David Hogarty

KBI focuses on their core areas of expertise: environmental equity strategies, dividend-oriented strategies and multi-asset strategies. The firm follows a diversified, total return approach emphasizing the importance of dividend yield, dividend growth and price increases. They invest across industries, regions and market-caps. KBI offers differentiated and innovative investment strategies which enable investors to generate consistent alpha with less risk. Each strategy is managed by specialist teams with investment autonomy and operational independence.

KBCAM-Ireland is a value-oriented manager which employs a core style with a growth tilt. The firm invests globally in equities with the majority of their assets allocated to large- and giant-cap Continental European securities. KBCAM-Ireland's investment team combines a macro/thematic overlay with strong bottom-up stock selection. The firm seeks attractively priced stocks by applying macro-oriented analysis to identify trends and themes in world markets, regions and sectors. They find potential sources of differentiation by isolating where their economic, valuation, and earnings forecasts vary from the general consensus. The firm's in-house fundamental research is complemented by a comprehensive company visit program which aims to identify quality stocks that reflect their preferred regional and sector themes.