Tom Carroll

RAM is an active manager seeking consistent performance to achieve medium- to long-term growth and income. Rather than adhering to a particular style of investment, the firm stays pragmatic and attentive to economic and market conditions. They allocate assets following a top-down strategy based on internal research combined with external sources. The fund managers decide as a team in which countries and sectors to invest. They select stock following a bottom-up approach, seeking companies with fundamental value, sustainable business models, quality management, good market position and products and good cash generation. Their sell decisions result from a rigorous process and are triggered by a significant change in fundamentals or management changes or shortfalls.

Sanlam UK is an active, flexible and pragmatic manager which believes that market inefficiencies exist and looks for pricing anomalies created by short-term volatility. They focus on fundamental intrinsic valuation for invested capital over the long-term. The firm's investment process is driven by bottom-up stock-picking based on the fundamental factors that shape share prices such as cash flow returns and valuation. Portfolios are constructed following their high conviction approach and are either a strategic or a tactical holding.

SIM is an active investment manager that utilizes a contrarian investment approach supported by fundamental, in-house research, regular company visits and their group's global network. Research is shared worldwide within the parent group and is organized in specialist teams, with local specialists contributing their expertise to global sector teams. The firm also utilizes their proprietary software, the Global Research Investment Database, to integrate and distribute in-house and external research, assisting investment managers in portfolio construction. They manage risk through another proprietary tool called Portfolio Risk Investment Strategy Manager (PRISM).