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.
- Assess macroeconomic and political factors to temper bottom-up enthusiasm for specific securities.
Portfolio Construction
- Typically 30-60 stock portfolio.
- Individual positions sizes typically range from 0.5% to 10.0%
- Sector ranges typically +/- 10.0% absolute deviation to the benchmark.
- Country ranges typically +/- 10.0% absolute deviation to the benchmark.
- Reserves typically range from 0.0% to 5.0%.
- Expected Turnover 20.0% to 50.0%.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- Currency risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Issuer concentration risk
- Small and mid-cap risk
- Capital risk
- Equity risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk