Genesis Asset Managers, LLP

Genesis Asset Managers, LLP is an investment management firm based out of Guernsey, Channel Islands. The company was originally established in 1989 and was known as Genesis Fund Managers LLP before changing its name to its current Genesis Asset Managers. The firm now operates as a subsidiary of Affiliated Managers Group Inc. Genesis Asset Managers conducts its research both internally and externally, utilizing a bottom up investment approach to make its investment decisions. The firm focuses on the value stocks in public equity markets of emerging markets on a global scale. Genesis Asset Managers uses a stock picking investment philosophy and has a long term investment horizon. Genesis Asset Managers invests most heavily in the information technology sector, which alone makes up over a third of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the finance, utilities and telecommunications, consumer staples, and health care sectors, among other sectors to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company, on average, holds its allocations for 16 quarters and has had a turnover rate of approximately 4.8% in the most recent quarter. Genesis Asset Managers operates with 74 employees of which 12 are investment professionals. The company manages over $28.7 billion in total assets under management spread across 36 total accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts. Although its total number of managed accounts has been somewhat stable despite slight volatility, its total assets under management has increased significantly in recent years, growing from $11.4 billion back in 2010 to well over twice that amount today. Genesis Asset Managers mainly caters to pension and profit sharing plans and pooled investment vehicles, which each make up approximately a third of its client base, and also provides to state and municipal government entities, banking and thrift institutions, charities, investment companies, and others, in order of decreasing clientele.