Martin Brown

Provides brokerage services

GIM is a long-term, specialist, active manager which aims to add value through a 'different' approach. The firm constructs concentrated UK equity portfolios, taking active positions relative to the benchmark while providing adequate diversification. GIM offers Balanced and UK equity products on both a pooled and segregated basis.^The firm's core expertise is UK equity stock selection and they have experience in such other areas as asset allocation, fixed-income securities and selection of unit trusts and investment trusts for exposure to overseas equities.

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.

RAM is an active, team-based manager which believes that their fund managers should manage with conviction and focus on outperformance. The firm's teams are organized as a series of boutiques, both in their core business and their joint ventures. There are separate teams for each of their core business areas, each led by a Chief Investment Officer. Teams devise the strategy and process which best suits their particular asset class at any given time. The firm's team members cover different sectors within each asset class, allowing individuals to become specialists. The roles of investment manager and analyst are combined, allowing them to fully understand the stocks in which they invest. Information is shared among teams, through RAM's mentoring system, regular meetings and global sector analysis. Each asset class has its own distinct investment approach. Risk controls are integral to the firm's investment process. Their Risk Management team works closely with the investment team to ensure that managers are aware of the risk they are taking when they move overweight or underweight in any particular stock, sector or country. In addition, the executive board meets heads of desks each month to review fund performance. The firm's buddy investment manager provides additional risk control by questioning existing views and their compliance team also monitors and supervises the investment team.

IIS is an active, research and conviction-based manager that employs an investment philosophy called Focus on Change, which aims to capture anomalies and inefficiencies between consensus and non-consensus analysis of companies. The firm seeks to consistently add value through their equity portfolios, following a bottom-up approach to construct portfolios comprised of opportunities with real potential. For fixed-income, IIS offers segregated and pooled vehicles across a range of fixed-income sub-sectors and geographies through investment grade corporate bonds, high yield corporate bonds, government bonds, emerging market debt, inflation-linked bonds and absolute return bond strategies.

Owns and operates commercial ports