Global Equity Fund

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Overview

Manager's Outlook

The investment landscape?marked by extreme inflation, tightening financial conditions, slowing growth, decelerating corporate earnings, and continued geopolitical risks?remains challenging. We are operating in an environment of rapidly changing and powerful economic factors by focusing on our "core basics" of following a truly idiosyncratic, sector-balanced approach that leverages our extensive research platform to invest in what we believe are well-run, durable growth compounders?stocks that should provide a solid return outcome in a lower-growth environment with meaningfully reset valuations.

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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has led to extreme commodity price inflation that has rippled through the global economy, and COVID-related headwinds have continued to disrupt supply chains. Outside of China, the rest of the world has reopened, and the higher inflation that was once thought to be transitory is likely to remain higher for longer than we had thought. With central banks now laser focused on reigning in inflation, we are operating in a higher interest rate world with rising risks of a recession.

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Despite near-term uncertainty, we believe the market environment is still positive for equities and growth in the medium and longer term. While recession has become a broadly consensus view, it would likely be one of the most telegraphed recessions in history, and we would expect it to be short lived. Even though we are clearly in a new rate environment with the Federal Reserve going at a steeper and quicker pace than we anticipated, real rates remain negative and should remain very low for the medium term, which would be supportive for global growth equities. We believe the sharp downturn in equities has also removed much of the fundamental excess valuation in many stocks, which should provide for more compelling opportunities.

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We are cognizant of building the portfolio for tomorrow, rather than owning what has worked in the recent past. Despite the challenges of 2022, we have high conviction in our current positions with a strong enduring bias toward companies in highly attractive industries where dynamics such as low penetration and long runways will lead to high and sustained levels of growth. Extending our return horizon and thinking beyond the short-term market narrative have allowed us to be contrarian in the past and have contributed to our longer-term outperformance.

Strategy

Fund Summary

High conviction, truly global equity portfolio seeking to invest in companies with above-average and sustainable growth characteristics.

OUR VIEWS ON GLOBAL EQUITIES

Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

31-Oct-2024 - Scott Berg, Portfolio Manager,

In Australian dollar terms, global equities generated solid gains in October as a weakening Australian dollar versus other major currencies helped boost results for Australian investors. Overall, markets wrestled with strong economic data in the U.S. diminishing expectations for more interest rate cuts, signs of deceleration in artificial intelligence demand, China stimulus scepticism, and geopolitical uncertainty. Within the portfolio, our holdings in consumer staples contributed the most to relative returns. Shares of a small format convenience store operator rose over the period, bucking broader weakness in the Indonesian market. We continue to have high conviction in the company and believe the firm has the potential to deliver strong earnings growth, driven by expansion of both margins and stores. Conversely, stock selection in health care hurt relative results. Shares of a leading global bio-analysis company specialising in food, environmental, pharmaceutical products, and clinical diagnostics testing sold off after it reported mixed earnings results, with worse-than-expected core organic growth. However, management raised margin guidance while earnings and free cash flow guidance remained unchanged. We continue to think the company has a one-of-a-kind platform and should deliver strong, durable growth over the long term.

31-Jan-2024 - Scott Berg, Portfolio Manager,

We have an overweight position in financials. We currently have exposure to what we believe are high-quality U.S. banks but are meaningfully underweight European and Japanese peers that broadly have more negative credit exposure. We have a greater allocation to insurance companies than we have typically had in the past, as an improving pricing environment and better yields on portfolio investments have created a positive near- and medium-term setup. We continue to own several emerging market financials that we believe are undervalued and underappreciated and have exposure to high-quality alternative asset managers and leading capital markets companies.

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