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We are an investment house that thrives on adding value for our investors,
rather than building volume for us: a philosophy that sets us apart from
the herd.
Other points of difference are that we determine the most advantageous amount of assets that can be effectively managed in each of our funds, our investment managers are empowered to make, and are accountable for, their own decisions and our rewards — in the form of performance-related fees — are linked directly to how well we manage our clients’ assets.
JOHCM is a truly entrepreneurial investment house where fund managers have all the conditions they need to outperform and where our clients’ best interests are always to the fore.
Nichola Pease
Chief Executive
J O Hambro Capital Management
An entrepreneurial culture where individuality thrives
The free-thinking and innovative environment that exists at JOHCM attracts
fund managers who have great confidence in their stock-picking skills.
These are people who have worked for major investment firms where they
were bound to a corporate process, or restricted to core stock lists
and set asset allocations. Life isn’t like that at JOHCM. Our managers
are free to steer their funds - within agreed risk criteria - where
they choose. Nor are they required to report to a Chief Investment
Officer or investment committees – we have neither. Instead we expect
people to go their own way and to deploy their proven and individual
talents to their full extent and all for the benefit of our investors.
Whenever we decide to open a new fund, we will only do so once we have found the right manager for that asset class. We look for seasoned and dynamic managers who have a track record of success and are completely performance-driven. What attracts talented managers to JOHCM is an environment where there are no distractions from the task in hand and managers have all they need to deliver and sustain outperformance. Finding the right manager for a new fund sometimes entails a long wait, but we have always been willing to bide our time for the right person.
Limiting the size of each fund’s assets helps managers to deliver
and sustain outperformance
The definition of success for many investment houses is to attract the
largest possible amount of investment to their funds – the bigger the
fund, the more they earn in annual management charges. That approach
may work for others, but it’s not for us. Every time we launch a fund
– going back to our first OEIC in 2001 - we predetermine, in conjunction
with the fund manager, the maximum amount of money that he or she is
prepared to run in that fund. Once any fund reaches its predetermined
limit, it is closed to new investors, giving the manager the conditions
in which they can deliver and sustain outperformance and stay focused
on the interests of the fund’s investors.