Grant Gordon Stuart Peterkin

Manulife Europe is a long-term, growth and income-oriented manager which invests through their funds in global equity, debt and alternative investments across market caps. They share research and management with other Manulife divisions and perform in-house fundamental research, supplemented by external analysts and employ top-down and bottom-up approaches to make investments.

LOAM Switzerland is a process-driven, active and passive manager whose investment strategy is devised by a dedicated team that scrutinizes financial universes in search of decisive new trends and undervalued assets. The firm offers a comprehensive range of single- and multi-strategy funds of hedge funds covering major geographical regions either globally or individually. Their traditional funds include equity (sectoral, international, regional, emerging markets, small and medium-sized companies), fixed-income (single or multi-currency, private or public issuers, emerging markets, convertible bonds, short-term investments), asset allocation and balanced funds. LOAM Switzerland employs a global approach, selecting the most experienced fund managers based on quantitative, qualitative, and structural criteria within strategies chosen for their outperformance potential in the economic and demographic environment. Their equity funds seek to include equities that are significantly undervalued in terms of fundamentals, focusing on stocks whose market behavior reflects upward trends. For their bond funds, they utilize active, opportunistic management, aiming to protect capital while outperforming the money market.

AIM’s investment process is the product of their “Focus on Change” philosophy and combines asset allocation, security selection, portfolio construction, dealing and risk management. They carry out rigorous research in all the major financial markets. Their dedicated risk management team measures and monitors risk across all portfolios. Each fund has a clearly defined specification setting out the parameters within which the portfolio manager can invest.

Lombard Odier-IM is an active, research-driven manager which focuses on long-term capital preservation and tailoring their services to their clients' profiles. The firm shares research globally and combines a top-down view with a bottom-up security selection process. Their investment strategy team elaborates and continuously updates macroeconomic forecasts and investment scenarios based on quantitative and technical analysis, resulting in geographical, sectoral and currency allocations. The buy side equity research team tracks a predefined universe of companies worldwide, with a focus on the Swiss market. They also identify promising sectors, regions and themes, assisted by the quantitative research team.

IIS is an active, research and conviction-based manager that employs an investment philosophy called Focus on Change, which aims to capture anomalies and inefficiencies between consensus and non-consensus analysis of companies. The firm seeks to consistently add value through their equity portfolios, following a bottom-up approach to construct portfolios comprised of opportunities with real potential. For fixed-income, IIS offers segregated and pooled vehicles across a range of fixed-income sub-sectors and geographies through investment grade corporate bonds, high yield corporate bonds, government bonds, emerging market debt, inflation-linked bonds and absolute return bond strategies.