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EQUITIES

Merian Global Investors has highly regarded investment capabilities – incorporating a range of both long-only and long/short strategies – covering most major stock markets, and a number of different investment styles.

We believe that success in equity investing requires a high degree of specialism, with investment approaches honed to reflect the distinctive nuances of diverse stock markets. Consistent with this belief, we have created an environment in which talented investment teams can thrive, taking true accountability for their performance, while being unencumbered by an imposed ‘house view’ or investment style. Over time, we have built and nurtured capabilities across global, UK, European, Asian and emerging market equities, offering a multitude of long-only and long/short capabilities, and covering different parts of the market capitalisation spectrum.

Philosophy

The managers believe that markets are not fully efficient and that stock prices often diverge from their fundamental value due to investors’ behavioural biases.

The investment process seeks to exploit these biases in a dynamic and efficient way, pursuing outperformance driven principally by bottom-up stock selection.

The team believes that a performance-oriented investment strategy should also be flexible, so that the prevailing conditions and outlook can be incorporated, thus ensuring the greatest scope for sustained outperformance.

Investment team

The team has three portfolio managers. Ian Heslop, has a PhD in medical chemistry and over 18 years’ investment experience. Amadeo Alentorn has a PhD in computational finance and Mike Servent holds a BA in physics from University of Oxford. The portfolio managers are supported by three analysts, Yuangao Liu, Sean Storey, Matus Mrazik and investment strategist Justin Wells.

Capabilities

  • Long-only global equities

    Merian World Equity Fund

    The strategy is characterised by a highly distinctive, flexible approach with no style bias. At the heart of the process is a powerful, 5-factor proprietary stock selection model. The result is a portfolio with the potential to offer excellent diversification from more traditional global equity strategies. The strategy offers access to a large opportunity set, underscored by a demonstrably repeatable, dispassionate investment process.

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  • Long-only global equity income

    Merian Global Equity Income Fund (IRL)

    The strategy aims to offer diversification benefits by looking beyond the more traditional sources of income-generating sectors – healthcare, telecommunications and utilities – to capture income. By adopting an unconstrained, total return approach the team seeks out what it believes are the most compelling investment opportunities. At the heart of the strategy is the global equity team’s demonstrably repeatable, dispassionate investment process.

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  • Long-only North American/US equities

    Merian North American Equity Fund

    The strategy is characterised by a highly distinctive, flexible approach with no style bias. At the heart of the process is a powerful, 5-factor proprietary stock selection model. The result is a portfolio with the potential to offer excellent diversification from more traditional North American equity strategies. The strategy offers access to an opportunity set of approximately 1,400 stocks, underscored by the global equity team’s demonstrably repeatable, dispassionate investment process.

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  • Long-only Asia ex-Japan equities

    Merian Pacific Equity Fund

    The fund is designed to capture and enhance the opportunity set afforded by Asian equities, by harnessing a unique, but highly diversified investment process. Adopting both top-down and bottom-up characteristics, the team focuses on stock selection across sectors by employing a combination of fundamental investment techniques, based on company-level data, with an evaluation of the prevailing market environment and levels of investor risk appetite across the investable universe. The team has strong conviction that this unique approach can deliver significant diversification from conventional concentrated, style-embedded funds.

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  • Long-only Asia ex-Japan equity income

    Merian Asian Equity Income Fund

    The fund is designed to capture and enhance the opportunity set afforded by Asian equities, by harnessing a unique, but highly diversified investment process. Adopting both top-down and bottom-up characteristics, the team focuses on stock selection across sectors by employing a combination of fundamental investment techniques, based on company-level data, with an evaluation of the prevailing market environment and levels of investor risk appetite across the investable universe. The team has strong conviction that this unique approach can deliver significant diversification from conventional concentrated, style-embedded funds. Unusually for an Asian equity income fund, the portfolio managers run the fund to achieve monthly distributions.

