Daniel Winterbottom

CTFM performs in-house research, strategic analysis and risk-modeling to reach decisions. The firm offers funds that invest in a range of assets including real estate, equities, fixed-income and multi-manager. In addition, they provide a variety of alternative, ethical, lifestyle and investment trust strategies.

SIM is an active investment manager that utilizes a contrarian investment approach supported by fundamental, in-house research, regular company visits and their group's global network. Research is shared worldwide within the parent group and is organized in specialist teams, with local specialists contributing their expertise to global sector teams. The firm also utilizes their proprietary software, the Global Research Investment Database, to integrate and distribute in-house and external research, assisting investment managers in portfolio construction. They manage risk through another proprietary tool called Portfolio Risk Investment Strategy Manager (PRISM).

TRC is an active manager which performs in-house research, aiming to achieve absolute returns. They aggregate large European companies to form a proprietary index into which stocks are categorized into unstable financials, stable financials, defensive, growth, TMT and cyclical style sectors. Stock selection is bottom-up (quantitative and qualitative) as well as top-down. TRC invests through their income funds in debt securities and currencies worldwide, seeking unrecognized value in liquid bonds and currency markets, using yield curve positioning and allocation strategies based on political and macroeconomic analysis, as well as financial and management scoring of companies.