Curt Custard

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.

Provides investment advice

UBS-UK is an active, long-term manager which utilizes integrated investment platforms and a range of investment strategies. The firm employs global tactical asset allocation to take advantage of valuation anomalies through derivatives, both in markets and in currencies. Their investment approach is team-oriented and based on fundamental and proprietary quantitative research generated in-house on a global basis. They aim for a local sector-neutral portfolio selection, which is then used to create global portfolios. UBS-UK invests in equity, fixed-income, hedge funds, liquidity and cash, multi-asset, real assets/PE, and passive/ETFs.

SIM is an active investment manager that utilizes a contrarian investment approach supported by fundamental, in-house research, regular company visits and their group's global network. Research is shared worldwide within the parent group and is organized in specialist teams, with local specialists contributing their expertise to global sector teams. The firm also utilizes their proprietary software, the Global Research Investment Database, to integrate and distribute in-house and external research, assisting investment managers in portfolio construction. They manage risk through another proprietary tool called Portfolio Risk Investment Strategy Manager (PRISM).