Edward Alexander Campbell Cottrell

CGAM aims to protect their clients’ capital by focusing on absolute return and inflation-linked sovereign bonds. Their investment approach emphasizes long-only asset allocation as a powerful tool that preserves capital and delivers superior investment performance over the long-term. The firm makes asset allocation decisions based on their view of macroeconomic and capital market risk and constructs portfolios which seek to mitigate those risks.

CCM is an active, value-oriented investment manager which follows a bottom-up investment process and adopts a pragmatic approach. They try to anticipate the evolution of a company's stock by analyzing their business life cycle, taking into account global economic and market factors. The firm seeks to meet biannually with the companies in their portfolio. The firm's managers concentrate on their area of expertise, namely UK and European securities, fixed-income, multi-manager and alternative asset classes. They rely on external managers for other areas. CCM meets regularly with the companies in their portfolio and makes investment decisions as a team. Funds are managed to follow relevant industry indexes.