A. J O Hambro Capital Management Limited and the JOHCM Group
J O Hambro Capital Management Limited (“JOHCML”), a company organized under the laws of
the England & Wales, was launched in 1993. JOHCML became a registered investment adviser
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), under the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, in 2008. JOHCML is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Perpetual Limited
(“Perpetual”), an Australian listed diversified financial services company (ASX code: PPT),
headquartered in Sydney.
We specialize in providing discretionary investment advisory services across a diverse range of
equity strategies. We offer our services through pooled vehicles (or investment funds) and to
clients that establish separately managed accounts. Our origins in the mid-1990s were originally
in managing an activist equity strategy. However, in 2001, we launched our first public equity
strategies (UK Growth and Continental European), and this is the business that continues to this
day.
In January 2023, Perpetual Limited (“Perpetual”) acquired the parent company of JOHCML
Pendal Group Limited (“Pendal”). As a result of the acquisition, JOHCML, and its affiliates,
JOHCM (USA) Inc. (”JOHCMU”) JOHCM (Singapore) Pte Ltd., (“JOHCM Singapore”),
Perpetual Investment Services Europe Limited (“PISEL”), the management company for
JOHCM’s Irish domiciled UCITS, formerly known as JOHCM Funds (Ireland) Limited
(“JOHCMI”), and JOHCM Funds (UK) Limited (“JOHCMF”), the authorized corporate director
of JOHCM’s UK domiciled UCITS, (in this Form ADV, collectively referred to as “JOHCM
Group”), and Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley (“TSW”), an SEC registered investment advisor
based in Richmond, Virginia, became indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Perpetual.
In August 2023, Perpetual announced the establishment of a global asset management structure
and leadership team, to form one global asset management division. Perpetual’s global asset
management division is itself divided into separate boutiques that provide asset management
services globally, (including JOHCM Group, TSW, Barrow Hanley Global Investors and
Trillium Asset Management, (together “Perpetual Asset Management”). J O Hambro Capital
Management will continue to be managed by its long-standing executive committee, to be led
going forward by Clare Forster, the newly appointed CEO and Global Head of Business
Management and Strategic Delivery.
JOHCML conducts its investment advisory business on a global basis, both directly and
indirectly through its affiliates, JOHCMU, JOHCM Singapore, JOHCMF and Perpetual
Investment Services Europe Limited (“PISEL”).
To the extent allowed by law, arrangements among all members of JOHCM Group and its
employees, including portfolio managers, may take a variety of forms, including but not limited
to dual employee, delegation, participating affiliate, sub-agency or other servicing arrangements.
Certain directors and executive officers of one entity within Perpetual Asset Management may
also serve as directors- and executive officers of one or more other entities within Perpetual
Asset Management. This practice is designed to make Perpetual Asset Management’s global
capabilities available to clients in a coherent and uninterrupted manner within the varied global
framework. In these circumstances, the member of Perpetual Asset Management with which the
client has its investment management agreement will remain fully responsible for the account
from a legal and contractual perspective. No additional fees are charged for the affiliate’s
services except as set forth in the investment management agreement.
JOHCML has entered into a personnel-sharing arrangement with JOHCM Singapore (a
“Participating Affiliate”). The personnel-sharing arrangement is based on the “Unibanco” line of
no-action letters issued by the staff of the SEC that permit an SEC-registered investment adviser
to rely on and use the resources of advisory affiliates, subject to the supervision of the SEC-
registered investment adviser. Under this arrangement, certain employees of the Participating
Affiliate serve as “associated persons” of JOHCML and, in this capacity, are subject to the
oversight of JOHCML and its Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”). These associated persons
may, on behalf of JOHCML, participate in providing investment management services
(including acting as portfolio managers), trading, research and related services to clients of
JOHCML. Please see Item 10 for additional details regarding the nature of the relationship
amongst members of the JOHCM Group.
Assets under management for JOHCML as of September 30, 2023, stood at $27.330
billion, which
includes RAUM of $26.219 billion and $1.111 billion in model portfolios for which we provide
investment recommendations. Total assets under management, for JOHCM Group as of September
30, 2023, were $27.787 billion (including RAUM and the model portfolios described above).
B. JOHCM’s Advisory Services
The JOHCM Group specializes in providing discretionary investment advisory services across a
diverse range of equity strategies, including sustainable and impact strategies. The JOHCM Group
generally offers its investment advisory services through pooled vehicles (or investment funds) and to
clients that establish separately managed accounts. These equity strategies cover UK, Pan and
Continental Europe, Japan, Global, International, Asian, Emerging Markets, and Sustainable and
Impact strategies, and are described in greater detail in Item 8, below.
When advising clients that are investment funds, the investment advice we provide to such funds is
dependent on and limited to the investment objectives of the respective fund as set forth in the fund’s
governing documents. Such investment advice is not based upon the individual needs of the investors
in the fund. The information in this Brochure that describes or relates to the funds is qualified in its
entirety by the offering documents of the respective entity. We also provide investment services to
clients through separately managed accounts (or segregated mandates). When providing investment
services to segregated mandates, we generally tailor our advisory services to the individual needs of
such clients, including any specific guidelines or restrictions such clients may request.
We do not participate in wrap fee programs.
C. JOHCM Group’s approach to investment advisory services
JOHCM Group offers an alternative to the traditional investment management firms that have
dominated the market for many years. We hire portfolio managers who are able to remain true to their own
investment style without being held to invest in a company preferred list of stocks. We have an excellent
record of investment professional retention.
JOHCM Group has an entrepreneurial culture that aims to attract portfolio managers who have great
confidence in their stock-picking skills. These are people who often have worked for major investment
firms where they were bound to a corporate process or restricted to core stock lists and set asset
allocations. JOHCM Group’s managers are free to invest - within agreed portfolio construction
criteria - where they choose.
JOHCM Group expects portfolio managers to deploy their proven and individual talents to their full
extent for the benefit of our investors.
JOHCM Group’s culture is investment led. We are protective of investment integrity. Talented
portfolio managers join JOHCM Group because they recognize that JOHCM Group cares about
protecting their performance records via capacity discipline, and we are active in aligning their
interests with those of investors and the firm.
The definition of success for many investment houses is to attract the largest possible amount of assets in
each offered strategy. Every time JOHCM Group launches a strategy, the portfolio manager determines the
maximum amount of money that he or she is prepared to run in that strategy (including investment funds
and segregated mandates). Once any strategy reaches its predetermined size limit, it is closed to new
investors, giving the portfolio manager the conditions in which they can deliver and sustain outperformance
and stay focused on the interests of our clients.
Talented people, excellent research and hard work are every investment manager's stock in trade.
However, we believe that it requires more than just exceptional asset management skills to exceed
benchmarks; it also takes a special environment where all the supporting conditions and incentives that
portfolio managers need to outperform are in place. JOHCM Group aims to provide that environment.
Unlike the other investment houses, JOHCM Group’s portfolio managers spend little time on office
management and marketing-related activities. Being heavily involved in such matters does little to
engender investment outperformance. By distancing managers from some of the peripheral activities
associated with investment management and giving them the degree of scope and total support they
need, we make our portfolio managers more accountable for the performance of the funds they
manage. Also, when portfolio managers have all they need to get results, they have no reason to move
on and every reason to stay. All of the above, coupled with our unceasing drive for outperformance, the
self-imposed limits on strategy asset sizes and firmly committed portfolio managers, directly aligns our
interests with those of our clients.