Summit Financial, LLC ("SF") an independent investment advisory firm is proud to continue a 4-decade legacy helping advisors elevate their businesses and deliver robust client experiences. We empower advisors and clients with first-class resources, including our fully integrated platform of top-tier services, thought leaders & innovative technology. Our advisors provide objective advice, financial planning, and investment solutions to families & individuals, family offices and select institutions. Our Professional Strategy Team of planning, insurance, and investment experts are committed to helping advisors and clients optimize results together.
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ClearBridge Investments is an active equity manager offering a broad range of strategies across global developed and emerging markets, local markets, and real assets. Our local market capabilities serve clients in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. The firm manages more than $200 billion (as of September 30, 2025).
ClearBridge manages diversified, high-conviction portfolios through collaborative fundamental research to meet the needs of some of the world’s largest asset owners and financial intermediary platforms. We invest as long-term, risk-aware business owners and seek to deliver consistency of process and performance for our clients through market cycles. A focus on durability drives everything we do; from the business models of the companies we own, to the holding periods of our portfolios, to the stability and longevity of our investment professionals.
As Franklin Templeton’s largest equity specialist, ClearBridge operates with investment autonomy from headquarters in New York and offices in Baltimore, Calgary, Edinburgh, Fort Lauderdale, Leeds, London, Melbourne, and Sydney.
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