Long/Short Equities
Highland offers multiple long/short equity strategies to fit the goals and risk tolerance of different investors. Our equities team seeks consistent, above‐average total returns primarily through capital appreciation, while also attempting to preserve capital and mitigate risk through hedging activities. Our long/short strategies aim to generate above market with less volatility, lower drawdowns, and low correlation relative to their benchmark indices.
Strategy Types
Long/Short Healthcare Equity
- Seeks consistent risk-adjusted returns on capital primarily through buying long and selling short public equity securities in the Healthcare sector
- Aims to generate strong absolute and risk-adjusted returns over an equity market cycle by managing a high alpha, low beta portfolio, while minimizing volatility and drawdowns compared to traditional equity markets
- Invests across five subsectors within the healthcare space (pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, life sciences & tools, and healthcare services)
- Uses top down, macro view with a bottom up research process, with a combination of value, growth and event driven investments, with a primary focus on capital preservation, risk management and diversification across market capitalization and Healthcare subsectors
Long/Short Equity
- Seeks consistent, above-average, equity-like total returns with less volatility, lower drawdowns, and lower correlation compared to the equity markets
- Follows fundamental, bottom-up stock picking style with value and growth stocks, with a domestic focus
- Performs hedging activities to attempt to preserve capital and mitigate risk
- Uses long/short directional strategic approach