment policy relating to
the making, receipt and reporting of gifts and business entertainment.
The Code prohibits covered persons from knowingly purchasing from or selling to any client any security
or other property except securities issued by that client, or except as approved by compliance. The Code
does not prohibit purchases of client products or services that are available to the general public. The
Code also contains policies designed to prevent the misuse of material non-public information and to
protect the confidential information of Artisan Partners’ clients. The operation of those policies and of
applicable securities laws may prevent the execution of an otherwise desirable purchase or sale in a public
securities transaction in a client account if Artisan Partners believes that it is or may be in possession of
material non-public information regarding the issuer that would be the subject of that transaction.
Accordingly, should a covered person voluntarily or involuntarily come into possession of material non-
public information with respect to an issuer (for example, through conversations with a company’s
management team), they typically will be prohibited from communicating such information to, or using
such information for the benefit of, clients, which will limit the ability of clients to buy or sell certain
investments in public securities transactions. In certain situations, Artisan Partners has established
information barriers between certain of its investment teams and/or other Artisan Partners personnel that
limit access to information between teams. Artisan Partners may choose to receive material non-public
information and may create information barriers around persons having access to such information
(“walled-off personnel”) to limit the restrictions on others at Artisan Partners. Those measures will impair
the ability of teams and walled-off personnel from accessing information from or providing information to
others at Artisan Partners. Artisan Partners will not disclose such information to, or use such information for
the benefit of, any person (including clients).
Artisan Partners buys and/or sells securities for client accounts that Artisan Partners also buys or sells for
itself or its affiliates, or that covered persons buy or sell for themselves, including the purchase or sale of a
security for a client account when such security is already held by Artisan Partners, an affiliate or a covered
person or in which Artisan Partners, its affiliates, or a covered person has a financial interest. Those
investments may give Artisan Partners an incentive to buy or sell a security for clients’ accounts in order to
bolster the personal investment. However, Artisan Partners and its covered persons have a duty to put the
interests of Artisan Partners’ clients ahead of their own personal investments, as set forth in the Code. In
addition, all personal trades by covered persons in securities also held in client accounts are reviewed by
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Artisan Partners’ compliance personnel in an effort to detect any patterns or circumstances potentially
suggesting the existence of “front-running” or other behavior prohibited under the Code. Personal
transactions for covered persons are subject to preclearance requirements under the Code and generally
are not permitted to be executed if a client transaction is pending in the same security.
With prior written approval, Artisan Partners will allow a covered person to serve as a director of a for-profit
company or will allow a covered person to take a significant or controlling interest in a for-profit company.
Because of the likelihood of being in the possession of, and the heightened risk of misuse, or allegations of
misuse, of material non-public information and potential conflicts of interest, Artisan Partners does not
permit investment by client accounts or by covered persons in securities of any issuer of which a covered
person is a director and limits or restricts investment by client accounts or by covered persons in securities
of any issuer of which a covered person is a significant owner, except that the covered person who is the
director or significant owner may purchase and sell that company’s securities for his or her own account or
for the account of his or her immediate family members. This prohibition may foreclose investment
opportunities that would be available if the covered person were not a director or significant owner.
A client’s portfolio may hold securities of an issuer in which a shareholder of APAM or partner of Artisan
Partners Holdings LP (by which Artisan Partners is wholly owned) has an interest. The interests of
shareholders of APAM and partners of Artisan Partners Holdings LP who are not actively involved in Artisan
Partners’ business in companies in which client accounts may invest may be significant or controlling
interests, potentially providing Artisan Partners an incentive to invest client assets in these companies.
However, those persons have no involvement or participation in Artisan Partners’ investment decisions on
behalf of clients. In addition, each investment for a client account must meet Artisan Partners’ investment
criteria for the relevant strategy, as more fully described in the section of this brochure entitled “Methods
of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.”
Transactions in a security on behalf of Artisan Partners, its covered persons and accounts in which Artisan
Partners or its affiliates have an interest may be aggregated with transactions in the same security for client
accounts. If that occurs, all of those aggregated transactions will pay the broker the same average price for
the security and pay the same commission rate for trade execution. From time to time, Artisan Partners
uses a proprietary account to evaluate the viability of a strategy or bridge what would otherwise be a gap
in a performance track record. These and other proprietary or similar accounts that may exist from time to
time are, in general, treated like client accounts for purposes of allocation of investment opportunities. To
the extent there is overlap between the investments of one or more of these accounts and the accounts of
Artisan Partners’ clients managed in the same strategy, portfolio transactions in the strategy generally will
be aggregated by broker, where practicable, and allocated in accordance with Artisan Partners’ written
allocation procedures among participating accounts, including the proprietary and other accounts. Artisan
Partners believes that aggregation and allocation of trades as described in its written procedures mitigates
any conflict of interest arising from proprietary investments in the same securities held by clients and the
market impact that could result from such proprietary trading activity if conducted on a stand-alone basis.
