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 broad sector opportunity set.
- Apply negative screening for macroeconomic and political factors to temper bottom-up enthusiasm for specific securities.
Portfolio Construction
- Typically 80-100 stocks
- Active positions typically range from 0.4%-4.0%
- Country ranges +/- 10% absolute deviation from the benchmark
- Sector ranges +/- 15% absolute deviation from the benchmark
- Reserves are typically less than 5%
- Expected Turnover range: 20-40%
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- Country risk (China)
- Country risk (Saudi Arabia)
- Currency risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Small and mid-cap risk
- Stock Connect risk
- Style risk
- Capital risk
- Equity risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk