Our approach
We look to gain an investment edge that is analytical and behavioural in nature. Being long term in outlook, concentrated and fundamentally driven allows us to ask the right questions.
We invest in what we consider to be the best businesses regardless of sector or geography, with high-conviction ideas driven by bottom-up stock selection and fundamental analysis. As a result of allocating risk budget to our highest-conviction ideas, we tend to exhibit low correlations with other global equity strategies.
We actively seek to minimise downside risk through our cashflow focus, deep understanding of ESG factors and active engagement with companies to promote higher and consistent long-term returns. This is typically reflected in an attractive capture ratio – aiming to match the market on the way up, but significantly outperform it on the way down.
Potential benefits
Our approach focuses on the following distinctive characteristics that can generate attractive, resilient total returns over the long term:
Key risks of global endurance funds
For further information on the risks and risk profiles of our funds, please refer to the relevant KIID and Prospectus.
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.
Global equities in focus
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We need to talk about capture ratios
Giles Parkinson explains why a simple, but underused, metric can help investors judge portfolio manager skill.
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Out of style: Don’t restrict your investment universe
It is important to source ideas from the broadest possible opportunity set without style factors or other constraints.
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Risk: Adjusting returns
Thinking about risk as losing money and the trade-offs involved in assessing risk and return.
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Discounted cash flow: Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
The importance and greater relevance of looking at cash flows rather than earnings.
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Growth, returns and cash: Are management incentives aligned?
What exactly does capital allocation mean, why is it so important, and how do we analyse it?
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Psychological safety: Culture as a competitive advantage
Being safely wrong early and bravely right in the long term.
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Conscious consciences: Active managers as the new activists
Is passive investment responsible? Put another way, are long-term institutional investors the new activists?
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Diversity of thought and the collective intelligence challenge
Exploring neurodiversity, and why it matters when investing.
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Patient conviction: Beyond ‘active share’
Managing high active share portfolios with low turnover fosters an analytical edge.
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The behavioural investment edge
Exploring the durability and replicability of investing edges.
Global equity endurance fund team

Francois de Bruin
Global Equity Fund Manager

Richard Saldanha
Portfolio Manager
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Equities views
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Five principles for performance persistence
15 Mar 2023
Barney Goodchild, Francois De Bruin and Richard Saldanha set out the thought process behind our Global Equity Endurance strategy.
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Global equity income: Swimming against the tide
14 Mar 2023
Despite the recent upturn in global equities, Richard Saldanha explains why investors should be cautious in chasing a cyclical rally.
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Gas versus renewables: Does natural gas have a future?
8 Mar 2023
The war in Ukraine has thrown up huge uncertainties around the role of gas in the energy system. Experts from our credit, ESG and real assets teams discuss the implications for traditional energy and renewables companies.
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What does the data say? Three charts multi-asset investors should know about
6 Mar 2023
We take a visual approach to explain what’s happening with bonds, equities and oil.
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Bank securities: Unloved, but why?
16 Feb 2023
Oliver Judd and Betty Sanchez Torres argue that despite a recovery in prices, banking sector securities continue to offer value so long as a deeper recession is avoided.
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Bear rallies and bucket lists: Navigating UK equities in 2023
14 Feb 2023
Despite hopes inflation will be brought back under control and that the prospects for the UK economy might not be as gloomy as feared, Charlotte Meyrick and Trevor Green explain why equity investors must remain disciplined in 2023.
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Follow the leader: Why companies should take the drama out of CEO succession planning
19 Jan 2023
Botched leadership handovers can severely impair company performance. To satisfy investors, boards need to take succession planning more seriously, argue Trevor Green and Louise Piffaut.
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Charging up: Batteries and the fight against climate change
5 Jan 2023
Batteries are set to play a crucial role in helping to decarbonise the global transport and energy sectors. As capital floods into an industry experiencing exponential growth, we look at the key considerations for investors.
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Avoiding tunnel vision: UK equity income 2023 outlook
20 Dec 2022
Chris Murphy and James Balfour, co-fund managers of our UK equity income strategy, reflect on the big shifts in 2022 and what they could mean for the asset class in 2023.
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Global equity income Q&A: Richard Saldanha on dividends and downturns
28 Oct 2022
In a challenging economic environment, where can income investors find companies that can grow and sustain dividends? Richard Saldanha answers the big questions.
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The ‘Hotel California’ effect: Why equity investors should keep an eye on switching costs
13 Oct 2022
Companies whose customers face barriers to exit often deliver more resilient performance over the long term, says Francois de Bruin.
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UK equities: Truss, takeovers and turbulence
11 Oct 2022
Charlotte Meyrick and Trevor Green discuss the key narratives driving UK equities and where they see opportunities amidst a challenging backdrop.
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Zero-COVID: China’s costly policy error
10 Aug 2022
Beijing’s ideological battle to stamp out COVID-19 appears increasingly misguided as the rest of the world learns to live with the virus. But the impact of China’s approach will be felt far beyond its borders.
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Global equity income Q&A: Richard Saldanha on the outlook for dividends and growth
3 Aug 2022
The lead manager of our Global Equity Income strategy discusses risks and opportunities for income-seeking investors in a turbulent time for markets.
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The AIQ Podcast: Taking stock of nature risk
15 Jul 2022
The idea that human actions are bringing natural systems close to breakdown, threatening livelihoods and financial stability, is making asset managers think harder about nature risk and the environmental dependencies in investee companies.
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UK Equity Income: Five questions with Chris Murphy
15 Jul 2022
The manager of our UK Equity Income strategy explains why investors need to change their mindsets about what to pay for growth and cautions against buying yield for its own sake.