For more information about Artisan Partners’ allocation policy, please see the section of this brochure
below entitled “Brokerage Practices.”
Artisan Partners’ written policies prohibit Artisan Partners and its employees from making any political or
charitable contributions for the purpose of obtaining or retaining potential or existing clients. Employees
are permitted to make personal political or charitable contributions in accordance with applicable law and
Artisan Partners’ policies. Employees are required to obtain pre-approval before they make any
contributions to a political candidate, government official, political party or political action committee.
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Artisan Partners generally enters into discretionary arrangements with clients, pursuant to which Artisan
Partners determines which securities are bought and sold for the account, the total amount of each
purchase and sale, the broker-dealers to be used and the compensation, if any, to be paid to broker-
dealers to effect the transactions. These determinations are generally made without prior consultation with
the client. Artisan Partners’ authority may be subject to conditions imposed by the client, for example,
where the client restricts or prohibits transactions in certain securities or types of securities. In some cases,
pursuant to the advisory relationship, Artisan Partners has the authority to enter into an over-the-counter
derivative relationship and transaction related documentation, repurchase agreements, futures and
cleared derivatives agreements, listed options agreements, prime brokerage and securities lending
agreements, securities forward agreements and other brokerage and/or trading agreements in connection
with the trading of certain securities or instruments.
In a model portfolio arrangement with a sponsor of a managed account program, Artisan Partners is not
responsible for determining which securities to buy or sell and is not responsible for executing such trades
for the sponsor’s client accounts. The sponsor is responsible for exercising investment discretion,
executing trades and seeking best execution.
Artisan Partners’ primary objective in effecting portfolio transactions is to seek the best result reasonably
available under the circumstances in connection with the execution of its clients’ securities transactions,
taking into account price, transaction costs, speed, likelihood of execution and settlement, size, nature of
the order and other relevant order execution considerations. Artisan Partners seeks to utilize those broker-
dealers and execution venues that enable Artisan Partners to obtain the best result for execution of orders.
A number of other subjective factors also enter into the decision to select a specific broker-dealer,
including but not limited to the following:
Artisan Partners’ knowledge of the financial stability, reputation, integrity and operational, investment
and research capabilities of the broker-dealer selected;
the broker-dealer’s willingness to commit its own capital to complete the transaction;
the broker-dealer’s ability to place difficult trades;
the sophistication of the broker-dealer’s trading facilities;
access provided by the broker-dealer to markets and limited investment opportunities, such as initial
public offerings;
whether executing the trade through an electronic communication network (“ECN”) can provide a
better combination of net price and execution; and
Artisan Partners’ knowledge of actual or apparent operational problems of any broker-dealer
considered.
In addition, Artisan Partners takes into account whether the broker-dealer provides the firm with brokerage
and research services, as described below, and the value of such brokerage and research services.
Recognizing the value of the items listed above, Artisan Partners may cause a client to pay a brokerage
commission in excess of that which another broker-dealer might have charged for effecting the same
transaction. Artisan Partners need not solicit competitive bids and does not have an obligation to seek the
lowest available commission cost or spread.
Artisan Partners maintains and periodically updates a list of approved broker-dealers that, in Artisan
Partners’ judgment, generally are able to provide the best result after taking into consideration the items
noted above. Evaluations of the services provided by broker-dealers, including the reasonableness of any
brokerage commissions based on the foregoing items, are made on an ongoing basis by Artisan Partners’
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staff while effecting portfolio transactions, subject to the oversight of, and review by, Artisan Partners’
trading oversight committee.
Artisan Partners does not consider, in selecting broker-dealers to be used in effecting securities
transactions for client accounts whether Artisan Partners or its affiliates received client referrals from the
broker-dealer. As a matter of policy, Artisan Partners does not compensate a broker-dealer for any
promotion or sale of shares of its mutual fund advisory clients (including Artisan Partners Funds) by
directing to the broker-dealer (i) securities transactions for a mutual fund advisory portfolio; or (ii) any
remuneration, including, but not limited to, any commission, mark-up, mark-down or other fee (or portion
thereof) received or to be received from mutual fund client portfolio transactions effected through any
other broker-dealer. Artisan Partners has adopted policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to
prevent: (1) the persons responsible for selecting broker-dealers to effect transactions in portfolio securities
(for example, trading desk personnel) from taking into account, in making those decisions, broker-dealers’
promotional or sales efforts on behalf of mutual fund advisory clients; and (2) Artisan Partners from
entering into any agreement or other understanding under which they direct or are expected to direct
brokerage transactions or revenue generated by those transactions to a broker-dealer to pay for
distribution of shares of its mutual fund advisory clients.
Transactions may also be made directly with the issuer of the security or the issuer’s underwriter. In
underwritten offerings, the price paid by a client typically includes a disclosed, fixed commission or
discount retained by the underwriter or dealer.
