Global Investment Strategy

The Global Investment Strategy team offers investors guidance on economic trends and market and sector preferences around the world. This team is dedicated to helping investors achieve financial success by identifying potential opportunities in financial, real estate, and commodity markets, and in hedge fund and private capital strategies.

Focus Areas:
  • Fixed income
  • Real assets
  • Alternative investments
  • Equities

Global Investment Strategy is a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. (WFII). WFII is a registered investment advisor and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N. A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company

Global Manager Research

The Global Manager Research team provides in-depth research on investment products that can help financial professionals build investment strategies designed to help pursue clients’ financial goals. 

Focus Areas:
  • Mutual funds
  • Exchange-traded products (ETPs)
  • Separately managed accounts
  • Private placements
  • Closed-end funds (CEFs)
  • Collective investment
    trusts (CITs)
  • Money market funds

Global Manager Research is a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. (WFII). WFII is a registered investment adviser and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. GMR may provide research analysis for mutual funds, private funds and other products where Wells Fargo has a non-controlling ownership interest ("associated products"). GMR may be consulted by product managers in order to provide insight and guidance into product creation and management. The analysis utilizes the same processes and scrutiny as for non-associated products and WFII is committed to providing research that is fair an unbiased, but a conflict may arise as Wells Fargo may benefit from a favorable recommendation for an associated product.

Global Alternative Investments

Global Alternative Investments offers access to investment strategies in the alternative investments space in an effort to improve a portfolio’s risk and return characteristics

Focus Areas:
  • Private equity
  • Private debt
  • Hedge fund strategies
  • Private real estate
  • Market Linked Investments
Global Alternative Investments (GAI) is a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. (WFII). WFII is a registered investment advisor and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Global Portfolio Management

The Global Portfolio Management team combines WFII’s asset allocation guidance and investment product research to provide investment professionals with globally diversified discretionary portfolios to help manage their clients’ financial success.
Global Portfolio Management (GPM) is a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. (WFII). WFII is a registered investment adviser and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company