Aled G. Smith

MAGIM follows a bottom-up approach to select equities, seeking to identify companies with clear corporate strategies, strong finances, hard-to-replicate assets and talented management.

GIB UK’s investment activities generally focus on investments in various kinds of assets and securities in the global developed markets and the emerging markets. Their investment teams actively manage a range of global equities, corporate investment grade and below investment grade fixed income, emerging market debt, structured credit and trade finance. In allocating client assets, the firm may employ several strategies, including active and passive strategies that focus on equities fixed income and trade finance markets in different jurisdictions such as in Europe and other developed markets, as well as various emerging market economies.

Ruffer aims to deliver consistent positive returns – whatever happens in financial markets. The firm actively manages investments, mainly in conventional assets, and operates freely, without restrictive benchmarks. In all they do, they seek to be responsible investors, integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into their investment process. Ruffer always holds investments in what they call growth and protection. They hold these alongside each other, changing the allocation to each over time. The growth assets are typically equities. The protective assets are usually a combination of conventional and index–linked bonds, currencies, derivatives and exposure to commodities.

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