Public Equity

Building durable portfolios to generate attractive absolute and relative returns over time 

Partnering with you to help preserve and grow your capital over the long term

We are committed to generating attractive risk-adjusted returns over full economic cycles in alignment with your goals. As active managers, we build concentrated portfolios with high active shares and low turnover, and have a long-term ownership mentality.

Our approach is founded on four key insights:

  • Market prices can materially diverge from underlying business value, providing us with significant opportunities.
  • Owning exceptionally high-quality, durable, growing businesses allows for disciplined decision-making in the face of economic challenges.
  • Equity investing is business ownership, in our view, reflecting the compounding of underlying business value over long periods of time.
  • We view risk as the permanent loss of capital and seek to invest in companies with both the fundamentals to manage downside risk, and that offer a margin of safety in terms of valuation.1

We are guided by a set of core principles consistently and rigorously applied across all equity strategies:

  • Active management: We take a bottom-up, fundamentally driven, value-oriented approach to equity selection.
  • Durability: We focus on cash-generative businesses that are leading providers of essential products and services, can prosper in varying economic conditions, and are positioned to grow shareholder value over time.
  • High conviction: We achieve reasonable diversification while ensuring meaningful concentration in our highest-conviction ideas.
  • Long-term perspective: We invest in businesses that we expect to be materially stronger and more valuable five years from now.
  • Discipline and patience: We let our criteria drive our investment process and do not compromise on quality, which we believe enables us to achieve our shared investment and business objectives.

1. Identify the opportunity set: Narrow the broad universe to the most qualified companies that meet our demanding set of qualitative and quantitative investment criteria.

 

2. Conduct deep fundamental research: Analyze the competitive advantages, industry structure, management excellence, ESG risks/opportunities, and financial profile of targeted businesses.

 

3. Invest with patience and discipline: Wait for purchase opportunities at attractive discounts to our intrinsic value estimates.

How it’s done matters.

  • Our deep fundamental and actionable research is not predicated on making macroeconomic projections.
  • Extensive industry and company due diligence form the foundation of our investment process.
  • We foster independent thinking and innovate every day for the long term.
  • We deliver excellence with humility and act with unwavering integrity.

Equity portfolio attributes

We take a bottom-up approach and emphasize building concentrated portfolios of high-quality businesses, so that you and your portfolio are positioned for long-term success. Our equity portfolio attributes include:

  • Durable and resilient businesses
  • High-quality companies in concentrated, highly differentiated portfolios
  • Long-term ownership perspective
  • Benchmark aware
  • Focus on generating attractive absolute and relative returns over full market cycles

Public Equity Strategies

How to Invest

Our investment strategies can be accessed through separately managed accounts (SMAs), mutual funds, UCITS funds, and private funds. To learn more please contact a member of our institutional relationship management team

Visit the BBH Funds website and the BBH Luxembourg Funds website for more information about our public fund offerings.

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BBH U.S. Large Cap Equity – Core Select is formerly U.S. Large Cap Equity.

1 A margin of safety exists when we believe there is a significant discount to intrinsic value at the time of the purchase. Intrinsic value is an estimate of the present value of the cash that a business can generate over its remaining life. 

This communication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell any particular security or to adopt any specific investment strategy. The information herein has not been based on a consideration of any individual investor’s circumstances and is not investment advice, nor should it be construed in any way as tax, accounting, legal or regulatory advice. Any views and opinions are subject to change at any time.

This material does not constitute an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where or to any person to whom it would be unauthorized or unlawful to do so.

Strategies are shown without regard to whether they are offered as separately managed account mandates or through pooled vehicles. Any discussion of or reference to any given strategy herein should not be taken as a recommendation or solicitation of any pooled vehicle which has an investment objective featuring or similar to such strategy.

The Public Equity strategies may assume large positions in a small number of issuers which can increase the potential for greater price fluctuation.

There is no assurance the strategies will achieve their investment objective or that the strategies will work under all market conditions. Each investor should evaluate their ability to invest for the long-term, especially during periods of downturn in the market.

The value of the portfolios can be affected by changes in interest rates, general market conditions and other political, social and economic developments.

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