Christopher Allen

BIL is an active manager which performs in-house fundamental and technical research, supplemented by external research, to construct portfolios. They primarily invest in growth and value stocks of small-, mid- and large-cap companies employing a thematic investment approach. The firm manages all non-US equity portfolios from Edinburgh, communicating regularly with the US equity and fixed-income management teams to capitalize on global themes, including macroeconomic interest rate trends and information on multinationals.

BFM utilizes fixed-income strategies that are actively managed, model or index based. The firm generally employs an active investment style that emphasizes rotation among different types of debt on a relative value basis, specific security selection, quantitative analysis of each security and the portfolio as a whole and intensive credit analysis and review. They utilize a risk-controlled, systematic process for portfolio construction and alpha generation.