The broker-dealers Artisan Partners uses for fixed income transactions generally do not charge stated
commissions. The broker-dealers in fixed income securities make a profit through the “spread,” which is the
difference between the issuer’s fixed income security price and the marked-up price offered to buyers (in
an initial offering) or the difference between the quoted bid and ask prices (in secondary market trading).
Use of Client Commissions
Artisan Partners uses disclosed client commissions to pay for brokerage and research services (often
referred to as “soft dollar” benefits) if Artisan Partners determines that such items meet the criteria outlined
in its commission management policy. Artisan Partners’ and its affiliates’ use of client brokerage to acquire
brokerage and research services is intended to qualify for the safe harbor provided by Section 28(e) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and involves payment of agency commissions,
compensation on certain riskless principal transactions, and any other securities transactions, the
compensation on which qualifies for safe harbor treatment. The provision of brokerage and research
services is not generally considered with respect to transactions in fixed income securities, although
Artisan Partners receives research from brokers that are also used for fixed income transactions.
“Brokerage services” are products and services relating to the execution of the trade from the point at
which Artisan Partners communicates with the broker-dealer for the purposes of transmitting an order for
execution, through the point at which funds or securities are delivered or credited to a client’s account.
Eligible brokerage services must provide Artisan Partners with lawful and appropriate assistance in carrying
out its responsibilities to clients.
“Research services” include, but are not limited to, (i) research reports (including reports that are specific to
issuers, industries and/or geographic regions) and (ii) research-oriented data analytics and software
applications. Eligible research services must provide Artisan Partners with lawful and appropriate assistance
in making investment decisions. The types of research products and services that may be received in the
future, and were received by Artisan Partners during its last fiscal year, include:
research reports (including reports that are specific to issuers, industries and/or geographic regions);
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subscriptions to financial publications and research compilations that are not targeted to a wide, public
audience;
investment ideas;
access to the broker-dealer’s traders and analysts;
access to conferences and seminars that provide substantive content relating to issuers and industries;
access to management teams of companies with which the broker-dealer has a relationship;
access to groups of professionals with expertise in particular industries and/or subject matter areas;
research-oriented data analytics and software applications;
compilations of securities prices, earnings, dividends and similar market, financial and other economic
data;
financial modeling, including historical financials, projections and valuations;
securities quotation services; and
services related to economic and other consulting services.
Artisan Partners provides clients with detailed information about the research and other products and
services received by Artisan Partners in exchange for client brokerage upon client request or in accordance
with the terms set forth in the investment management agreement between Artisan Partners and the
client.
When Artisan Partners receives brokerage and research services in return for client commissions, it relieves
Artisan Partners of the expense it would otherwise bear in creating such items on its own or paying for
those items with its own funds, which provides an incentive to select a particular broker-dealer or venue
that will provide Artisan Partners with such brokerage and research services. However, Artisan Partners
chooses those broker-dealers and venues it believes are able to obtain the best result.
In some instances, Artisan Partners has an agreement or understanding with a broker-dealer or venue that
Artisan Partners will direct brokerage transactions to that broker-dealer or venue generating not less than a
stated dollar amount of commissions. In those instances, the obligations of Artisan Partners pursuant to
that agreement or understanding may, in some transactions, be an important or determining factor in the
selection of a broker-dealer or venue, even if another broker-dealer or venue might execute the same
transaction on comparable terms. Artisan Partners enters into such an agreement with a broker-dealer only
if, in the judgment of Artisan Partners, the benefits to its clients of the research products and/or services
provided outweigh any potential disadvantages to clients. In other instances, Artisan Partners has no
agreement or understanding with a broker-dealer that provides research products and/or services. Artisan
Partners identifies those broker-dealers that have provided it with research products or services and the
value of the research products or services they provided. Artisan Partners directs commissions generated
by its clients’ accounts in the aggregate to those broker-dealers to ensure the continued receipt of
research products and services that Artisan Partners believes are useful.
Artisan Partners has also entered into client commission sharing arrangements with certain broker-dealer
firms pursuant to which Artisan Partners executes securities transactions with such broker-dealers in order
to facilitate the receipt of research products and services provided by a party other than the executing
broker-dealer. A portion of the commission paid to the executing broker-dealer is retained by that broker-
dealer to compensate the broker-dealer for the execution services provided, while another portion is
credited for the provision of research products and services. Artisan Partners typically instructs the
providers of such research products or services (who may themselves be broker-dealers) to deliver an
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invoice for the research products or services directly to Artisan Partners, which coordinates payment of the
invoice by an executing broker-dealer from the accrued credits.
