Nigel James Lanning

RCM-UK is an active, growth-oriented investment manager which invests in global equity and debt across all market caps. They work in a team-orientated meritocracy, focusing on constructing portfolios that offer attractive risk-adjusted returns. Independent fundamental research is the cornerstone of the firm's investment philosophy and they aim to identify market anomalies in the pricing of assets/securities to produce superior performance for clients over the long term. RCM-UK believes that independent fundamental research is critical in identifying stocks that demonstrate quality and growth characteristics at the appropriate valuation and seeks to select stocks with growth prospects over and above those of the underlying sector, a realistic and attractive valuation relative to peers and which have quality management teams, strong franchises, market leading products and transparency of accounts. The firm employs a holistic approach to equity portfolio construction and believes that regional portfolios do not fully capture the value inherent in a truly global portfolio. Portfolio management teams construct the firm's portfolios, which are generally focused on a particular product and or region. Their in-house research is supplemented by research services provided by specialists from Allianz and Grassroots Research, a separate and proprietary research entity within RCM-UK.