Strategy highlights

  • Enables investors to gain targeted exposure to long-term opportunities arising across food and agriculture-related industries worldwide, from farm to table and the infrastructure/adjacencies that support the theme
  • Long-term thematic research identifies drivers of change, providing a framework for idea generation
  • Investing in companies that develop innovative solutions, enabling more efficient operations
  • Stock selection driven by bottom-up proprietary research which is underpinned by our multidimensional approach

Strategy profile

Objective

The strategy aims to achieve long-term capital growth while promoting environmental and social characteristics by investing globally in companies engaged in the food supply chain.

Performance benchmark

MSCI AC World NDR*

Strategy inception

January 2021

* The MSCI AC World NDR performance benchmark is used as a comparator for this strategy. The strategy does not aim to replicate either the composition or the performance of the performance benchmark.

Investment team

The strategy is managed by an experienced team with a wide range of backgrounds. In-house research analysts are at the core of our investment process, and our multidimensional research capabilities help to promote better-informed investment decisions.

Karen Miki Behr
Karen Miki Behr

Portfolio manager

Paul Byrne
Paul Byrne

Quantitative analyst and portfolio manager, quantitative equity team

Your capital may be at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Key investment risks

  • Objective/performance risk: There is no guarantee that the strategy will achieve its objectives.
  • Currency risk: This strategy invests in international markets which means it is exposed to changes in currency rates which could affect the value of the strategy.
  • Emerging markets risk: Emerging Markets have additional risks due to less-developed market practices.
  • Concentration risk: A fall in the value of a single investment may have a significant impact on the value of the strategy because it typically invests in a limited number of investments.
  • Counterparty risk: The insolvency of any institutions providing services such as custody of assets or acting as a counterparty to derivatives or other contractual arrangements, may expose the strategy to financial loss.