We bring our traditional family office investment approach to the wider investment community. We want to generate sensible investment returns with carefully controlled risk, never forgetting the imperative of capital preservation.
Arthur Edward Guinness 4th Earl of Iveagh Chairman, Iveagh Ltd
A C H I E V I N G L O N G -T E R M F I N A N C I A L S U C C E S S We are wholly dedicated to the
Iveagh is the privately owned investment
protection and growth of our
management business that evolved from
clients’ wealth for current and future generations.
the family office of Arthur Edward Guinness, Earl of Iveagh, and other members of the Guinness family. Through our regulated investment funds, retail investors can access the same investment expertise that we have used to managed the Guinness family money for generations.
U N D E R S TA N D I N G I N V E S T O R N E E D S IN CHAN GIN G M AR K E T CO N DITIO NS Iveagh provides investment management
Our primary objective is to preserve and
services designed to meet clients’ differing
enhance our clients’ wealth. We seek to
needs, by offering a range of investment
manage risk and provide protection and growth
funds seeking to achieve capital growth
in both good and bad market conditions.
with controlled volatility.
Our proven, disciplined and methodical investment process is based on our proprietary macro-economic models, together with our superior market intelligence, market valuations and technical analysis, enabling us to provide investors with a range of solutions to meet their needs.
Edward Cecil Guinness 1st Earl of Iveagh 1847–1927
N I N E G E N E R AT I O N S O F T H E G U I N N E S S FA M I Ly In 1886 the Earl of Iveagh established one of
Today Iveagh offers investors seeking the
the world’s first family offices to protect the
protection and growth of their assets this
fortune which came from the stock exchange listing of Arthur Guinness & Son Ltd.
unique combination of investment experience and investment expertise enabling future generations to enjoy the wealth.
P R E S E R V I N G A N D B U I L D I N G C A P I TA L We aim to be open and transparent with all our investors, treating them like members of our extended family.
We want our clients to understand what we stand for and stay with us for the long haul. Communication is important. So is having the confidence to trust us to take the appropriate level of risk at the right time so that we can preserve and build your capital.
THE INVESTMENT TEAM CHRIS WYLLIE Chief Investment Officer Chris has nearly 25 years of experience in finance, most of it gained in senior positions in the fund management industry. He started in banking with Brown Shipley before moving to Foreign & Colonial as a fund manager looking after both institutional and retail funds. In 1997, he joined Schroder Investment Management, and became a director of the UK team, managing funds totaling £2.1bn. He was also head of the UK Equity Strategy team. He took a similar role at Merrill Lynch Investment Management before entering wealth management via JP Morgan Private Bank. Chris joined Iveagh as the family office’s Chief Investment Officer in 2006. He holds an MA (Hons) in History from Cambridge University and is an associate of the Society of Investment Professionals.
William Beverley Head of Macroeconomic Research William has over 13 years’ investment experience in blue chip investment banks, primarily in asset management. As a quantitative analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Management he developed investment signals, portfolio analytics and asset allocation models for wealth management, managing a team of four analysts. At Barclays Capital he was portfolio manager and senior investment strategist in a team managing $2.5 billion in multi asset and quantitative strategies, and UCITS funds. William holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School, and MAs in Philosophy from both the University of Cambridge and the University of Southern California, receiving the Dean’s Fellowship for Academic Excellence from the latter.
Jonathan Bull Assistant Portfolio Manager Jon spent three years working for Vicis Capital LLC, a US hedge fund, where created and maintained a middle office solution for London and Hong Kong. He has extensive knowledge of a full range of products including options, CFDs, equities, convertible bonds, corporate bonds and private placements. Prior to this, Jon worked for a multi-strategy hedge fund at ORN Capital LLC and also held roles at Bailey Coates Asset Management and Cofunds. Jon has a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from University of the West of England, Bristol.
Minyi Soon Analyst Prior to joining Iveagh, Minyi worked as an analyst at a London based family office - Acacia Management LLP. She has 7 yrs of finance experience – most of it gained in the Emerging Market space. Prior to Acacia, she was an Associate with Eureka Capital responsible for research and capital raising for Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa & Asia Pacific funds. She has also worked on the inaugural North American Hedge Fund database while working for Eureka. Minyi holds a BA in Economics from National University of Singapore.
THE INVESTMENT PROCESS Our investment management team have a huge wealth of investment experience. As part of our rigorous investment process we capitalise on our investment team’s combined industry experience and relationships with fund managers to enable us to make highly informed investment decisions.
PH I LOS O PH Y
Our primary objective is to preserve and enhance our clients’ wealth. We seek to manage risk and provide protection and growth in both good and bad market conditions.
PROCESS
Our investment process is designed to give clear signals of when decisive action needs to be taken, with a particular emphasis on capital preservation. We start with our proprietary macroeconomic leading indicators which give signals on the direction of key economic drivers, particularly growth and inflation. We then evaluate the potential market impact through three additional indicator sets: • Market Intelligence (liquidity and fund flows) • Valuation • Technical Analysis This allows our investment team to sift through the mountain of available information in an objective and methodical way, promoting consistent and clear-sighted decision-making. The output of the process is expressed as a traffic light system, each light relating to one of the four key indicators.
