James Gerald Ferguson

aIL is an active manager that makes their investment decisions using first-hand research. They conduct proprietary research to identify investment opportunities with attractive risk-reward characteristics. The firm combines multiple non-correlated investment decisions with risk monitoring and management. Their strategies include equities, fixed income, private markets, alternative investments and real estate. aIL utilizes a bottom-up, fundamental stock-picking approach, where sector, regional and country allocations are a residual of their bottom-up stock selection decisions, constrained by appropriate risk controls.

AAI is an active, research-driven manager which employs bottom-up asset analysis combined with a macroeconomic view to seek market mispricing opportunities and provide investors with superior returns. Their overall investment approach is anchored by their fundamental research and in-house expertise across asset classes including UK and international equities, real estate, bonds and cash. The firm typically adopts a long-term investment horizon when selecting equities, basing their investment decisions on in-house criteria and focusing on the firm's prospects over a five-year horizon. For government bonds, they utilize top-down analysis and a combination of bottom-up and macroeconomic research for corporate bonds.