Michael Besley

Ellerston Capital is a specialist investment manager with a distinctive approach to portfolio construction and investment selection. The firm aims to grow and protect their clients’ wealth through identifying stocks that are temporarily misunderstood and fundamentally mispriced.

CMIL is an active real estate securities manager which employs a top-down and bottom-up research and analysis approach to select investments with the aim of delivering a projected rate of return above that of listed real estate trusts. The firm uses a four-step investment approach to select listed infrastructure securities, first using cash flow and market intelligence from numerous sources to screen ideas. They then examine the company's business including monopoly status and customer base, pricing power, operating margins, volatility of cash flows and probability of distributions. Then the firm performs fundamental analysis and valuation, developing a report on the key financial and qualitative aspects for the remaining securities. CMIL uses a three-step process to select and manage unlisted infrastructure assets, first looking at geography, quality of asset, potential yield, quality of management and the competitive environment. Deals that get through the first phase are then subject to investigation by a multidisciplinary team, which looks at tax, structure, legal issues, financial modeling and comprehensive market and asset-specific information. Finally, a dedicated asset manager is assigned to each project and reports back to the portfolio manager with regular updates on all key issues. The final portfolio reflects the outcome of the firm's fundamental security and asset selection process by the listed infrastructure securities and unlisted infrastructure asset teams. Asset allocation is determined by the portfolio manager.