THE GUINNESS FAMILY In 1759 Arthur Guinness arrived in Dublin from Rural County Kildare and purchased a 900 year lease on the St James Gate brewery. This was the cornerstone of the family’s brewing business. In 1886, Arthur’s great great grandson, Edward Cecil Guinness, the 1st Earl of Iveagh established one of the world’s first family offices to protect the fortune which came from the flotation of the family brewing business.
Arthur Guinness 1725–1803
N ine g enerations o f W E A LT H P R E S E R VAT I O N AND GROW TH
Successive generations of the Guinness family have invented structures to preserve and growth their wealth. The outstanding results form a definitive wealth management case study. In 2006 the first Earl’s great grandson, Arthur Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh and the current head of the family, continued the tradition of pioneering wealth preservation when he and other members of the Guinness family and a team of experts created Iveagh.
THE IVEAGH BOARD Lord Iveagh Chairman FIAgrM, DL As Chairman, Lord Iveagh oversees all development of the Guinness family office and asset management businesses. He was also deputy chairman of Iveagh Trustees, the fore runner to the current investment management business, which managed investments, private companies, professional taxation and trust management departments. He is also chairman and custodian of Elveden Farms, the 22,500 acre family Suffolk estate, where he has assembled and developed a first class management team. Lord Iveagh is actively involved in numerous business, social, charitable and voluntary organisations, with particular interest in agricultural, conservation and countryside issues.
honourable Rory Guinness Director Rory Guinness is a non-executive Director of Iveagh Ltd. As well as sitting on the boards of various family companies, he is also on the Governing Body of the Lister Institute for Preventative Medicine, the board of the Iveagh Trust and St Patrick’s Cathedral (Dublin). He is the author of The World of Guinness, and regularly gives tours around the Guinness Storehouse. He acts as a consultant to various farming operations in the UK and Ireland. Previously he worked for Lazard Asset Management, as well as sitting on the investment committee of Iveagh Trustees Ltd.
Honourable Henry Channon Director Henry Channon has been a non-executive Director of Iveagh Ltd since it was first formed in 2006. Prior to this he served on the Board of Iveagh Trustees, the fore runner of the current investment business, from 1997 to 2005 to look after the family interests. He is also a trustee of the Guinness Trust and the Henry Moore foundation. Henry previously served the European Commission from 1992 to 1994 after which he worked at Dorling Kindersley Publishers until 1997. He attended Oxford University, where he received a Classics degree.
Richard Ford Chief Executive Officer Richard has over 20 years experience in the industry and began his career at Global Asset Management in London, where he managed the governance, legal and compliance functions. He then moved to Fidelity International as a member of the Global Management Committee and headed up their corporate headquarters in Bermuda. He returned to the UK in 2002 where he was a founding partner of ORN capital LLP, a multi product alternative investment and hedge fund group which was sold to Morley Investments in 2006. Richard was more latterly managing partner of Spencer House Capital Management LLP, the investment boutique launched by Jacob Rothschild and CEO of WH Ireland plc, the corporate and private stock broking group. Richard gained an Economics degree from the London School of Economics before qualifying as a barrister at the English Bar, where he specialised in chancery and commercial work.
CHRIS WYLLIE Chief Investment Officer Chris has nearly 25 years of experience in finance, most of it gained in senior positions in the fund management industry. He started in banking with Brown Shipley before moving to Foreign & Colonial as a fund manager looking after both institutional and retail funds. In 1997, he joined Schroder Investment Management, and became a director of the UK team, managing funds totaling £2.1bn. He was also head of the UK Equity Strategy team. He took a similar role at Merrill Lynch Investment Management before entering wealth management via JP Morgan Private Bank. Chris joined Iveagh as the family office’s Chief Investment Officer in 2006. He holds an MA (Hons) in History from Cambridge University and is an associate of the Society of Investment Professionals.
Gerry Aherne Director Gerry Aherne is a highly respected and experienced professional investor in both the retail and institutional financial services markets. A former fund manager himself, he advises the Boards of many well-known firms and is the chairman of Cenkos Securities plc. He is also currently nonexecutive chairman of Electric & General Investment Fund and is a non-executive director of Mecom Group plc. In addition, he has served as a non-executive director of Henderson Group plc until 2012, an executive director of Schroder Investment Management Limited until 2002, an executive director of Majedie Investments plc and chief executive and founder of Javelin Capital LLP.
Martin Harrison Director Martin Harrison is a senior sales and marketing executive who joins the board of Iveagh following a successful career spanning more than 40 years in the mutual funds industry. Most recently, he was senior director, mutual funds, at GAM, following 13 years at the company as head of distribution for the UK, South Africa and the offshore regions. Prior to joining GAM, Martin was head of sales and marketing at GT Management and before that held a similar post at Prolific Unit Trust Managers.