Artisan Partners uses research products and services provided by broker-dealers or venues in servicing the
accounts of any or all of its clients and Artisan Partners’ proprietary accounts (if any). Artisan Partners uses
client brokerage from discretionary accounts managed by an investment team for research products and
services used by that team. Subject to client restrictions and other account limitations, orders are generally
aggregated across accounts in a strategy for execution by a single broker. All accounts participating in an
aggregated trade pay the same commission rate for trade execution. Clients share research costs pro rata
by paying bundled commission rates or through commission sharing arrangements, except for clients
subject to legal restrictions on the use of their commissions to pay for certain research products and
services. In those cases, a client’s pro-rata cost of the products and services are borne by the client
(through an increased management fee or separate arrangement), by a third-party or by Artisan Partners.
For example, Artisan Partners may agree to reimburse a client’s pro rata portion of research costs in
exchange for an increased management fee. Artisan Partners believes that its discretionary clients
generally share in the costs and benefits of the research and/or other services received by the relevant
Artisan Partners investment team in exchange for client brokerage in a fair and equitable manner. Non-
discretionary clients, including sponsors of model portfolio programs, do not bear the costs of the research
and other services generated by trading activity because Artisan Partners does not execute trades for these
clients.
Artisan Partners may in the future receive from a broker-dealer a product or service that is used for
investment research and for administrative, marketing or other non-research purposes (so called “mixed-
use” products and services). In those cases, Artisan Partners would make a good faith effort to determine
the proportion of such products or services that are considered used for investment research. The portion
of the costs of such products or services attributable to research usage would be paid through
commissions generated by client transactions. Artisan Partners would pay the portion of the costs
attributable to non-research usage of those products or services from its own funds.
The research products and services received by Artisan Partners or its affiliates and obtained through the
use of client commission dollars include proprietary research (in which the research products or services
are prepared and provided by the executing broker-dealer) and third-party research from independent
research providers and broker-dealers through commission sharing arrangements (in which the executing
broker-dealer makes a payment on Artisan Partners’ behalf and at Artisan Partners’ direction to a third-
party who has independently prepared the research products or services).
Commission Recapture Programs
Artisan Partners does not recommend that its clients participate in commission recapture programs. Some
clients, however, do participate in commission recapture programs, in which a broker-dealer through
which transactions for that client are executed or cleared, in return for that business, pays the client a cash
rebate, provides products or services to the client, bears some of the client’s expenses, or provides some
other kind of benefit to the client. Should a client request that Artisan Partners support its use of
commission recapture programs, and Artisan Partners agrees to do so, Artisan Partners will generally
determine the extent of available opportunities to direct trades to a client’s recapture program as
conditions warrant and only on a reasonable-efforts basis.
Trade Aggregation and Allocation
Artisan Partners seeks to treat all of its clients fairly when allocating investment opportunities among
clients. Artisan Partners has compliance policies and procedures intended to address conflicts of interest
relating to the allocation of investment opportunities, which are reviewed regularly by Artisan Partners.
Allocations of aggregated trades, particularly trade orders that were only partially completed due to
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limited availability (for example, initial public offerings) and allocation of investment opportunities
generally, could raise a potential conflict of interest. The potential conflicts between accounts in a strategy
are mitigated because Artisan Partners’ investment teams generally try to keep all client portfolios in a
strategy invested in the same securities with approximately the same weightings (with exceptions for
client-imposed restrictions). Nevertheless, investment opportunities likely will be allocated differently
among accounts in a strategy due to the particular characteristics of an account, such as size of the
account, cash position, tax status, risk tolerance and investment restrictions or for other reasons. In
addition, there are instances where a particular security is held by, or appropriate for, more than one
investment strategy (“cross holdings”) due to the overlap of their investment universes; however,
investment decisions for each strategy are generally made by the relevant investment team independently
of investment decisions for another strategy, such that investment opportunities likely will be allocated
differently among client accounts across such investment strategies.
“Same way” transactions (that is, all buys or all sells) in a security held by more than one account in a
strategy are generally aggregated across all participating accounts in the strategy and same way
transactions may be aggregated across accounts in different strategies when Artisan Partners considers
doing so appropriate and practicable under the circumstances (for example, Artisan Partners has
established certain information barriers and policies between certain of its investment teams that would
make trade aggregation impracticable). The portfolio manager of one strategy may impose a price limit or
some other differing instruction and so may decide not to participate in the aggregated order. In those
cases, a trader works both trades in the market at the same time, subject to the requirements of Artisan
Partners’ allocation policy. When orders for a trade in a security are opposite to one another (that is, one
portfolio is buying a security, while another is selling the security) and the trader receives a buy order while
a sell order is pending (or vice versa), the traders will seek to mitigate the risk of inadvertent cross trades by
(i) utilizing different brokers or venues, or (ii) utilizing brokers or venues that maintain crossing prevention
controls.
