Andrea Nannini

HSBC GAM-UK provides a globally- consistent, disciplined, investment process across their major capabilities. The firm aims to achieve sustainable solutions for their clients. In their investment process, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) analysis is incorporated alongside financial analysis to quantify a company’s potential risks and returns over the longer term. HSBC GAM-UK utilizes various methods of analysis in formulating investment advice or managing assets.

BIAM emphasizes long-term investments, bottom-up stock-picking approach and cash flow analysis. They base their investment process on fundamental research including company visits and extensive use of outsourced industrial expertise from non-financial analysts associated with the sectors in which they invest. The firm invests globally in listed equity, debt and alternative asset classes including private equity. BIAM favors companies with strong cash flow, growth potential within their sector and solid business models. They have specialist expertise in emerging market securities, both equity and fixed income, and invest in the Far East, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

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HCM-UK is primarily an alternative investment manager who also advises traditionally-managed portfolios. The firm invests globally in equity, fixed income, and alternative asset classes with a particular focus on Russia and emerging markets. The bulk of their assets are invested in European equity and fixed income. The firm is an active investment manager with a long-term investment horizon. Fundamental analysis and decentralized decisions are paramount to the firm's investment approach, and they occasionally follow a contrarian investment style. The investment process is conviction-driven. Within strategies, the firm does not customize or tailor their approach. Traditionally-managed equity portfolios are diversified with relatively low turnover. Extensive fundamental analysis informs the firm's bottom-up investment process and aims at identifying mispriced stocks of European companies with superior profitability potential. Company visits are part of the research process, as is quantitative analysis. Investment decisions are made autonomously by small focused teams specialized in an asset class or a strategy, and not following any particular investment style. HCM-UK specializes in portfolio construction, hedge fund analysis, and management of funds of hedge funds.

ADIA-IM’s investment departments are responsible for building and managing investment portfolios within the parameters set for them through the asset allocation process. These departments, which invest across multiple asset classes and geographies, have discretion over the origination and recommendation of investment proposals. The firm’s strategy and planning activities work in tandem, aligning organizational priorities with investment objectives through the ADIA Wide-Planning (AWP) process. The Strategy & Planning Department (SPD) plays a central role in ADIA-IM’s investment process, with responsibility for developing, maintaining and periodically reviewing ADIA’s Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) across more than two dozen asset classes and sub-categories.