Sean Beck

Border to Coast designs, develops and manages investments to support their Partner Funds’ strategic asset allocations across equities, fixed income, private markets, and real estate. They believe that strong and sustainable investment performance is delivered through robust portfolio risk, research, and responsible investment capabilities. All their investment decisions integrate the evaluation of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors, in line with their responsible investment policy. Active management adds value over the long-term and enables better integration of ESG considerations.

Troy aims to protect investors’ capital and increase its value over the long-term. The firm manages a focused range of investment strategies covering multi-asset, UK equity income, global equity and global equity income. Also, they offer an exclusion-based ethical capability. Their vehicles can be accessed through UK domiciled funds, Irish domiciled funds and investment trusts. Troy conducts thorough research, and manages concentrated, low-turnover portfolios of their best ideas. Their approach is to invest with an absolute return mindset, unconstrained by any benchmark.

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.