Hanseatic's highest priority has been to develop, maintain and enhance a high quality and clearly structured investment process. This process establishes a consistent empirical framework for optimal decisions about stock selection, risk management and portfolio structure.

Cognitive errors permeate financial decision-making and penalize investment performance. An investment process that is objective, disciplined and cognizant of probabilities and returns can minimize the adverse impact of these biases.

Stock market returns are not normally distributed, but rather exhibit fat tails and other characteristics that are more consistent with complex adaptive systems. The practical consequence of this reality is that portfolios should be more diversified than conventional finance wisdom holds.