22 February 2010 13:00
Stocks have to be in the “top quartile” for value (that is, bottom quartile for price) before the manager will research them.
The outcome is a portfolio which averages about 30 stocks.
The firm’s global fund has a return of 2.4 per cent since its December 2005 inception, compared with the MSCI index return of minus 4.8 per cent. The fund’s three-year outperformance of the index is 9.4 per cent and one year (to December last) is 12.2 per cent.
The $205 billion Aware Super says that around 15 per cent of assets in its high-growth option are exposed to the AI thematic, but says that finding the portfolio's true concentration will require looking beyond simple dollar aggregation. Head of investment strategy Michael Winchester unpacks the approach and why the fund has to be “really discerning” with where it allocates to in the future.
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