Ben Smith

Provides investment advice

Vintra Capital employs deep fundamental, bottom-up research to seek out individual long and short opportunities in developed markets with a focus on liquid, large or mid-cap stocks. The long portfolio targets high quality businesses with secular growth and competitive advantages where the share price is highly dislocated. The short portfolio seeks to position low quality businesses with structural challenges where the share price is overhyped. Their strategy is designed to protect capital during downturns and capture equity market upside during upturns with a strong focus on risk management.

NIM is a thematic, team-oriented manager which conducts in-house research to identify themes and trends that influence, or are likely to influence, economies or stock markets globally. The firm focuses their research on the areas they believe are most likely to yield the best performing securities. Portfolio managers construct equity and fixed-income model portfolios in teams. For equity portfolios, the most important aspect of portfolio construction is stock selection as bottom-up decisions drive, to a large extent, a portfolio’s allocation to countries, sectors, and currencies. Their fixed income portfolios utilize both their top-down view of the world’s bond and currency markets and bottom-up investment selection process.