Insights

Here you can find the latest insights from our investment team.

Simple but not easy

Simple But Not Easy by Richard Oldfield

A slightly autobiographical and heavily biased book about investing.

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The Company Valuation Playbook

The Company Valuation Playbook by Charles Sunnucks

The Playbook introduces you to the industry-standard tools used by professionals globally to value companies and their shares.

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Tariffs: A stock picker’s view

Portfolio manager Sam Ziff on how we’re approaching one of the most significant shocks to global equity markets in recent years.

Winds of change

After years of stasis, Europe could be on the cusp of real change. Portfolio Manager Christoph Ohm thinks it deserves a second look.

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Thoughts from Richard Oldfield

Richard Oldfield introduces the key themes to our OP Insights this quarter, including the US stock market effortlessly climbing a yellow brick road, with the reminder that changes in fortune can be sharp and the importance of a well-positioned portfolio.

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The Energy Transition: A Work in Progress

Energy transitions have been an important feature of human history, and today the world is undertaking another major energy transition: the shift from carbon intense fossil fuels to renewable and low-carbon energy sources.

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Why Valuations Are Key to Success

Plenty has been written on the decoupling between the headline valuations in the US and Europe; in this latest OP Insights, Portfolio Manager Christoph Ohm quantitatively unpacks what has driven this divergence, and what current conditions have historically meant for the road ahead.

OP Insights – EM News in Focus

In our most recent Insight Piece, EM Portfolio Manager Charles Sunnucks dusts off the 2016 EM-Trump Playbook, illustrates the valuation decoupling between markets, and reviews the valuation extremes found at the single stock level.

OP Insights – EM News in Focus

OP’s EM Portfolio Manager Charles Sunnucks looks at the Korean holding companies, the Chaebols. Historically as ‘dull as a butter knife’, efforts are now underway to put pressure on these gratuitously convoluted corporations to better realise shareholder value.

OP Insights – EM News in Focus

EM Portfolio Manager Charles Sunnucks discusses the recent South African election and explores the wider context for the country’s capital markets.

OP Insights – EM News in Focus

Russian Equity Markets have globally been both a top performer and significant detractor over recent history. EM Portfolio Manager Charles Sunnucks takes a look into the post election landscape and unpacks why this is.