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Your equity investment objectives and risk tolerance are unique. We can help you take advantage of the widespread opportunities within the equities market, including—U.S. equities, international equities, global equities, emerging markets, Asia equities, factor investing, and various thematics.

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.

Access to direct regional insights as well as global views.

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

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 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 a leading active manager 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 seek to 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

Capital appreciation

Focused on selecting high-quality, large-cap core companies.

Managed by Principal Equities

Capital appreciation select

Focused on selecting high-quality, large-cap core companies.

Managed by Principal Equities

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 Equities

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

International equity

Investing primarily in the shares of companies domiciled in developed (ex-U.S.) and emerging markets, this strategy is research-driven and focused on bottom-up stock selection, not bold calls on macro or geopolitical conditions.

Managed by Principal Equities

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 Equities

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

Global listed infrastructure

Offers exposure to the global infrastructure market, emphasizing research-driven stock selection as the primary driver of excess returns.

Managed by Principal Real Estate

Global real estate securities (REITs)

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.

Managed by Principal Real Estate

U.S. real estate securities (REITs)

Applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.

Managed by Principal Real Estate

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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 and Principal Equities are investment teams within Principal Global Investors.