Investment Philosophy
Our research is guided by our conceptual understanding of how capital markets behave both in the short and long-term
- Fundamentals (income, growth and valuation) determine asset performance over the long-term
- In the short-term asset prices tend to overshoot on both the upside and the downside reflecting changing investor sentiment and thus creating value enhancing opportunities
- The capital markets are constantly evolving and, therefore, having methodologies to distinguish the signal from the noise is critical to achieving attractive risk-adjusted performance
- All assets whether at the asset class or at the security level posses a multidimensional profile reflecting their expected return, associated risks and relationship with other assets
Process
We manage all of our activities to achieve risk-controlled long-term wealth accumulation in the context of the clients’ objectives and risk tolerance
The Global Focus Capital research approach is designed to dynamically distill a small number of robust insights or themes and ignore the often high level of day-to-day noise in the capital markets
Our starting point for researching and ultimately building portfolios are broad universes of global securities across a wide spectrum of style, market capitalization and risk dimensions
Our methodologies combine top-down capital market, region and economic sector views with bottom-up security selection perspectives
We strive to maintain flexibility in our target portfolios and during periods of extreme investor stress or euphoria we evaluate the contextual setting of the capital markets and tactically adjust portfolio risk profiles