Our philosophy and process
- The strategy is conviction based, with no regional or sector constraints. Portfolios tend to hold stocks of cash-generative companies with highly attractive dividend yields.
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are integrated throughout the research process and via proprietary quality reviews, to ensure that any material issues are captured.
State intervention
Authorities have engaged in ever-greater policy intervention and regulation to shore up economic growth. We believe ‘state intervention’ has increased misallocation of capital, caused volatility in markets and inflated asset prices – and we think that calls for a stock-specific approach.
Smart revolution
Machines and networks are becoming more intelligent. This is disrupting the labour market, as machines increasingly replace humans in the workplace. ‘Smart revolution’ considers the implications commercially, socially and politically.
Net effects
The world has made the transition from connecting places to connecting people to connecting devices. The rapid rise in the ‘internet of things’ is transforming lifestyles and business. This creates winners and losers – our ‘net effects’ theme seeks to identify them.
Financialisation
Cheap money has caused rapid growth in a sector already supported by deregulation. ‘Financialisation’ investigates the implications of finance dominating economic activity, instead of serving it.
Investment team
Our Global Equity Income strategy is managed by an experienced team. Our global sector analysts and investment managers are located on a single floor in London, which helps to ensure that the investment process is flexible and opportunistic. Guided by our global investment themes, the team works together to identify opportunities and risks through research and debate.
- 19
- years’ average investment experience
- 15
- years’ average time at Newton
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Ilga Haubelt
Head of Equity Income
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Robert Hay
Portfolio manager, global equity income
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Paul Flood
Portfolio manager, global equity income
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Jon Bell
Portfolio manager, global equity income
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Zoe Kan
Portfolio manager, emerging and Asian equity income
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Tim Lucas
Portfolio manager, equity income team
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Ami Shah
Portfolio manager, equity income team
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Nick Pope
Junior portfolio manager
Strategy profile
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Objective
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To generate distributions over an annual period together with long-term capital growth from investing predominantly in global securities.
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Yield discipline
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Every new holding in a global equity income portfolio typically has a prospective yield 25% greater than the index at the point of purchase. Any holding whose prospective yield falls below the comparative index yield will trigger our sale discipline process.*
*In order to prevent the portfolio from being unable to buy or being a forced seller of securities that have suspended their dividend purely owing to the Covid-19 situation, a new additional buy and sell discipline basket has been created specifically for such securities, which temporarily overrides the strategy’s security-level yield-based disciplines. Securities falling into this basket may be purchased or continue to be held providing there is a reasonable expectation that any dividends will be reinstated at a level consistent with the strategy’s yield criteria. The rationale for each affected security will be reviewed at least every six months. -
Literature
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Application form
Key Investor Information Document (KIID)
Prospectus
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.