June Jessop

NIM is a thematic, team-oriented manager which conducts in-house research to identify themes and trends that influence, or are likely to influence, economies or stock markets globally. The firm focuses their research on the areas they believe are most likely to yield the best performing securities. Portfolio managers construct equity and fixed-income model portfolios in teams. For equity portfolios, the most important aspect of portfolio construction is stock selection as bottom-up decisions drive, to a large extent, a portfolio’s allocation to countries, sectors, and currencies. Their fixed income portfolios utilize both their top-down view of the world’s bond and currency markets and bottom-up investment selection process.

Stewart Investors is an active, growth-oriented manager which seeks to preserve capital by concentrating on niche and specialist areas of the market such as real estate, infrastructure and emerging markets. They manage investments across a range of long-only equity and alternative asset classes, including Asia Pacific and Global Emerging market equities, real estate securities, infrastructure and global natural resources. The firm utilizes an investment process concentrating on absolute return and relative return. They favor a bottom-up stock selection process and focus on long-term performance.

Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

Cornelian aims to protect and enhance its clients’ real wealth over time, whilst ensuring the level of investment risk taken is appropriate and agreed. The firm believes that global, unconstrained, multi-asset investing achieves superior risk adjusted returns. They use active management at all levels of the investment process from asset allocation through to the selection of individual investments.

LGT Wealth Management takes an active and research-intensive approach to deliver next-generation investment solutions to clients over the long term. Their conventional approach invests in conventional asset classes like equities, bonds and real estate and aims to outperform the market or an agreed benchmark, while their target return approach is broadly diversified, aiming to deliver specific target returns. The firm diversifies risk by investing across asset classes, regions and strategies and utilizes sophisticated risk analysis systems to monitor every portfolio’s exposure to different risk factors and levels of risk. Their Investment Committee carries out the research and risk management processes.