Iveagh Core Portfolios The Iveagh core portfolios are a range of six funds aimed at investors with different risk and return profiles. The funds invest in a diversified range of asset classes across global markets and regions according to changing financial and economic conditions. So, whether you are a cautious investor, more adventurous or somewhere in between, Iveagh manages your investment portfolio to meet your financial goals and objectives. Your financial adviser will help you to determine your risk profile and identify which fund best suit your needs. The core portfolios benefit from Iveagh’s dynamic risk management which aims to emphasise capital preservation when the investment process identifies a significant risk of major market falls. This is achieved by temporarily reducing the risk profile by up to three risk levels. Importantly the portfolio risk level can never rise above the standard level. This approach aims to position the portfolios appropriately to capture growth when the markets are rising and preserve wealth when they are falling.
F U N D FA C T S Fund type
UCITS III
Annual Management Charge
1.75%
Number of funds
six
Currency
Sterling, US Dollar, Euro
Launch date
1 February 2011
Domicile
Dublin
T ypical asset allocation Iveagh Cautious Portfolio 4.0% Cash and Short Dated Bonds 26.0% Government Bonds 10.5% Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 30.0% Public Equity 3.5% Absolute Return 0.5% Private Equity 4.0% Gold and Precious Metals 12.5% Property 1.5% Alternative Investments 1.0% Commodities 6.5% Infrastructure
Iveagh Moderate Portfolio 1.5% 15.0% 16.5%
Cash and Short Dated Bonds Government Bonds Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 35.0% Public Equity 5.0% Absolute Return 1.5% Private Equity 5.0% Gold and Precious Metals 10.5% Property 2.5% Alternative Investments 2.0% Commodities 5.5% Infrastructure
Iveagh Balanced Portfolio 2.0% 9.5% 16.5%
Cash and Short Dated Bonds Government Bonds Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 43.5% Public Equity 3.0% Absolute Return 3.5% Private Equity 5.0% Gold and Precious Metals 7.5% Property 3.5% Alternative Investments 3.0% Commodities 3.0% Infrastructure
Iveagh Adventurous Portfolio 2.0% 7.5% 9.0%
Cash and Short Dated Bonds Government Bonds Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 60.0% Public Equity 1.0% Absolute Return 5.0% Private Equity 4.0% Gold and Precious Metals 1.5% Property 5.0% Alternative Investments 3.5% Commodities 1.5% Infrastructure
Iveagh Growth Portfolio 2.0% 8.0% 12.0%
Cash and Short Dated Bonds Government Bonds Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 52.0% Public Equity 2.0% Absolute Return 4.5% Private Equity 5.0% Gold and Precious Metals 4.5% Property 4.5% Alternative Investments 3.0% Commodities 2.5% Infrastructure
Iveagh Income Portfolio 1.0% 7.5% 15.5%
Cash and Short Dated Bonds Government Bonds Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 52.0% Public Equity 0.0% Absolute Return 4.5% Private Equity 3.0% Gold and Precious Metals 5.0% Property 4.5% Alternative Investments 2.0% Commodities 5.0% Infrastructure
I M P O R TANT I N F O R M AT I O N This document is issued by Iveagh Ltd (Iveagh) a company authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority to undertake investment business. The Iveagh Wealth Fund and Core Portfolio Funds (“the Funds“) qualify as undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and have obtained recognition under the European Communities Directive for marketing in certain member states in the European Economic Area, including the United Kingdom. The value of investments may fall as well as rise and you may not get back your original investment. Past performance should not be viewed as a guide to future performance. This document should not be construed as investment advice or an offer to invest in the Fund. Please seek independent financial advice.
The Iveagh Wealth Fund The fund aims to generate attractive investment returns over the long term with the objective of controlling risk. Iveagh’s proactive approach to asset allocation seeks to harness returns from rising markets. When the investment process identifies a significant risk of major market falls capital preservation is emphasised using dynamic risk management. The fund invests across a well diversified range of asset classes, using both active and passive investments, typically Exchange Traded Funds, which provide both diversification and liquidity at minimum cost. The fund is suitable as a stand-alone portfolio, or as the core to an integrated investment strategy.
F U N D FA C T S Fund type
UCITS III
Launch date
1 September 2008
Annual Management Charge
1.5%
Currency Domicile
Sterling, US Dollar & Euro Dublin
T ypical asset allocation
2.0% Cash and Short Dated Bonds 9.5% Government Bonds 16.5% Corporate & Emerging Market Bonds 43.5% Public Equity 3.0% Absolute Return 3.5% Private Equity
5.0% Gold and Precious Metals 7.5% Property 3.5% Alternative Investments 3.0% Commodities 3.0% Infrastructure
I M P O R TANT I N F O R M AT I O N This document is issued by Iveagh Ltd (Iveagh) a company authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority to undertake investment business. The Iveagh Wealth Fund and Core Portfolio Funds (“the Funds“) qualify as undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and have obtained recognition under the European Communities Directive for marketing in certain member states in the European Economic Area, including the United Kingdom. The value of investments may fall as well as rise and you may not get back your original investment. Past performance should not be viewed as a guide to future performance. This document should not be construed as investment advice or an offer to invest in the Fund. Please seek independent financial advice.