Global insight with local presence: We Operate across four regions: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Asia and Japan, with offices in 39 locations worldwide.

Information advantage: Analysts and portfolio managers engage in collaborative cross-border dialogue between different teams and regions to ensure that the best ideas and insights are leveraged across our entire offering. We support multiple processes and strategies to meet the full complement of our clients' investment needs.

Investment management tradition: We were one of the first investment managers to offer international equity strategies to institutional investors in the U.S.

Disciplined investment processes: We seek to deliver the advantages of disciplined and proven investment processes anchored in fundamental bottom-up research and strong portfolio manager oversight. Proprietary research and regimented implementation drive all our equity strategies.

Consistent risk discipline: Across each style, our portfolio construction practice is thoroughly vetted against a stable series of risk metrics. Careful adherence to portfolio objectives as expressed through alpha generation, tracking error and correlations, contribute to a disciplined and well-managed program.

Efficiencies in trading and implementation: The depth of our trading knowledge and markets expertise enables us to generate efficiencies for our clients in order flow, liquidity management and marketplace participation. All traders work with clearly defined metrics and objectives.

The prospects for global growth differ by region, but investment opportunities certainly exist. Nigel Emmett explains why.