Strategy
Investment Approach
- Employ fundamental analysis to identify companies with sustainable above-market earnings growth rates.
- Focus on franchise strength, management team quality, free cash flow, and financing/balance sheet structure.
- Verify relative valuation appeal versus both local market and region.
- Apply negative screening for macroeconomic and political factors to temper bottom-up enthusiasm for specific securities.
Portfolio Construction
- Typically 30-60 stock portfolio.
- Individual positions typically range from 0.50% to 10.00% — average position size of 2.00% to 3.00%.
- Country and sector weights unconstrained.
- Reserves typically range from 0% to 5%.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- Country risk (Russia and Ukraine)
- Currency risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Issuer concentration risk
- Small and mid-cap risk
- Style risk
- Capital risk
- Equity risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk