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Get to know our equity investment teams.

Our distinct and highly experienced equity investment teams are committed to delivering consistent investment results.
  • Diversified equity solutions that span the full range of market caps and geographies.

  • Differentiated investment processes—including fundamental, bottom-up research, top-down analysis, and data driven insights.

  • Access to direct regional insights as well as global views.

  • Customized strategies to meet your specific needs.

Principal Aligned

Long-term, bottom-up fundamental investors managing U.S. large-cap and mid-cap equity portfolios with a specific preference for high-quality businesses run by owner-operators.

Principal Dynamic Growth

Specializes in the management of small-, SMID-, and mid-cap U.S. growth equities using a bottom-up, growth-oriented approach to find good companies that are getting stronger and exceeding investor expectations.

Principal Edge

Committed to fundamental analysis and the belief that quality companies make good stocks, we have the patience and confidence to invest in SMID-, mid-, and large-cap U.S. equities over the long term.

Principal Equities

With experienced resources around the world, we combine global insights with local knowledge to deliver a wide range of fundamental and systematic specialized equity investment solutions spanning all regions and market caps.

Principal Listed Infrastructure

Offering exposure to the global infrastructure market, emphasizing research-driven stock selection as the primary driver of excess returns, our dedicated team of listed infrastructure specialists have complementary experiences investing in infrastructure and broader public equity markets around the world. Our investment process fully integrates sustainability considerations and leverages time-tested investment philosophies.

Principal Real Estate Securities

Our globally based real estate securities team is one of the largest active managers of real estate securities. For more than 25 years, we have leveraged our deep expertise across global commercial real estate sectors and regions to identify market inefficiencies, capitalize on mispriced opportunities, and generate alpha for our clients.

Explore our featured equity strategies.

To help you effectively balance risk and return, we make available a broad range of equity strategies that have historically delivered attractive returns.
Blue Chip Equity
Investing in high-quality large-cap companies with owner-operator management teams and sustainable competitive advantages.
Managed by  Principal Aligned
Diversified International Equity
Investing primarily in the shares of businesses domiciled in developed (ex-U.S.) and emerging market countries that we believe are becoming better as a result of positive change.
Managed by  Principal Equities
Equity Income
Focused on selecting high-quality, large-cap dividend growing companies.
Managed by  Principal Edge
European Equity
Investing primarily in the shares of European-domiciled businesses that we believe are becoming better as a result of positive change.
Managed by  Principal Equities
Global Smaller Companies
Targeting profitable and fast-growing small-cap companies at reasonable prices.
Managed by  Principal Origin
International Equity ADR
Investing primarily in the shares of non-U.S. companies primarily through American Depository Receipts, this strategy is research-driven and focused on bottom-up stock selection, not bold calls on macro or geopolitical conditions.
Managed by  Principal Equities
MidCap Equity
Investing in high-quality mid-cap companies with owner-operator management teams and sustainable competitive advantages.
Managed by  Principal Aligned
SMID Equity Income
Focused on selecting high-quality, SMID dividend growing companies.
Managed by  Principal Edge
U.S. Small Cap Equity
Investing in small-cap businesses domiciled in the United States that we believe are becoming better as a result of positive change.
Managed by  Principal Equities
U.S. Real Estate Securities
Applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.
Global Real Estate Securities
Offers exposure to the global real estate market, applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.
Global Listed Infrastructure
Offers exposure to the global infrastructure market, emphasizing research-driven stock selection as the primary driver of excess returns.

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Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Equity markets are subject to many factors, including economic conditions, government regulations, market sentiment, local and international political events, and environmental and technological issues that may impact return and volatility.

Principal Aligned, Principal Dynamic Growth, Principal Edge, and Principal Equities are investment teams within Principal Global Investors.

Principal Origin is a trade name of Origin Asset Management LLP, an affiliate of Principal Global Investors.