OUR ARTICLE 8 UCITS FUNDS
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Yacktman US Equity Fund
The Fund aims to achieve capital growth by investing predominantly in a concentrated portfolio of U.S. Equities.
The Fund’s Sub-Investment Manager, Yacktman Asset Management LP, was established in 1992, operates out of Austin, Texas, and currently manage approximately USD 15.8 billion.
The firm seeks to be objective, patient and diligent in its investment approach, analysing investments from the bottom up. The investment philosophy focuses on purchasing high quality businesses with shareholder-orientated management at cheap valuations. The approach is that of investing in businesses and not speculating in stocks, focusing on companies that have a strong market position and relatively stable profit margins. The favoured companies typically sell products or services that have fairly predictable demand. Securities are selected one at a time with an emphasis on not overpaying, as a good business purchased at too high a price can be a bad investment. Stephen Yacktman was nominated for Morningstar’s Domestic Stock Fund Manager of the Year – 2011.
DRIEHAUS SMALL CAP
US EQUITY FUND
The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital growth. The Fund’s Sub-Investment Manager, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, is a privately-held boutique asset management firm located in Chicago, USA. The firm was founded in 1982 and has USD 14.7 billion of assets under management.
The strategy primarily invests in US small-capitalisation companies with good growth potential and with a market capitalisation within the same range at the time of investment as those included in the Russell 2000® Growth Index. Investment decisions are based on the belief that fundamentally strong companies are more likely to generate superior earnings growth on a sustained basis and are more likely to experience positive earnings revisions. Investment decisions involve evaluating a company’s competitive position, industry dynamics, identifying potential growth catalysts and assessing the financial position of the relevant company.
DRIEHAUS SMID CAP
US EQUITY FUND
The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital growth.
The Fund’s Sub-Investment Manager, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, is a privately-held boutique asset management firm located in Chicago, USA. The firm was founded in 1982 and has USD 19.7 billion of assets under management.
The strategy primarily invests in US small-capitalisation and US medium-capitalisation companies (together, “Small/Mid cap” or “SMID”) with good growth potential and with a market capitalisation within the same range at the time of investment as those included in the Russell 2500® Growth Index. Investment decisions are based on the belief that fundamentally strong companies are more likely to generate superior earnings growth on a sustained basis and are more likely to experience positive earnings revisions. Investment decisions involve evaluating a company’s competitive position, industry dynamics, identifying potential growth catalysts and assessing the financial position of the relevant company.
DRIEHAUS EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY FUND
The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital growth. The Fund’s Sub-Investment Manager, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, is a privately-held boutique asset management firm founded in 1982 and located in Chicago, USA.
The investment style is a bottom up growth equity investment approach. The strategy exploits equity market inefficiencies that materialize following inflection points, combining fundamental, behavioural, and macro analysis as well as integrating environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) criteria as part of the investment research process.
The approach focuses on companies with strong or improving ESG attributes and growth opportunities tied to social and environmental solutions, and robust governance structures. It also includes evaluating fundamental factors relating to the companies such as the competitiveness of the relevant industry, the company ’s business model, recent and projected financial metrics and upcoming product releases to be introduced by the company. Macroeconomic or country specific analyses are also utilized to evaluate the sustainability of a company’s growth rate.
HEPTAGON FUTURE TRENDS EQUITY FUND
The Fund aims to deliver consistent and sustainable long-term returns by investing in a concentrated portfolio of global equities.
The Fund seeks to invest in a diverse range of businesses offering exposure to the key trends which we believe will help shape the future. These trends naturally align with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and are trends which we believe will grow in importance regardless of the economy and regulation.
The Fund is highly concentrated with low levels of turnover, and is sector, size, and geography agnostic. Portfolio construction is conducted bottom-up, with an emphasis on quantitative and qualitative factors as well as ESG considerations. The Fund does not invest in areas such as gambling, weapons, or tobacco and engages in active dialogue with companies to foster good ESG practices and improve the sustainability profile of companies in the long-term. Fund Manager, Alex Gunz, has worked in finance since 1997 and prior to joining Heptagon in 2011 was a top-ranked analyst at firms including Credit Suisse and JP Morgan.
WCM Global Equity Fund
The Fund aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing primarily in equity securities of large cap global companies located throughout the world.
The Fund’s Sub-Investment Manager, WCM Investment Management, is an independent asset management firm based in Laguna Beach, California. The firm was founded in 1976 and has USD 80.4 billion of assets under management.
The Sub-Investment Manager uses a bottom-up approach that seeks to identify companies with attractive attributes, such as long-term historical growth in revenue and earnings, and/or a potential for superior future growth. The Sub-Investment Manager’s investment process seeks companies that are industry leaders who are viewed as innovators in their field with business strategies aimed at building on opportunities that have sustainable competitive advantages leading to the outperformance of competitors; corporate cultures emphasizing strong, quality and experienced management, with cultures that help to foster these attributes at management level; low or no debt; and attractive relative valuations.