Global Focus
Global Focus
Global Focus
MIRABAUD – EQUITIES
GLOBAL FOCUS
AGENDA
Global Equities
Mirabaud
Regional Equities
Asset
Clear Targets
• Focus on companies that are innovative 110.8%
• Companies need to benefit from key global themes Upside capture**
63%
Downside capture**
Sources: Mirabaud Asset Management as at 29 November 2019. *FE Analytics as at 29 November 2019 relative to IA Global Sector
for Mirabaud – Equities Global Focus. ** Mirabaud Asset Management, three years to 31 July 2019. *** Morningstar as at 29
November 2019. Past performance is not indicative of a guarantee of future returns
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Mirabaud Equities Global Focus I Cap USD 23.49% 1.94% 6.54% 16.05% 61.83%
Source: Mirabaud Asset Management, 29 November 2019. I CAP US Dollar Share Class, net of fees
Past performance is not indicative or a guarantee of future returns. Indices are not available for direct investment. Performance figures do not
take into account subscription and redemption fees and costs.
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Volatility
40
10
0
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Annualised Volatility
3 Year Attribution
Contribution
-10 0 10 20 30 40
• 0
• •
• Sustainability of growth: Millennial population that is • Sustainability of growth: Mastercard remains in a
moving into greater earning years ‘duopoly positon. Global payments industry growing at a
• Leadership insight: Ability to collect consumer data to 11% compounded annual growth rate*
spot trends and inform better brand strategies • Leadership in technology: Global platform which links
the whole payments ecosystem from banks, to customers
• Thematic Tailwind – Millennial Consumer: One of
and merchants. Very difficult to replicate.
the world’s most important generation cohorts in terms
of consumer spending • Thematic Tailwind - Platform Companies: Digital
enablers that show more persistent growth
FINDING OPPORTUNITIES
COMPANIES WITH STRONG COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND
INNOVATIVE EDGE
Broad IDENTIFYING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Universe Rank every sub-sector by growth
Focus on sub-sectors growing faster than GDP
Identify sub-sectors that are benefitting from global themes
We focus on One in
companies that
meet responsible
one out
Best ideas approach. New
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Stock
criteria entrants must be better portfolio
than any existing holdings
Only select stocks with a
Sustainalytics score of over 50
As high conviction investors, our focus is on owning companies for a long period of time
A thematic approach leads the Fund to investment opportunities in non-cyclical companies
Fundamentals
Pillar 1
or gradually reducing
If valuations look too stretched relative to the weighting
similar opportunities in the sector globally, the
position will be re-evaluated
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62 61 61
60
60 59 59 59
58
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56
54
52
50
48
46
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Global Score Environment Score Social Score Governance Score
Mirabaud - Equities Global Focus Benchmark
Source: Quarter-end date - Mirabaud, Sustainalytics, 31 October 2019. Benchmark is MSCI AC World Index.
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A FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENT GOVERNANCE RISK RATING
ESG RATING SOCIAL
16.8/100
78/100 74 86 72
(Weight 40%) Low Risk
(Weight 35%) (Weight 25%)
Leader
Source: Sustainalytics
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ESG SWOT
STRENGTHS WEAKNESS OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
The quality of the company’s Even though Xylem Inc is spending Government green drive opens an Liability laws differ across countries
equipment impacts water quality and more than the average research and opportunity for procurement of and Xylem may be exposed to
water services, thereby directly development expenditure within the Xylem products by the state as well various liability claims given policy
influencing water ecosystems and industry, it is spending way less than as federal government contractors, changes in those markets. This could
customers’ health. a few players within the industry that this could positively impact revenues have a material adverse effect on
have had a significant advantage as New environmental policies. New their competitive position.
