Global Thematic Partners, LLC

Global Thematic Partners is an investment management company based out of New York. The company was founded in 2010, starting out with a significant $9.4 billion in assets under management. Global Thematic Partners has an additional location in London and is currently headed by CEO Oliver S. Kratz. The company operates under its holding company Global Thematic Partners Holdings and has 21 employees of which 11 are investment professionals. Global Thematic Partners focuses on thematic investment, anticipating and capitalizing on discontinuity and change on a global scale and believing that “big shifts in economics, social science and – above all – natural science are highly non-linear developments.” Global Thematic Partners conducts its research internally and utilizes fundamental and quantitative research and a bottom up investment approach to make its investment decisions. The company focuses on locating inflection points and uncovering hidden optionality, investing in public equity markets on a global scale. Global Thematic Partners invests most heavily in the materials sector, which alones makes up over a quarter of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the finance, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, and health care sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company currently has over $12.7 billion in total assets under management spread across 39 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts except for 1, alone making up approximately $13 million in assets. Although the firm’s total number of accounts has not changed significantly since its inception, its total assets under management, despite some volatility, has increased from its beginning $9.4 billion in held assets to its current amount today. Global Thematic Partners mainly caters to pension and profit sharing plans, each alone making up a third of its client base, and also provides its services to other pooled investment vehicles and corporations, among others.