Artisan Partners may sell a security short even if the same security, or another security of the same issuer, is
held long in another account managed by Artisan Partners. Similarly, Artisan Partners is permitted to
purchase a security long even if the same security, or another security of the same issuer, is, or has been,
sold short in another account managed by it. Artisan Partners could be viewed as having a potential
conflict of interest if it sells short certain securities in a client account while holding the same securities
long in other client accounts. Conversely, Artisan Partners could be viewed as harming the performance of
its clients who hold a long position in the same security or other similar securities (e.g. securities in the
same sector as the security sold short) for the benefit of its clients who are selling the security short if the
short-selling transactions cause the market value of the security or similar securities to decline. Artisan
Partners has in place policies and procedures that it believes are reasonably designed to identify and
resolve actual and potential conflicts of interest related to short selling securities.
Waivers of Artisan Partners’ allocation policy may be made with approval in advance by one of certain
designated members of Artisan Partners’ management who are not part of the portfolio management
process.
Certain clients have restrictions prohibiting the execution of transactions through one or more designated
broker-dealers or they may maintain other restrictions or account limitations (e.g., instrument restrictions)
that impact Artisan Partners’ ability to aggregate a given trade. As a result, Artisan Partners might be
required to separate the client’s transaction from the aggregated transactions for other clients and send
the client’s transaction for execution to a different broker-dealer or at a different point in time. A client
transaction being executed separately as a result of the client’s restriction is typically placed in the market
after the aggregated transaction for all other Artisan Partners clients is placed in the market. In addition,
substitute transactions may be placed in a different instrument before or after the aggregated transaction
(e.g., physical shares rather than options) and/or may not be placed at all. As a result, the trade or
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substitute trade for the restricted account is likely to be executed at a different point in time as compared
to the aggregated transaction, which is likely to result in the restricted account receiving different returns
than other clients.
Artisan Partners uses its best efforts to execute all transactions accurately and to comply with all client
restrictions and directions, but errors that could impact client accounts occur from time to time. At least
one member of Artisan Partners’ management who is not part of the portfolio management process
reviews each error to determine if a client has suffered a loss as a result of the error, and the course of
action to be taken. In some circumstances, corrective action may not be necessary or appropriate. In other
circumstances, Artisan Partners may take action to return the client’s account to the position it would have
been in but for Artisan Partners’ error, at Artisan Partners’ expense. When possible, Artisan Partners will
avoid settling erroneous transactions in client accounts by directing the settlement to an account
maintained by Artisan Partners. In such cases, Artisan Partners will receive the gains or losses from the error
while the client will not benefit from any gains nor sustain any losses from the error.
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The Artisan Partners’ portfolio manager(s) responsible for a strategy continuously reviews the securities
held by clients in that strategy. Artisan Partners’ traders also review the securities comprising the portfolio
of each investment advisory account at least weekly. Oversight of investment activity in client portfolios is
also conducted by Artisan Partners’ portfolio oversight group through a range of different methods,
including, for example, automated pre-trade and post-trade testing and manual reviews. Members of
Artisan Partners’ investment operations team conduct a comprehensive review of each investment
strategy at least quarterly. That review includes an analysis of portfolio characteristics, risk profile and
performance for consistency with expectations for the stated investment strategy, policy and objective. In
addition, Artisan Partners’ compliance personnel are responsible for ongoing compliance oversight of
Artisan Partners’ investment activities.
Artisan Partners provides to clients (other than investment company clients), no less frequently than
quarterly, a written report that includes a statement of all assets in the account at the end of the period, a
written calculation of investment performance, and such other information or reports as may be required
by the relevant client account’s governing documents. Artisan Partners will furnish any additional or
supplemental reports a client may reasonably request. Investment company clients of Artisan Partners
receive reports as requested by their boards or as required by relevant laws, including the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended. Investors in the Private Funds receive regular performance updates
and annual audited financial statements as well as monthly statements.
In addition to the quarterly reports provided to each client showing the investment performance achieved
in the client’s account, Artisan Partners also calculates composite returns for each of its strategies that the
firm uses in marketing its services to prospective clients and may also provide the returns to existing
clients.
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Artisan Partners does not receive economic benefits for providing investment advice or other advisory
services to its clients from parties other than its clients. As explained in “Brokerage Practices” above, Artisan
Partners does, however, receive certain brokerage and research services in connection with the execution
of securities transactions for client accounts.
From time to time, Artisan Partners enters into agreements that compensate, directly or indirectly, a person
who is not an Artisan Partners associate for client referrals only if such compensation is in compliance with
applicable laws. Artisan Partners may pay cash compensation equal to a specified dollar amount or a
specified percentage of the asset-based fees received by Artisan Partners from accounts obtained through
the person. Any such payments will comply, as required by law, with Rule 206(4)-3 under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940. In addition, Artisan Partners from time to time pays a fee to facilitate the inclusion of
information about the firm in databases maintained by certain third-party data providers who in turn make
such information available to their investment consultant clients.