High level of customer satisfaction a result of their innovative opportunities will create a level
– the company with its dedicated products. Disruptions to their supply chain,
playing field for all industry players. It
customer relationship management increased costs, due to hard Brexit.
represents an opportunity for Xylem
department has able to achieve a The unpredictable nature of
to drive home its advantage in new If they do not, or cannot adequately
high level of customer satisfaction weather conditions and climate
technology and gain market share in protect intellectual property, if third
among present customers and good change may result in volatility for
the new product category. parties infringe their intellectual
brand equity among the potential certain portions of our business, as
customers. well as the operations of certain of Technological developments property rights, or if third parties claim
our customers and suppliers. come with numerous benefits across that they are infringing or
Highly skilled workforce through many departments. Operations can misappropriating their intellectual
successful training and learning Xylem takes into consideration be automated to reduce costs; better property rights, they may suffer
programs. Xylem is investing huge sustainability early in the design data may be collected on customers competitive injury, expend significant
resources in training and phase; however, there is limited to improve marketing efforts. This resources enforcing their rights or
development of its employees evidence of end-of-life programs. could favourably impact gross defending against such claims, or be
resulting in a workforce that is not margin prevented from selling products or
only highly skilled but also motivated Increase in education and training by services, which could adversely
to achieve more. numerous institutes has increased impact their competitive position,
the amount of skilled labour business and financial condition.
available within the country. If Xylem
If the Federal Communications
is able to hire skilled labour, it would
Commission (“FCC”) did not renew
have to spend less on training and
their existing spectrum licenses,
development, thus saving costs and
their business could be adversely
increasing productivity.
affected.
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Research • Market often overestimates the fade rate on growth A global leader in
Insight companies like Ecolab water hygiene
• 12% market share from an addressable market of $125bn working with
– 5x the next biggest competitor commercial
laundries to help
• Dominant market share, which is sustainable
Leadership improve efficiency
• Largest Research & Development Budget in their industry
• Largest and most efficient salesforce
• Focus on sustainability
60%
Midfielders
50% Consistent growth, less impacted by
40% shifts in the economy
30% Example in portfolio: Mastercard*
20%
10% Defenders
0% High sustainable growth rates and
lower stock price volatility
Example in portfolio: Compass*
Attackers Midfielders Defenders Cash Increased as market moves risk-off
Source: Mirabaud Asset Management 29 November 2019. Attackers are top quartile by stock price volatility and defenders are bottom quartile
*Note: These are current examples in the Mirabaud – Equities Global Focus portfolio and are provided for information purposes only. They
are not a recommendation to buy or sell and are shown for illustrative purposes only
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SUMMARY
High active, Global Equity Fund, with a focus on
themes to drive sustainable growth
Ageing Population
Explosion of Data
Millennial Consumer
Platform Companies
Service Economy
Tencent
Automation
•
•
Creating a large network of captive users for one initial service, then
continually layering more services, creating strong consumer dependency
Ability to grow at quicker rates than traditional industries
Represent $2.6 trillion in market-cap worldwide
Leverages technology to disrupt
Source: Bernstein
THEME: HEALTH & WELLBEING
TAKING ACTION
DIVERSIFIED BY THEME
Service Economy Ageing Population
9.59% 20.05%
Automation
8.53%
Real Estate and
Infrastructure
19.97%
Explosion of data
13.29%
Platform
Companies
7.71%
Health and
Wellbeing
Millenial Consumer 6.86%
11.00%
Source: Factset and Mirabaud Asset Management 29 November 2019. Excludes cash.
THE DETAIL
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LARGE-CAP BIAS
BLENDS WINNERS OF TODAY WITH WINNERS OF TOMORROW
16.89
$20-50bn 22.61
26.93
$10-20bn 12.5
3.38
$5-10bn 7.43
9.22
$2-5bn 2.32
3.35
$0.5-2bn 0.16
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Fund Benchmark
Hard coding of pre-trade rules Volatility / tracking error Portfolio statistics: past
of fund and IMA requirements Active share / off-benchmark performance, T.E., volatility
allocation Review of performance
Concentration / correlation / attribution vs. risk attribution
Monitoring of post-trade and systematic & stock-specific risk Transaction analysis:
end of day limits
Portfolio breakdowns by market winners/losers ratios, holding
cap, sector, country, currency, period, drawdown / momentum
Internal and external audit duration etc. analysis
Contribution to volatility / T.E. / Current and future positioning
beta on a stock level and its impact on the statistics
Scenario analysis: what ifs?
