Leigh Austin Himsworth

RLAM is an active long-term investor that seeks to identify companies with strong growth potential, durable business franchises, capable management and fair valuation, combining top-down economic and bottom-up sector analysis with risk controls to construct portfolios. The firm selects stock based on analysis of company business models and financial outlook. For fixed-income investments, they evaluate economic reviews of bonds, equities, real estate and cash.

Provides investment management and advisory services to businesses, institutions, and private investors

FIA UK is an active manager which aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation through a bottom-up approach. They focus on individual companies that seek to identify fundamental value in stocks. The firm uses a wide variety of investment strategies in managing client assets. FIA-UK conducts fundamental research, focusing on business franchise, trading environment, valuation, and management. Top-down considerations complement their approach, with attention paid to political, environmental and social issues likely to impact on a company's potential.

RFM is an active, research-based manager which combines long-term strategy with short-term tactics to enable them to take advantage of market movements as they happen. The Rensburg Unit Trusts seek to minimize investment exposure through diversification, providing income and growth strategies. The firm constructs diversified portfolios and performs company visits to develop stock ideas, seeking companies with competent management, an emphasis on building shareholder value and a sound business environment.

EF is an active investment manager following a flexible, multi-strategy investment approach tailored to their clients' profile. They favor asset diversification and balanced portfolios. Investment decisions are based on in-depth proprietary research which pays particular attention to market trends. EF invests globally in equity, gilts and bonds, focusing on the UK. They also invest in other asset classes including emerging market securities and private or public company growth capital. In particular, they invest in private equity, pre-IPO funding, IPO operations and secondaries. EF has specialist expertise in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, biotechnology and medical devices. They acquire significant stakes in innovative companies, and promote their growth. They favor companies with strong IP protection.

City Financial is an active manager which tailors their investment management services in accordance with each fund’s investment strategy across asset classes, geographies and strategies, aiming to achieve risk-adjusted returns with minimal correlation to equity and fixed-income markets. The firm seeks to grow assets organically (through fund performance and net subscriptions) and through strategic acquisitions of pools of assets or companies. They also partner with teams managing portfolios for alternative strategies.

McInroy & Wood seeks the preservation of the real value of their clients’ capital and its purchasing power over time. The firm aims to achieve for clients the best total return (capital gains plus income received) consistent with the avoidance of undue risk, balancing capital and income requirements their discretionary management service is provided through one of two parallel formats: either on a segregated basis via a portfolio of individual securities held in nominee name to the firm’s order for the client; or on a “pooled” basis via a holding in one or more of the MW funds. McInroy & Wood invests internationally in a balance of quality equities and bonds, including an appropriate balance of cash.