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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.

SIIL is an active, long-term investment manager which follows a multi-level approach aiming to add value at multiple levels while ensuring overall return and outperform the targeted benchmark. The firm constructs diversified portfolios tailored to their clients' risk-return profiles, combining a range of asset classes, managers, styles, market capitalizations, investment processes and regions. They regularly monitor risk. SIIL leverages their access to infrastructure and resources through the Sanlam Group, offering retail, institutional, international funds and segregated products.

Provides financial planning, wealth and portfolio management services

PIM is a team-oriented, research-based manager which follows a structured approach to portfolio management. Rather than selecting stocks, the firm seeks to create and maintain a balance between different asset types, geographical markets and industry sectors. They reduce risk by holding a diversified portfolio, without undue concentration in any single stock or market sector. The firm uses equities and equity-based funds to create the potential for capital growth and uses fixed-income, securities or cash to create the appropriate portfolio balance. PIM's managed fund portfolio service offers unit trusts, OEICs and investment trusts to investors, providing diversified market exposure and helping to spread risk. The firm's research process helps managers to select investments from their core list of recommended funds, seeking to provide a balance between UK and overseas markets and between different categories of funds. PIM's directly invested portfolio provides a personalized portfolio of individual stocks and shares, concentrating on high quality investments in mainstream markets, with an emphasis on the leading 350 UK companies. The firm does not manage any in-house funds.