Polar Capital Global Insurance I GBP

Investment Process

The fund's aim is long term capital growth through investment in companies operating in the international insurance sector. Such companies may include, Property/Casualty, Lloyd's vehicles, Re-insurers and Life Assurance companies. The fund can also hold bonds and cash. The manager adopts a bottom up investment style and pays close attention to company value. In depth knowledge of portfolio companies is gained from industry contacts, as well as a short list of firms who specialise in researching the insurance industry. Generally there are four things that the manager considers for a prospective investment: (i) What is the company underwriting; (ii) Are they making an underwriting profit; (iii) Quality of management and (iv) Reserving. The fund's reference benchmark is the MSCI World Insurance Index, the managers are eligible for a performance fee of 10% of any outperformance of the benchmark index.