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Large-cap

Philosophy

The cornerstones of the approach are twofold: fundamental research into the companies in which we invest and a patient, long-term time horizon.

Many investors focus on the immediate outlook for companies and share prices. Quarterly result statements and the vagaries of current trading, together with concerns about the immediate direction of macroeconomic indicators, tend to drive share prices in the short term.

By contrast, our investment approach focuses on opportunities over a three to five year time horizon. Fundamental research into companies and their prospects over the long term seek to identify both winning business models and significant turnaround situations.

Investment team

Merian Global Investors’ UK large-cap equity team, headed by Richard Buxton, consists of four fund managers and four dedicated analysts. The broader UK equities team of 15 investment professionals offers capabilities in small- and mid-cap, large-cap, equity income and equity absolute return investing.

Mid- and small-cap

Philosophy

Merian Global Investors’ UK small- and mid-cap equities team’s approach is based on the belief that its universe of companies is less well researched than large companies, which results in share price inefficiencies.

They believe that a flexible style encompassing, for example, a willingness to hold value and/or growth stocks, depending on the conditions and outlook, provides the greatest scope for sustained outperformance.

The team makes extensive use of external (top-down and bottom-up) input and overlays this with its own detailed analytical work to identify potential investment opportunities.

Investment team

Our multi-award winning small- and mid-cap UK equity team, led by Dan Nickols, includes five portfolio managers and three analysts.

Capabilities

  • Long-only, high conviction, large-cap UK equities

    Merian UK Alpha Fund (IRL)

    Managed by the highly-respected Richard Buxton, the strategy is focused on maximising long-term capital growth through a high conviction portfolio, concentrated on 35 to 40 UK large-cap companies he believes have strong business models, healthy balance sheets and, as yet, unrecognised potential.

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Philosophy

The team believes that stock selection is the key to alpha generation and that opportunities for capital growth are best exploited by identifying catalysts for change at a stock level. The team believes it is possible, in a concentrated portfolio, to select stocks in quality businesses, at compelling valuations with strong growth prospects. The team sees inefficiencies increase lower down the market capitalisation scale so portfolios are unconstrained by capitalisation and also by country and sector.

Investment team

Led by the highly experienced Ian Ormiston, the European equity team includes portfolio manager Liam Nunn and research analyst Nikisha Mistry.

Capabilities

  • Long-only Europe (ex-UK) smaller companies

    Merian Europe (ex-UK) Smaller Companies Fund

    The strategy invests in European smaller companies and offers a blended investment style covering growth, value and quality. The manager believes that inefficiencies increase lower down the market capitalisation scale. Stocks are equally weighted with a view to enjoying diversification benefits and managing risk.

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  • Long-only, large-cap pan-European equities

    Merian European Equity Fund

    The strategy invests in European companies offering a blended investment style covering growth, value and quality. The manager believes that inefficiencies increase lower down the market capitalisation scale so the portfolio is unconstrained by capitalisation and also by country and sector. Stocks are equally weighted with a view to enjoying diversification benefits and managing risk.

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Philosophy

The overriding aim of the team is to invest in companies displaying quality at a reasonable price, quality being defined as companies with a defensible competitive advantage or ‘economic moat’, strong management team and displaying robust corporate governance characteristics. These attributes are typically found in companies with a high return on invested capital.

The team’s investment process has a strong bottom-up focus and it models all potential candidates for inclusion in the portfolio using a bespoke discounted cashflow model to establish intrinsic values. These are then compared with the prevailing market price to ascertain whether or not a discount exists.  A discount typically justifies a buy recommendation.

Investment team

The highly experienced team, headed by Nick Payne, includes fellow fund managers, Salman Siddiqui and Liz Fernandes.

Capabilities

  • Merian Global Emerging Markets Fund

    Merian Global Emerging Markets Fund

    The strategy invests across emerging and frontier markets through a high conviction portfolio of 30-40 companies that, the managers believe, possess strong business models, healthy balance sheets and, as yet, unrecognised investment potential.

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