The How

Our Investment Philosophy

Our responsibility is to assist clients allocate capital to preserve and create wealth.

We take a holistic approach to investing. Every investment vehicle used in the execution of strategies are subject to the overall total portfolio risk profile, liquidity needs, and investing horizon objectives of each individual client.

We spend regular time with each client learning, understanding and continually calibrating with them their personal risk profiles to investments at differing points in the financial and economic cycles.

We think of ourselves as a co-pilot with each client in their own investing journey. Assisting to aviate, navigate and communicate both the 30,000-foot macro-outlook and the 3-foot instruments panel (individual investments).

Aligned and seated along side clients, yet wholly independent, our role is not cramped by commissions, the value of funds-under-fees or career-risk embedded in short-term institutional performance surveys or employee wages/bonuses.

With transparent flexibility that sometimes means advising clients to preserve wealth by temporarily holding residual levels of cash, bill and bond instruments. This active rather than responsive approach to capital protection is, and has proven to be, a critical risk management tool over our professional investing history and very effective in the protection of compounded capital throughout cycles.

Our differentiation is the asymmetric focus on risks and absolute returns throughout a cycle. Our investing DNA is within our name (ROIC).

Our priority is to preserve capital at the portfolio level. Ignoring market index structures and index benchmarking distractions we first focus on the risk of losing money at differing points throughout the investing cycle.

Our clients are typically loss averse – where the penalty from a dollar lost is greater than the profit from a dollar gained.

Our style is long-term and fundamental. We advise on concentrated, clearly understood, and transparent investments within portfolios.

We spend considerable time filtering investment opportunities ensuring we don't get caught-up in market 'noise' that can destroy portfolio wealth. Holding the good, the bad AND the ugly is not successful diversification.

Our discipline critically includes patience. However, we have strong execution signals. A change in an investments key issue will see us immediately take action to assist preserve and protect portfolios.  As an investing co-pilot, warning lights flashing on an instrument panel are only useful if action is timely assessed and actively taken.

Our portfolio approach is generally concentrated by the number of securities but diversified by risk characteristics.

Our risk management motivation is to minimize downside outcomes and capture upside volatility at a price. Unlike salesmen who focus on selling stories and returns, we believe that as stewards of capital our aim is to actively manage risk. RISK MANAGEMENT is the process, RETURNS are the outcome.

Our alignment of interests is directly correlated with our clients’ interests. That is, absolute dollars of wealth, not short-term percentage movements.

Our core philosophy in all our activities is that investing is about making decisions about the future with a level of uncertainty today.

Our independence doesn’t mean we operate in a vacuum… but rather that we have great freedom from the influences of others.

We are strongly of the view that making point forecasts is futile. Rather we prefer to think in multiple scenario terms drawn from the breadth of the investor crowd…

We never confuse companies with share prices…

Our Process. Our Portfolios. Our Platform.