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Ninety One

Ninety One

Established in South Africa in 1991, as Investec Asset Management, the firm started offering domestic investments in an emerging market. In 2020, almost three decades of organic growth later, the firm demerged from Investec Group and became Ninety One. Today the firm offers distinctive active strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives to institutions, advisors and individual investors around the world.

Ninety One is an independent, active global asset manager dedicated to delivering compelling outcomes for its clients, with an AUM of £128.6 billion as at 31.12.20.

Investment involves risk.

Insights

Ninety One outlines the key considerations – relating to returns, fees and benchmark construction – behind its view that passive approaches are sub-optimal for EM debt investors.

Over time, Motorola has transformed itself into a provider of critical communication networks for emergency services globally. Ninety One’s Paul Jones explains why this makes the company an ideal candidate for the Quality universe.

Ninety One believes prospective returns from here look attractive, meaning that any buyers in the trough of this cycle could be well rewarded.

In this Q&A, Ninety One’s Value team explains how it hunts for mispricings in moments of rising uncertainty in markets.

Growth momentum is building across the Chinese economy, not solely in technology-linked sectors. Ninety One sees opportunities for investors to align with the country’s ongoing structural transformation.

Ninety One portfolio manager Matt Christ describes a private credit deal that taps into two major themes: the transition to low-carbon economies and infrastructure growth in emerging markets.

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Focus Funds

Seeks to capture the structural decarbonisation growth story – investing in companies that are driving the transition to a low carbon world.

Investing in companies making a positive contribution to the future of society and the environment.

A differentiated Quality approach to American equity investing.

A Quality approach focused on the growth engine of the world. The expanding opportunity set in Asia, we believe, provides a highly investable, liquid and diverse group of exceptional quality companies.

A core UK equity income fund focused on sustainable dividend growth, investing in attractively valued quality businesses.

A tried and tested defensive return strategy with a proven track record of protecting the downside in weak markets and capturing the upside in less challenging conditions.

A flexible multi-asset strategy aiming to compound high total returns through time.

Regulation

From early August, financial advisers have been required to incorporate sustainability preferences into their clients’ suitability assessment. However, many advisers have struggled to adapt their processes, with relatively loose guidance provided by the regulator, and a lack of clear measurement tools.
It is over a year since the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) was introduced in Europe. The UK’s Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) came into effect at the start of this year and US regulators are also working on a new disclosure regime. These rules have been introduced with the promise of standardising disclosure on key environmental issues. This should prevent greenwashing and deliver better environmental outcomes, but is this happening in practice?

Podcasts

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