The investment team seeks to invest in companies with franchise characteristics that are benefiting from an accelerating profit cycle and are trading at a discount to private market value.
Security Selection
Identify companies with franchise characteristics and defensible competitive positions
Invest in emerging profit cycles
Purchase stocks at a discount to private market value
Assess key environmental, social and governance issues that could impact future stock returns
Capital Allocation—Garden, Crop, Harvest® Investing
Build position size according to conviction
GardenSM — Smaller position sizes in companies that are early on in the profit cycle
CropSM — Larger position sizes in companies where profit cycle is being realized
HarvestSM — Reduced or sold positions as stock approaches full valuation or profit cycle begins to decelerate
Broad Knowledge
Invest opportunistically across entire global economy