Richard Board

RIM’s investment processes include asset allocation and investment selection. Their stock selection process focuses on the characteristics of each asset class: fixed interest stocks and bonds, equities, and Collective Investment Vehicles (CIVs), including property CIVs.

Hermes Equities is an active, long-term manager which specializes in high-alpha, unconstrained European equity portfolios. They aim to build portfolios of high-conviction, original ideas that will outperform the benchmark without excessive volatility. The firm selects stocks based on a bottom-up approach where they can identify sustained structural change in businesses yet to be recognized by the market. They conduct in-house research, focusing on the key drivers of a business model including capital and product cycles, cash flow, relative value, buyer and supplier power, barriers to entry and secular growth trends.