Each Artisan Partners’ investment professional participates in a bonus pool, the aggregate amount of
which is determined by reference to the firm’s revenues received in connection with accounts managed
by the team of which that professional is a part. Certain Artisan Partners’ marketing and client service
professionals participate in a bonus pool the amount of which is generally a percentage of the firm’s
revenues received in connection with accounts serviced by the team of which that professional is a
member.
Artisan Partners, from time to time, has business relationships with organizations that are, or that are
affiliated with organizations that are, investment consultants. Artisan Partners, from time to time, purchases
products or services, including index data and/or investment manager performance data, from certain of
those consulting firms. For example, Artisan Partners purchases index data from Russell Investments. From
time to time, Artisan Partners also engages one or more of those consultants to perform consulting
services with respect to specific matters relating to Artisan Partners’ business.
In addition, Artisan Partners’ marketing and client service professionals call on and occasionally entertain or
make gifts (within certain limits as more fully set forth in the Gifts and Business Entertainment policy) to
representatives of investment consulting firms and other intermediaries in the process of soliciting new
business and providing services to existing client relationships. From time to time, Artisan Partners and/or
its employees also make charitable contributions to organizations associated or affiliated with clients
and/or investment consultants and other intermediaries. Those consultants provide services to clients of
Artisan Partners and/or investors in the shares of investment companies to which Artisan Partners serves as
investment adviser. Such services include, but are not limited to, assisting in the selection of investment
advisers to manage their clients’ assets and assisting in the selection of investment companies to serve as
investment options for their clients. Artisan Partners also provides cash or non-cash support for
educational, training, marketing and other events sponsored by consulting firms.
Artisan Partners, in its capacity as investment adviser to Artisan Partners Funds; Artisan Distributors, in its
capacity as distributor of the shares of Artisan Partners Funds; and Artisan Partners UK LLP, in its capacity as
distributor of the shares of Artisan Partners Global Funds, have relationships with certain banks, broker-
dealers, and benefit plan recordkeepers through which shares of Artisan Partners Funds or Artisan Partners
Global Funds are made available for purchase by investors. (For ease of reference, in this paragraph Artisan
Partners Funds and Artisan Partners Global Funds are referred to collectively as the “Funds” and Artisan
Partners and Artisan Partners UK LLP are referred to collectively as “Artisan.”) Certain of those parties are
engaged in, or have affiliates engaged in, the business of providing investment consulting services. Artisan
generally pays a fee for the marketing and distribution services provided by such parties in connection
with the sale of shares of the Funds, which is typically a percentage of the value of the shares of the Funds
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held by investors through investment accounts with such parties. These fee arrangements may create an
incentive for such parties to promote or recommend the Funds. Artisan also occasionally provides business
entertainment or makes gifts (within certain limits as more fully set forth in the Gifts and Business
Entertainment policy) to representatives of those organizations, and provides cash or non-cash support for
educational, training, marketing and other events. These banks, broker-dealers, and benefit plan
recordkeepers, as nominee or otherwise for the benefit of their clients, hold shares of the Funds, the
redemption of which could have an adverse effect on the Funds and/or Artisan.
From time to time, investors are introduced to a Private Fund by the Private Fund’s prime broker or
another broker. Because an increase in the size of a Private Fund would likely result in additional
compensation to the introducing broker, the broker receives a benefit from such introductions.
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Artisan Partners does not maintain custody of client funds or securities and, except with respect to Private
Funds, will seek to take the actions necessary to avoid being deemed to have inadvertent custody of client
funds and securities. For example, Artisan Partners limits its authority in investment management
agreements to trading activity. In addition, Artisan Partners maintains an authorized signers list granting
limited authority to certain employees to provide trading and settlement-related instructions, which is
provided to custodians. Notwithstanding anything in a client’s agreement with a custodian or other
service provider that purports to give Artisan Partners powers that may be construed as custody over such
client’s assets, Artisan Partners expressly disclaims any such authority.
Artisan Partners generally has no involvement in the process by which a separate account client selects its
custodian and no involvement in a client’s negotiation of its custodial arrangements. Clients are therefore
responsible for independently arranging for all custodial services, including negotiating custody
agreements and fees. See the section of this brochure above entitled “Fees and Compensation” for more
information about the expenses a client may incur in connection with its custodial arrangements.
Although Artisan Partners does not maintain custody of client funds or securities, Artisan Partners and
certain affiliates are deemed to have custody of the Private Funds’ funds and securities pursuant to the
Custody Rule under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Investors in the Private Funds will receive annual
audited financial statements, which should be reviewed carefully. If an investor in the Private Funds does
not receive audited financial statements in a timely manner (generally within 120 days of the Private
Fund’s fiscal year end), then such investor should contact Artisan Partners as soon as possible.
