How We Invest

Our Process

Our investment process runs to a monthly cycle in three stages. First, a systematic scoring and ranking of our entire 4,500 stock investment universe relying on proprietary algorithms and much data. Second, a qualitative due diligence stage carried out by our experienced investment team on a subset of high scoring names. Third, a portfolio construction stage bringing to bear the judgement of our experienced team aided by best in class risk analysis tools.

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Starting Point

Investment Universe

In order to gain inclusion in our investable universe of approximately 4,500 stocks globally, 3,000 international and 1,500 emerging markets, stocks must meet minimum market capitalization and liquidity criteria.

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Step 1

Automated Screening

We then mechanically screen and rank each company in our investable universe on the basis of each of our four target criteria. We are interested in the central core of names which most closely resemble our ideal company.

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Step 2

Team Due Diligence

At this stage we consider stocks not currently owned that are scoring highly and/or are felt to be good diversifiers for our current portfolio as well as those current holdings where the scoring evidence has deteriorated. Each member of the team independently reviews the whole due diligence list, focusing only on the four relevant characteristics and reorders the list in his/her own order of preference. Combining the individual rankings creates the combined team list which forms the basis of that month’s trading decisions.