Equity

Conviction Equity

As investors, we are looking to capitalise on mispriced opportunities based on the strength and timing of future cash flows.

Our investment philosophy is to target companies that can sustainably grow their cash flows over time and know what to do with the profits. Our experience has shown that a concentrated portfolio of stocks with these attributes can provide an attractive return when held over the long-term.

We look at the equity markets through the lenses of fundamental investors, notwithstanding portfolio construction. We don’t look only at valuations but pay a lot of attention to the quality of the businesses we invest in, meaning we are as much business analysts as equity analysts.

We use a proprietary scoring system called the Conviction Score that allows us to compare companies across all sectors, geographies and business models. Over time this proprietary scoring creates substantial intellectual property which guides us towards superior businesses, industry structures and trends.

Strategy facts

Global Equity European Equity UK Equity China Equity

A high conviction global fund focusing on long term capital appreciation

Buy European companies that can grow cash flow and know how to allocate capital

Buy UK companies that can grow cash flow and know how to allocate capital

Finding the best businesses in China, buying companies when they are attractively valued and holding for the long-term

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI AC World Net USD

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI Europe Net Return EUR Index

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI United Kingdom All Cap Index

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI China 10/40 Net Total Return USD Index

Inception: 

May 2015

Inception: 

November 2011

Inception: 

November 2016

Inception: 

August 2012

Growth Equity

The US Growth team employs a methodical, fundamental approach to stock selection. This framework allows the team to invest in a disciplined, repeatable manner to help ensure it is consistently investing in the most attractive relative opportunities.

The process can be applied across all sectors to facilitate stock selection. The four key inputs are Quality Assesment, Timing Assesment, Short-Term Growth Potential and Long-Term Growth Potential. Each stock receives a score for each of these four inputs, which are then added together to yield an overall QUoTA ranking.

Our investment philosophy is to identify the highest-quality, fastest-growing companies in the appropriate universe. We use a proprietary forecast system that allows us increase our understanding of the company and decrease reliance on third parties for financial research.

Strategy facts

US Growth US Small Cap Growth US Future Leaders Europe Future Leaders Asia Future Leaders

Investing in high growth companies in the US using a fundamentally driven qualitative stock-picking approach

Investing in high growth companies in the US small cap space using a fundamentally driven qualitative stock-picking approach

A concentrated, stock picking strategy that seeks out future leading companies in the US with a focus on high quality growth companies which have exemplary management teams

A concentrated, stock picking strategy that seeks out future leading companies in Europe with a focus on high quality growth companies with exemplary management teams

A concentrated, stock picking strategy that seeks out future leading companies in Asia with a focus on high quality growth companies with exemplary management teams

Reference benchmark: 

Russell 1000 Growth Index

Reference benchmark: 

Russell 2000 Growth Index

Reference benchmark: 

Russell Mid-Cap Growth Index

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI Europe ex UK Net Return EUR Index

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Net Total Return USD Index

Inception: 

July 2010

Inception: 

December 2016

Inception: 

April 2016

Inception: 

September 2019

Inception: 

December 2018

Strategy facts (continued)

Japan Equity Swiss Select Equity Emerging Markets Future Leaders

A high conviction, concentrated, stock picking strategy investing in a qualitative strong Japanese multi-cap universe.

A high conviction, stock picking strategy investing in a strong Swiss multi-cap universe.

The investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation through high conviction fundamental research driven Emerging Markets equity portfolio.

Reference benchmark: 

MSCI Japan Net Total Return Local Index

Reference benchmark: 

Swiss Performance Index

Reference benchmark: 

Solactive Emerging Markets ex China Custom Net Return USD Index

Inception: 

January 1998

Inception: 

March 2014

Inception: 

March 2022