About Us

At Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington), we are a focused investment management firm with dedicated business units that work with institutional clients and their consultants, private equity investors, and individuals and their families. With the strong support of our parent company, Western & Southern Financial Group, we have a stable base of capital that fosters our investment-centered culture, alignment with clients' interests and long-term perspective. We believe our advantage is the ability to focus on investing without distractions from other business activities or short-term objectives. We serve some of the country's largest institutional investors, yet are as approachable and personable as any local firm. Fort Washington is a registered investment advisor. We were founded in 1990 and are the primary investment arm of Western & Southern Financial Group. As of 12/31/11, we managed $39.9 billion in assets1.

To learn more about the types of institutional clients we work with, please visit our Institutional Client Types Served page. You may learn more about our private equity division by visiting our Fort Washington Capital Partners Group site. Our Private Client Group works with individual investors and their families.

Beyond the expertise of our investment teams, we benefit from the strength of our business and management resources. Led by Maribeth Rahe, President and CEO, and Nick Sargen, Chief Investment Officer, our leadership team creates purpose and strategic direction in our daily service to clients. From an operational standpoint, we believe we also have an advantage over many firms our size by leveraging the significant technical resources of Western & Southern which routinely ranks as one of the strongest life insurance-based financial services companies in the world. Our well defined corporate governance and strong culture of compliance also result from our leadership team.

Detailed backgrounds on our business and investment leaders may be found on the Our Professionals page.

1 As of 12/31/11, includes Fort Washington Capital Partners Group, the private equity division of Fort Washington, with approximately $1.9 billion in commitments under management and Peppertree Partners, LLC, a subsidiary, with approximately $134 million in commitments.

About Western & Southern Financial Group

Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned and managed in excess of $50 billion as of Dec. 31, 2011. Western & Southern’s six life insurance companies (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Columbus Life Insurance Company; Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain the following ratings for financial strength: Standard & Poor’s AA+ Very Strong (currently the highest rating held by any life insurance company and making Western & Southern one of the eight highest-rated life insurance groups in the world), A.M. Best A+ Superior, Fitch AA Very Strong and Moody’s1 Aa3 Excellent. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group’s affiliates also include Capital Analysts Incorporated;2, 3 Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;2 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;2 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;3 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. For more information, visit www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of the Western & Southern Open (www.wsopen.com) tennis tournament, a premier event in the U.S. Open Series featuring the world’s top-ranked professional male and female players.

1 Lafayette Life is not rated by Moody’s.
2 A registered investment advisor.
3 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.

Ratings are current as of 12/31/11 and refer to the claims-paying ability of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.

 

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