Ales Koutny

VAML aims to be the highest value provider of investment products and services to UK investors by utilizing a combination of applied theory and experience and by pursuing an investment philosophy which puts their clients first. The firm offers a range of index funds, funds-of-index funds and exchange-traded funds. Their index funds aim to deliver the returns of selected well-known indexes through broadly diversified portfolios. They implement portfolios based on full replication techniques where possible as this is the 'purest' form of indexing and results in lower tracking error.

JHI UK is an active, value-oriented manager which has core capabilities in global equities, European equities, global fixed-income, multi-asset and alternative investments. They focus on absolute returns, investing globally based on rigorous fundamental research and risk management. The firm believes that top-down economic factors are key drivers of markets and the performance of sectors within markets. Economic expectations are a key input to all equity, bond and currency return forecasts which determine their asset allocation policy.