What it takes to beat passive index investing with Simon Hallett, Co-CIO of top growth firm Harding Loevner.
WEALTHTRACK Episode #1442; Originally Broadcast on April 06, 2018
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SIMON HALLETT
- Co-Chief Investment Officer,
- Harding Loevner
Talk to any active money manager and they will tell you their biggest competitive threat is the trend to passive investing. The nine-year bull market has made index investing profitable and seemingly risk-free. A record $684.6 billion dollars flowed into U.S. mutual funds and ETFs in 2017 with $692 billion going to passive funds and nearly $7 billion leaving actively managed ones.
But there’s another competitive threat to active managers that is less talked about. It’s called the “paradox of skill”. Financial thought leader and former WEALTHTRACK guest, Michael Mauboussin wrote about it in his fascinating book, Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich
How does an active manager maintain an edge over passive investing and more skilled competitors? That’s what we will discuss with this week’s guest. He is Simon Hallett, Co-Chief Investment Officer of Harding Loevner, a global money manager which has concentrated on buying high-quality growth companies since its inception in 1989. Hallett, who joined the firm in 1991 as a portfolio manager, gave up those duties when he assumed the CIO role in 2012. He is now sharing the title.
With $65 billion in assets under management, the firm’s core business is institutional and 25% of its clients are overseas. It also runs several mutual funds includingGlobal Equity, Emerging Markets, and International Equity. All three have earned Morningstar’s Silver Medalist analyst rating.
As usual, this week’s program is available to ourPREMIUM subscribers immediately. In our exclusiveEXTRA feature, Hallett will discuss his investment in a professional, English soccer team, Plymouth Argyle.
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Consuelo
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NEGLECTED ASSET CLASS
- Buy international small-cap companies
- Neglected by Wall Street analysts
- Benefitting from e-commerce globally
Linde AG ADR (LNEGY)
AIA Group Ltd (Hong Kong Stock Exchange)
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INVESTMENT FROM THE HEART
Harding Loevner’s Simon Hallett is maniacal about the firm’s rigorous, disciplined and consistent approach to stock analysis in deciding which companies to invest in for the long term. However when it came to making a substantial personal investment in Plymouth Argyle, a professional English soccer team those rules did not apply.
