Global Alpha Fund - River and Mercantile

ES R&M Global Alpha Fund

The fund invests in companies around the world which we believe are well positioned to provide long-term growth and attractive returns

Why Global Alpha?

This fund enables investors to access a portfolio that is broadly diversified across sector, capitalisation tier and region. The managers select stocks which they believe will outperform from the growth, quality, recovery and asset-backed investment categories.

Investment process

The portfolio manager invests according to River and Mercantile's long established PVT philosophy, where stocks are evaluated by a combination of their potential to create value, their valuation and the timing of buying into a position.

Sophisticated quantitative analysis and intelligent screening finds only the best opportunities for the manager and investment team to debate and validate by applying rigorous fundamental research.

About the fund managers

Hugh Sergeant
Head of Value and Recovery Strategies, PVT Equities

Hugh graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Economics. He joined Gartmore in 1987 as a UK equities graduate trainee and moved to Phillips & Drew in 1990, managing UK equities throughout his 12 years there. He became Head of Smaller Companies in 1997, establishing a new team and launching the UBS Smaller Companies Fund. In March 2000 Hugh was promoted to Head of UK Equities at UBS Global Asset Management and Chairman of the UK Equities Committee. He joined Société Générale Asset Management in 2002 as Head of UK Equities, manager of the Growth strategy and co-manager of the Special Opportunities Fund.

Hugh was one of the founding members of R&M Asset Management in 2006. Hugh is Head of Value and Recovery strategies within the PVT Equities team and manages the Alpha and Recovery strategies.

William Lough
Portfolio Manager, PVT Equities

William graduated from the University of Oxford with a First-Class Honours Degree in Modern History, before joining R&M Asset Management an equity analyst in 2009. In 2013 he was promoted to Director of Research and in 2014 became alternate Portfolio Manager on Hugh Sergeant’s Recovery and High Alpha strategies.

In addition to co-managing the Global Alpha strategy, William is lead Portfolio Manager on the Global Sustainable Opportunities strategy and also co-manager of the UK Dynamic Equity strategy.