Additional risk and attribution reporting is aligned to the themes identified by the Global Equity team
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MANAGING RISK
RISK IN AN INDEPENDENT FUNCTION WITHIN MIRABAUD
Dedicated risk management team of six ‘risk’ professionals
Dénes
The risk function works closely with portfolio Galyó
management and the business. It sits independently from
the portfolio management function and reports directly into the CEO of Mirabaud Asset Management
Dénes Galyó
Chief Risk Of ficer
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE
MIRABAUD - EQUITIES GLOBAL FOCUS I CAP. USD
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Fund 2019 7.05 3.60 3.68 3.14 -2.26 5.84 0.93 -2.16 -0.28 0.13 2.09 23.49
Benchmark 7.90 2.67 1.26 3.38 -5.93 6.55 0.29 -2.37 2.10 2.74 2.44 22.29
Fund 2018 7.02 -0.68 -0.48 -1.39 1.82 1.06 2.84 1.69 1.87 -7.04 3.50 -6.03 3.39
Benchmark 5.64 -4.20 -2.14 0.95 0.12 -0.54 3.02 0.79 0.44 -7.49 1.46 -7.04 -9.42
Fund 2017 3.79 1.76 0.97 2.75 2.16 -0.12 2.67 2.19 2.76 0.11 3.76 1.96 27.67
Benchmark 2.73 2.81 1.22 1.56 2.21 0.45 2.79 0.38 1.93 2.08 1.94 1.61 23.97
Fund 2016 -6.27 -4.33 4.70 -0.15 1.58 -1.10 2.53 -1.13 1.36 -2.87 0.66 -0.72 -6.06
Benchmark -6.03 -0.69 7.41 1.48 0.13 -0.61 4.31 0.34 0.61 -1.70 0.76 2.16 7.86
Fund 2015 -1.65 -0.97 -1.37 3.67 -5.94 -3.37 7.46 -0.13 -2.14 -4.92
Benchmark 0.50 -0.13 -2.35 0.87 -6.86 -3.62 7.85 -0.83 -1.80 -6.79
Source: Mirabaud Asset Management, 29 November 2019. I CAP US Dollar Share Class, net of fees
Past performance is not indicative or a guarantee of future returns. Indices are not available for direct investment. Performance figures do not
take into account subscription and redemption fees and costs.
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Automation
Theme 2: Automation Theme Impact to Portfolio
• We have moved from mobile-first
Fund Holdings world to AI-first world Performance YTD*
• Waymo has driven more than 10m
miles in Autonomous Vehicles on
public roads Average weight: 5.84%
Adobe • Beneficiaries: Software, Industrials Total return: 27.70%
Zebra Technologies Contribution to return: 1.84%
Alphabet
*Absolute attribution for the period 31 December 2018 to 29 November 2019. Company names in bold denote current holdings.
Past performance is not indicative of a guarantee of future returns
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Explosion of Data
Theme 4: Explosion of Data Theme Impact to Portfolio
Fund Holdings • 90% data on Earth was created in Performance YTD*
last 2 years
• Internet traffic growth accelerated
again to 26% Average weight: 9.28%
PayPal • Beneficiaries: Industrials, Software, Total return: 25.08%
Edenred Semis Contribution to return: 2.55%
Texas Instruments
Broadridge Financial Solutions
*Absolute attribution for the period 31 December 2018 to 29 November 2019. Holdings YTD: Company names in bold denote current holdings.
Past performance is not indicative of a guarantee of future returns
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*Absolute attribution for the period 31 December 2018 to 29 November 2019. Company names in bold denote current holdings
Past performance is not indicative of a guarantee of future returns
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Millennial Consumer
Theme 8: Millennial Consumer Theme Impact to Portfolio
*Absolute attribution for the period 31 December 2018 to 29 November 2019. Company names in bold denote current holdings
Past performance is not indicative of a guarantee of future returns
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5th Floor, 10 Bressenden Place, London
SW1E 5DH
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Marketing Analyst
[email protected]
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