Steve Ilott

CTAM is an active manager that performs in-house research, strategic analysis, and risk modeling to reach decisions. The firm conducts company visits as one of the key areas of their research. The firm is a self-described 'multi-boutique' that is organized into small teams that follow specific products. They offer funds investing in a range of assets such as real estate, equities, fixed-income, and multi-manager. CTAM provides a variety of alternative, ethical, lifestyle, and investment trust strategies.

aIL is an active manager that makes their investment decisions using first-hand research. They conduct proprietary research to identify investment opportunities with attractive risk-reward characteristics. The firm combines multiple non-correlated investment decisions with risk monitoring and management. Their strategies include equities, fixed income, private markets, alternative investments and real estate. aIL utilizes a bottom-up, fundamental stock-picking approach, where sector, regional and country allocations are a residual of their bottom-up stock selection decisions, constrained by appropriate risk controls.

Provides asset management and investment advisory

Functions as an investment holding company

TRC is an active manager which performs in-house research, aiming to achieve absolute returns. They aggregate large European companies to form a proprietary index into which stocks are categorized into unstable financials, stable financials, defensive, growth, TMT and cyclical style sectors. Stock selection is bottom-up (quantitative and qualitative) as well as top-down. TRC invests through their income funds in debt securities and currencies worldwide, seeking unrecognized value in liquid bonds and currency markets, using yield curve positioning and allocation strategies based on political and macroeconomic analysis, as well as financial and management scoring of companies.

BCM-UK follows a specialist model investment approach and focuses on global arbitrage. They invest in fixed-income and currencies and use the derivatives markets to implement their investment views. The firm focuses on small- and micro-cap firms in the UK and other European countries, seeking to identify firms whose underlying stocks are undervalued on an internal discounted cash flow analysis. They have a preference for the financial, information technology and consumer sectors.