Founder’s

Managed by the firm’s founder (who is no longer full-time) and not actively marketed, this strategy is deep value, low turnover, concentrated and contrarian.
Fund Name: Overstone World All Cap Equity Fund

Investment objective

The Fund will attempt to achieve over the long term a total return in excess of that of the MSCI ACWI Index (with net dividends reinvested) through investment in a concentrated portfolio of equity securities. The approach is classic contrarian value, based on bottom-up fundamental research of individual companies.

Fund particulars

Launch date01 January 2025
DomicileIreland
StructureUCITS
Base currencyUSD
DealingDaily
Min. investment£10,000
BenchmarkMSCI All Countries World
Fund sizeUS$15.9m

Share class details

* AMC - Annual management charge
** OCF - Ongoing Charges Figure

Portfolio manager

Richard Oldfield
Richard Oldfield
Portfolio manager

Richard Oldfield

Chair | Partner

Richard Oldfield founded Oldfield Partners LLP in 2005, after 9 years as chief executive of a family investment office. Before this, he was director of Mercury Asset Management plc, which he joined in 1977. He was Chairman of the Oxford University investment committee and the first chairman of Oxford University Endowment Management Ltd from 2007-2014.

He is now chairman of Shepherd Neame Ltd, and trustee of a number of charities. The second edition of his book “Simple But Not Easy”, a “slightly autobiographical and heavily biased” book about investing, was published by Harriman House in December 2021.

Richard Oldfield

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Fund Commentary Archive
2025

Fund performance (USD, %)

1 monthYTD1 year3 years5 yearsLaunch*
I USD+2.8+29.1---+29.1
MSCI ACWI+3.6+18.4---+18.4
Annual performance202420232022
I USD---
MSCI ACWI---

Performance is calculated net of all fees and expenses and on a total return basis, inclusive of all distributions to unit holders. Charges and expenses are deducted from Capital. *Reflects the period from when Richard Oldfield became portfolio manager of the strategy, on 01 January 2025.

The value of all investments and the income from them can go down as well as up; this may be due, in part, to exchange rate fluctuations. Past performance is not a guide to future performance

All data as at 30 September 2025

Sector breakdown (%)

Industrials 29.3
Materials 15.3
Consumer Discretionary 15.3
Financial Services 12.6
Information Technology 10.2
Consumer Staples 3.7
Banks 3.2
Health Care 2.4
Energy 1.8
Cash 6.1

Country breakdown (%)

United Kingdom 27.4
Japan 18.3
Netherlands 10.6
Canada 10.2
South Korea 9.7
China/Hong Kong 7.0
Germany 4.6
United States 3.8
Philippines 2.2
Cash 6.1

Top 10 holdings (%)

Barrick Mining 6.2
ArcelorMittal 5.3
Barratt Redrow 5.3
Stellantis 5.2
Kyocera 5.1
Samsung Electronics 5.1
RIT 4.8
East Japan Railway 4.8
Kubota 4.7
Jardine Matheson 4.2

Fund characteristics

Fund Benchmark
P/E ratio (fwd) 9.5 20.9
P/B ratio (hist) 0.7 3.6
Gross div. yield (fwd) 2.6 1.7
Active share (%)* 99.2

The Fund will attempt to achieve over the long term a total return in excess of that of the MSCI ACWI Index (with net dividends reinvested) through investment in a concentrated portfolio of equity securities. The approach is classic contrarian value, based on bottom-up fundamental research of individual companies.