As a provision of the investment management agreements entered into between Artisan Partners and its
clients, Artisan Partners agrees to provide clients with periodic account statements, typically on a monthly
basis, reflecting the activity that has occurred within the account during the period. Artisan Partners
encourages its clients to compare the periodic statements they receive from Artisan Partners to the
applicable statements they receive from their qualified custodians.
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Artisan Partners generally accepts responsibility for management of a client account on a discretionary
basis and each client enters into a written agreement with Artisan Partners granting it discretionary
authority for the provision of advisory services to the client account. Artisan Partners generally does not
tailor its investment management services to the individual needs of clients. Client portfolios in each
strategy generally are managed to a single model; however, a client may, with Artisan Partners’ consent,
impose limited restrictions on investment in certain securities or types of securities in its account. For more
detailed information concerning the limitations clients may place on Artisan Partners’ discretionary
authority, please see the section of this brochure entitled “Advisory Business” above.
Artisan Partners may provide non-discretionary model portfolio recommendations to sponsors of
managed account programs. Please see the sections of this brochure entitled “Advisory Business” and
“Brokerage Practices” for more information.
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Artisan Partners votes proxies solicited by or with respect to the issuers of securities in which assets of a
client account are invested, except as set forth below. When Artisan Partners votes a client’s proxy with
respect to a specific issuer, the client’s economic interest as a shareholder of that issuer is Artisan Partners’
primary consideration in determining how the proxy should be voted. Except as otherwise specifically
instructed by a client, Artisan Partners generally does not take into account interests of other stakeholders
of the issuer or interests the client may have in other capacities.
If a client has directed Artisan Partners to vote proxies solicited by or with respect to the issuers of
securities held in the client’s account, Artisan Partners votes in a manner that, in the judgment of Artisan
Partners, is in the best economic interests of the client as a shareholder of that issuer. A client may direct
Artisan Partners how to vote with respect to securities held by that client for a particular proxy solicitation
by communicating its desire to do so to Artisan Partners, provided that such desire to direct the vote is
communicated sufficiently in advance of any applicable vote submission deadline.
When making proxy voting decisions, Artisan Partners generally adheres to proxy voting guidelines that
set forth Artisan Partners’ proxy voting positions on recurring issues and criteria for addressing non-
recurring issues. Artisan Partners believes the guidelines, if followed, generally will result in the casting of
votes in the economic best interests of clients as shareholders. The guidelines are based on Artisan
Partners’ own research and analyses and the research and analyses provided by the proxy administration
and research services engaged by Artisan Partners. The guidelines are not exhaustive and do not include
all potential voting issues. Because proxy issues and the circumstances of individual companies are so
varied, there may be instances when Artisan Partners votes contrary to its general guidelines. In addition,
due to the varying regulations, customs and practices of non-US countries, Artisan Partners may vote
contrary to its general guidelines in circumstances where it believes its guidelines would result in a vote
inconsistent with local regulations, customs or practices.
In the following circumstances Artisan Partners typically will not vote a client’s proxy:
The client has directed Artisan Partners not to vote on its behalf.
Artisan Partners has concluded that voting would have no identifiable economic benefit to the client as
a shareholder, such as when the security is no longer held in the client’s portfolio or when the value of
the portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant.
Artisan Partners has concluded that the costs of or disadvantages resulting from voting outweigh the
economic benefits of voting. For example, in some non-US jurisdictions, the sale of securities voted may
be legally or practically prohibited or subject to some restrictions for some period of time, usually
between the record and meeting dates (“share blocking”). Artisan Partners believes that the loss of
investment flexibility resulting from share blocking generally outweighs the benefit to be gained by
voting. Information about share blocking is often incomplete or contradictory. For example, client
custodians may effectively restrict transactions even in circumstances in which Artisan Partners believes
that share blocking is not required by law. Artisan Partners relies on custodians and on its proxy service
provider to identify share blocking jurisdictions. To the extent such information is wrong, Artisan
Partners could fail to vote shares that could have been voted without loss of investment flexibility, or
could vote shares and then be prevented from engaging in a potentially beneficial transaction.
Artisan Partners does not have the ability to vote shares held in a client’s account. For example, in some
non-US jurisdictions, a sub-custodian bank (record holder) may not have the power to vote shares, or
may not receive proxy ballots in a timely fashion, unless the client has fulfilled certain administrative
requirements (for example, providing a power of attorney to the local sub-custodian bank), which may
be imposed a single time or may be periodic. Artisan Partners does not have the ability to vote shares
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held in a client’s account unless the client, in conjunction with the client’s custodian, has fulfilled these
requirements.
The client, as of the record date, has loaned the securities to which the proxy relates. For most clients,
Artisan Partners is not aware of when a security may be on loan and, in those circumstances, will not
vote the shares on loan and may not be able to fully reconcile the shares held at record date with the
shares actually voted. Except in those circumstances in which a client may have an obligation to do so
under applicable law, Artisan Partners does not attempt to have securities on loan recalled in order to
vote.
