John M. Payne

Quaero Capital takes an active role in its investment processes. Their funds aim to achieve long-term capital growth.

HEXAM is an active, blended, thematic manager which aims to provide superior longer-term returns by managing high conviction, concentrated portfolios. The firm performs fundamental research which they combine with investment experience, local knowledge and closeness to local markets to exploit inefficiencies of global emerging markets within their portfolio. HEXAM believes that combining both growth and valuation to identify growth at a reasonable price will lead to more consistent, strong long-term results and their ultimate aim is to seek unrecognized growth at both the stock and country levels. The firm also combines top-down country allocation and bottom-up stock selection in a disciplined process.

Barings UK focuses on building long-term, trusted partnerships with their clients and utilizes an active management approach, built upon fundamental analysis, to help meet their long-term investment goals. The firm leverages its depth and breadth of expertise across the global fixed income, alternative investment and equity markets. Their expansive asset market coverage, includes global fixed income presence and high active equity expertise in international and emerging markets, contributes to the firm’s strength in multi-asset investing. This encompasses solutions such as income, target return and absolute return.

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.