Crawford Investment Counsel (Crawford) is an independently owned and operated investment management firm located in Atlanta, GA. The firm was founded in 1980 with a philosophy solely focused on high-quality investments. Crawford seeks to provide institutional and individual investors with both equity and fixed income solutions to meet long-term goals. As long-term investors, the firm’s objective is to provide attractive total returns over a full market cycle. Crawford’s investment approach consistently focuses on narrowing the range of potential investment outcomes while seeking outperformance through identifying and investing in what the firm believes to be high-quality companies. The firm expects that high-quality companies with improving fundamentals can lead to attractive returns with below market risk over full market cycles.

Crawford looks to a company’s dividend history as an initial indicator of quality. The firm adds value through its fundamental, bottom-up investment process, enabling long-term investors the opportunity to capitalize on pricing inefficiencies associated with high-quality, dividend-paying stocks.