Strategies

U.S. Equity

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The U.S. Equity strategy seeks to deliver long-term growth of capital by generating returns consistently in excess of the S&P 500. The team uses a bottom-up, fundamental and benchmark-unaware investment approach to create a primarily liquid and concentrated portfolio.

Style: Opportunistic core
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental
Inception: January 1996
Average number of holdings: 20-30
Market-cap bias: Large
Sector constraints: None
Vehicles: Separate account, institutional commingled fund

Global Value

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The Global Value strategy seeks to deliver attractive real returns while preserving our investors’ capital over time by using a value approach to investing in global equity markets. The investment team follows a bottom-up, fundamental approach, focusing on companies with primarily quality businesses that they believe have above-average sustainable profitability and that are trading at what they believe are significant discounts to their intrinsic values.

Style: Value
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental
Inception: January 1979*
Average number of holdings: 90-130
Market-cap bias: None
Sector constraints: None
Non-equity securities include: Gold, fixed income, cash
Vehicles: Separate account, institutional commingled fund, mutual fund

International Value

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The International Value strategy seeks to deliver attractive real returns while preserving our investors’ capital over time by using a value approach to investing in international equity markets. The investment team follows a bottom-up, fundamental approach, focusing on companies with primarily quality businesses that they believe have above-average sustainable profitability and that are trading at what they believe are significant discounts to their intrinsic values.

Style: Value
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental
Inception: September 1993*
Average number of holdings: 90-130
Market-cap bias: None
Sector constraints: None
Non-equity securities include: Gold, fixed income, cash
Vehicles: Separate account, institutional commingled fund, mutual fund

High Yield

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The High Yield strategy seeks to maximize risk-adjusted returns by modifying risk exposure** throughout the high yield credit cycle, while seeking to minimize the permanent impairment of capital.

Style: Value
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental credit analysis
Inception: November 2004***
Average number of holdings: 70-110
Industry constraints: None
Historical issuer weight: 0.50%-2.50%
Investment universe includes: High-yield corporate debt instruments
High-yield loans
Short-term debt securities
Vehicles: Separate account, mutual fund

Global Income

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The Global Income strategy seeks current income generation and long-term growth of capital across all market environments. Through bottom-up fundamental analysis focusing on global income-producing securities, the team seeks to avoid the permanent impairment of capital by investing only where they believe an adequate discount to intrinsic value exists.

Style: Value
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental
Inception: May 2012
Average number of holdings: 75-125
Market-cap bias: None
Sector constraints: None
Investment universe includes: Equity
Credit (including high-yield securities)
Gold-related securities
Cash and sovereign debt
Vehicles: Separate account, mutual fund

Arbitrage

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The Arbitrage strategy seeks to achieve absolute returns with low volatility and low correlation with other asset classes. The team uses a value approach to employ in-depth fundamental research in seeking to identify global investment opportunities.

Style: Event-driven
Approach: Bottom-up fundamental
Inception: January 1986
Average number of deals: 40-70
Market cap bias: Small-mid cap focus
Investment universe: Global equities
Vehicles: Separate account, LP

*Commencement of management by Jean-Marie Eveillard. Prior to January 2000, strategy was managed by Jean-Marie while he was at another firm. On March 27, 2009, Mr. Eveillard transitioned to a Senior Advisory role.

**In relation to this strategy, risk is defined as the use of high yield securities rated below the highest rated category of non-investment grade. High yield bonds include those that carry rating such as Ba1/BB+ or lower by credit rating agencies. All high yield securities are considered "speculative" and are often referred to as "junk" bonds. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

***Prior to October 2011, results were achieved at a firm other than First Eagle. Portfolios are actively managed and subject to change.