Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. is an investment management firm focused on providing high-value added, active investment strategies to clients globally. Its investment teams manage a broad range of investment strategies that are diversified by asset class, market cap and investment style. The company offers its services to institutions and through intermediaries by means of separate accounts and pooled vehicles. Institutional Channel services institutional clients, such as U.S.-registered mutual funds, non-U.S. funds and collective investment trusts, state and local governments, employee benefit plans including Taft-Hartley plans, foundations, and endowments. Intermediary Channel includes brokerage firms & private banks and trust companies wherein the process for identifying which funds to offer. Retail Channel caters to retail investors indirectly through mutual fund supermarkets, which allows investors to purchase and redeem fund shares.