Founded in 1970, Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc. serves clients in over 45 states and manages over $7.5 billion in client assets. It remains an employee-owned firm, with 100% of the firm owned by full-time employees. Manning & Napier quickly established the strategies and disciplines to survive the tough investment environment of the 1970s. In that decade, the stock market failed to beat either inflation or T-Bills. For a newly-formed investment firm to not only survive but grow in that environment, it had to add value rather than just ride a wave of market performance. Manning & Napier’s ability to find opportunity in this kind of challenging environment has proven to be just as valuable in the 21st Century as it did in the 1970s.