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GUARDCAP GLOBAL EQUITY I GBP

A large-cap international equity fund focusing on companies offering sustainable growth.

PRICE (INC)

1499.2p

PRICE (ACC)

2880.5p

INITIAL CHARGE

0%

ANNUAL MANAGEMENT CHARGE

0.8%

ONGOING CHARGE

0.86%

YIELD

0.4%

1 YEAR

5.72%

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Prices as at 29 Aug 2023.

Fund commentary last updated 10 Oct 2022.

Past performance is not an indication of future performance.

Capital at risk.

The investment objective of the Fund is to seek long-term growth of capital with lower than market volatility. To achieve this, lead managers Michael Boyd and Giles Warren invest worldwide in large-cap companies which they believe will produce double-digit, sustained long-term growth in earnings and cashflow even during tough economic times. Their holdings include Google owner Alphabet. The managers favour having a concentrated portfolio of between 20 and 25 stocks and look to hold them for between 5 and 10 years as they grow in both profit and value They take an entirely bottom-up approach to investing, diligently researching a company’s fundamentals, including cashflow generation and the dynamism of its management teams.

Fund summary

Sector
Structure	OFFSHORE FUND
Launched	July 2015
Size	£2,662m
Yield	0.4%
Dividends paid	30 Apr

Charges

Standard Initial Charge	0%
Initial Charge Via BestInvest	0%
Additional Bid/Offer Spread	0%
Annual Management Charge	0.8%
Ongoing Charges Figure	0.86%

Investment Process

Boyd and Warren believe markets are too short-term focussed and fail to attribute sufficient value to the longer-term earnings and cash flows of sustainably growing companies. In contrast their fund looks to emphasise long-term thinking, forecasting and longer holding periods. The bottom-up investment process looks at whether companies meet their 10 Point Confidence Criteria. These include a proven track record of growth through hard economic times, businesses which are mature and not in a “sexy growth” phase, sector tailwinds, high returns on invested capital, little or no debt and business diversification. They also calculate a fair value for the companies based on factors such as cash flow and Price to Earnings ratio. The team relies on their expert knowledge to find companies which could fit the criteria, as well as using quantitative screens. Through this process a High Confidence Pool of up to 50 companies is created. Portfolio investment decisions are made by Boyd and Warren jointly, only selecting stocks from the Pool.

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