Guinness Asset Management has been awarded a mandate for its Global Innovators Fund by Alpha Fund Managers the funds management arm of a leading financial planning and wealth management group. The mandate indicates strong support for the Guinness’ focus on innovative growth.
“The innovation focus of the Guinness strategy resonates with our view on where future capital appreciation in global equities will be clustered. Concentrated portfolios with a high active share are attributes we typically like in addition to demonstrable outperformance, all of which which Guinness has in spades” said Julien Brodie, Portfolio Manager at Alpha Fund Managers.
“We are delighted that Alpha decided to invest with us, we think our focus on Innovation and equally weighted concentrated portfolios appealed to Alpha,” said Tim Guinness, Founder and CIO.
With its concentrated portfolio of innovative, high quality, growth companies, the Fund delivered a total return of 22% vs the MSCI World Index Return of 12.42% in 2017, outperforming the benchmark by 9.58%. It has also performed well in recent volatile markets.