Artisan Partners has engaged a primary proxy service provider to (i) make recommendations to Artisan
Partners of proxy voting policies for adoption by Artisan Partners; (ii) perform research and make
recommendations to Artisan Partners as to particular shareholder votes being solicited; (iii) perform the
administrative tasks of receiving proxies and proxy statements, marking proxies as instructed by Artisan
Partners and delivering those proxies; (iv) retain proxy voting records and information; and (v) report to
Artisan Partners on its activities. The primary proxy service provider does not have the authority to vote
proxies except in accordance with standing or specific instructions given to it by Artisan Partners. Artisan
Partners retains final authority and fiduciary responsibility for the voting of proxies. In addition to the
primary proxy service provider, Artisan Partners has engaged a second proxy service provider to perform
research and make recommendations to Artisan Partners as to particular shareholder votes being solicited,
and may engage one or more additional providers from time to time. In some instances for non-US
companies, there may be little or no information available on matters to be voted on. In those
circumstances, Artisan Partners generally follows the recommendation of its primary proxy service
provider.
Artisan Partners’ proxy voting committee oversees the proxy voting process, reviews the proxy voting
policy at least annually, develops the guidelines and grants authority to proxy administrators to vote
proxies in accordance with the guidelines and otherwise performs administrative services relating to proxy
voting. The proxy voting committee also makes determinations as to certain votes to be cast, including
with respect to each matter where there is an actual or potential conflict of interest. None of the members
of the proxy voting committee is responsible for servicing existing Artisan Partners’ clients or soliciting new
clients for Artisan Partners.
Artisan Partners or its affiliates may have a relationship with an issuer that could pose a conflict of interest
when voting the shares of that issuer on behalf of clients. Artisan Partners will be deemed to have a
potential conflict voting proxies of an issuer if: (i) Artisan Partners or an affiliate manages assets for the
issuer or an affiliate of the issuer and also recommends that its other clients invest in such issuer’s
securities; (ii) a director, trustee or officer of the issuer or an affiliate of the issuer is a director of Artisan
Partners Funds or an employee of Artisan Partners or its affiliates; (iii) Artisan Partners or an affiliate is
actively soliciting that issuer or an affiliate of the issuer as a client and the employees who recommend,
review or authorize a vote have actual knowledge of such active solicitation; (iv) a director or an executive
officer of the issuer has a personal relationship with an employee who recommends, reviews or authorizes
the vote; or (v) another relationship or interest of Artisan Partners or an affiliate, or of an employee of either
of them, exists that may be affected by the outcome of the proxy vote and that is deemed to represent an
actual or potential conflict for the purposes of the proxy voting policy.
Artisan Partners maintains a list of issuers with which it believes it has a potential conflict in voting proxies
(the “identified issuers”). Artisan Partners’ proxy voting guidelines should, in most cases, adequately
address possible conflicts of interest since those guidelines are pre-determined. However, in the event an
actual or potential conflict of interest has been identified, Artisan Partners will vote in accordance with
Artisan Partners proxy voting guidelines on routine or corporate administrative matters, and with respect
to non-routine matters, Artisan Partners will generally vote in accordance with the determination made by
the proxy voting committee, which will consider the investment team’s recommended vote, any analysis
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available from the proxy service provider(s) and whether the proxy service provider(s) has a relationship
with the issuer that could present a conflict of interest, the consistency of those recommendations with
the proxy voting guidelines and any identified conflict of interest. Artisan Partners may vote in accordance
with the recommendations of a proxy service provider, provided that such service provider provides
research and analysis with respect to the issuer in question and the proxy voting committee has reason to
believe the service provider is independent of the issuer. If the service provider does not meet those
requirements, the proxy voting committee shall consider what course of action will serve the interests of
Artisan Partners’ clients consistent with Artisan Partners’ obligations under applicable proxy voting rules.
Artisan Partners has a process in place to review that proxy ballots were voted in accordance with its
voting instructions and the proxy voting policy.
Artisan Partners will provide a copy of its entire proxy voting policy and Artisan Partners’ proxy voting
record with respect to a client’s account to that client or its representatives upon the client’s request or as
may be required by applicable law. Artisan Partners generally will not disclose publicly its past votes, share
amounts voted or held or how it intends to vote on behalf of a client account except as may be required
by applicable law or in connection with meetings with issuers’ management teams, but may disclose such
information to a client which itself may decide or may be required to make public such information.
Clients that have not granted Artisan Partners voting authority over securities held in their accounts will
receive their proxies in accordance with the arrangements they have made with their other service
providers. Artisan Partners generally does not provide proxy voting recommendations to those clients.
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Artisan Partners does not require or solicit prepayment of investment advisory fees from its clients. Artisan
Partners is not aware of any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet its
contractual commitments to clients, nor has Artisan Partners been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at
any time during the past ten years.
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