Brunel Pension Partnership publishes on its website:
“Brunel Pension Partnership (Brunel) is thrilled to share plans for launching its Global High Alpha Equities sub-fund. The open two-stage process is designed to identify the best Global High Alpha managers to partner with. The formal search process will begin in March 2019, when Brunel intends to issue a call for any interested managers to submit Expressions of Interest. Brunel will be assisted throughout the process by consultants from Inalytics and from Redington.
“This a really exciting opportunity for us,” says Mark Mansley, CIO at Brunel Pension Partnership. “Put simply, we are seeking the best global equity fund managers in the world. We expect to spread the portfolio between four or five managers with diverse and complementary approaches. The individual mandates will be fairly unconstrained, but will be long only. We will generally be looking for a long-term approach, innovation and originality in managers’ processes, and high return expectations of 3% or more over benchmark.”
The sub-fund will be delivered through the ACS platform Brunel has developed in conjunction with FundRock, with the formal launch and transition scheduled for Q4 2019. The Global High Alpha portfolio size will be approximately £2bn.”