Humanizing Investments

Client

Hartford Funds

Date

2021

Project

Brand Advertising

Hartford Funds – one of the country’s largest asset managers – has been positioned for years as the firm that helps financial advisors understand their clients on a human level. The challenge? Mission-critical messages around the firm’s investment products and performance never quite jived with the brand as a whole.

Challenge

Bridge the divide between investment messaging and investor messaging.

Insight

Investment performance is more than just numerical returns – it’s about what those returns mean to people.

Substance

Make performance meaningful by communicating it in human terms.

Four tablet screens displaying web page layouts for Hartford Funds.
Four colored circles (blue, teal, orange, purple) with business labels.
Collection of Hartford Funds digital banner ads with photos and copy.
Smartphone displaying a Hartford Funds ad featuring a suspension bridge.
Hartford Funds ad featuring a person walking across a suspension bridge over a forest.
Hartford Funds ad showing an older man with an orange surfboard at the beach.
Smartphone ad for Hartford Funds featuring an older man with a surfboard.
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