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Charities

Our offering to Charities is built upon our core investment management principles of maintaining low portfolio risk and delivering stable and consistent returns within pre-agreed parameters.  This is an important planning feature for Trustees with rigid annual income requirements and avoids unhelpful, wide fluctuations in annual portfolio returns.

Ethics

Investment considerations are unique to each charity and the bespoke investment mandate agreed with the trustees reflects this, whilst also complying with the Charity's Trust Deed.  Many trustees will not permit their funds to be invested in companies or funds that do not conform to certain criteria.  For example medical charities often prohibit investment in tobacco companies.  We subscribe to the SAR register that scores companies on ethical grounds and work with our clients to establish a prohibited investment list.  The compilation of this list is bespoke to the individual board of trustees and allows us to reflect the personal preferences for each client in what is often a subjective area.  The mandate is therefore attuned to the charity's requirements and not only encompasses conditions relating to what company shares we may invest in but also a commitment to maintain a fee structure that is completely transparent and low cost.

Portfolio Construction and Investment strategy

Trustees naturally want to obtain and maintain the highest levels of efficiency from their investment portfolios.  This means extracting the highest amount of return commensurate with the maximum levels of acceptable risk while minimising the effect of management fees.

Our experienced investment management team provide a high level of technical skill and specialist knowledge necessary to blend the full range of asset classes and strategies available to investment professionals.

An over reliance on interest bearing investments such as Government Bonds to produce income streams can result in lower medium to longer investment growth.  It is always a fine line to balance short term income requirements against the growth in capital values necessary to minimise the effects of future inflation, but this is where value can be added by implementing a multi-asset class approach.

Modern investment management techniques can be used in conjunction with traditional investment classes, to create low risk investment portfolios designed to deliver specific income and growth targets, avoiding the risks of specific high yielding assets.

Why invest with us?

• Direct access to your fund manager
• We take the time to carefully create a bespoke investment policy document for the Charity - we do not adopt a 'one size' fits all approach.
• Exposure to investment classes outside the traditional bond/equity model.
• Low and transparent fee structure.
• Detailed Trustee reports and Valuations.
• We encourage regular communication and face to face meetings to ensure ongoing suitability of the investment policy in light of market conditions and changes in trustee requirements.

Fee Structure

Initial consultancy and portfolio report                            Zero

Initial set up fee                                                              Zero

Brokerage fee                                                                  Inclusive

Settlement fees                                                               Inclusive

Annual Management fee                                                  0.4% first £5million

                                                                                        0.3% £5m plus