Portfolio Highstreet Global Equity Fund
Lead Portfolio Manager* Robert Yan
Benchmark** MSCI All Country World Net Index
Fund Report February 2024

Objective

The investment objectives of the Fund are to provide investors with:

  • The opportunity for capital appreciation by investing in a well-diversified portfolio of global equities
  • A rate of return in excess to the benchmark
  • A risk profile similar to the benchmark

Process

The Fund follows a disciplined, quantitative investment approach.

The Fund’s investment process contains 3 key steps: Quantitative Alpha Model, Technical Analysis, and Qualitative Verification. A 'bottom-up' stock selection approach employing Valuation, Asset Growth, Earnings Quality and Market Reaction forms the basis of the process. The Fund strives to have an attractive quantitative profile by selecting stocks with an attractive multi-factor profile and disposing stocks with unattractive multi-factor profile.

 Global Equity Process


Performance Overview - Annualized Returns 

3 MO % YTD % 1 Year % 3 Year % 5 Year % 10 Year % SPSD %
7.8 17.1 17.1 6.9 11.2 9.8 10.9

Performance as of December 31st, 2023. Since Performance Start Date (PSD) - March 26, 2012. All information is in Canadian dollars. The performance presented is gross of management fees and administrative (fund) expenses and rates of return for greater than one year have been annualised. The indicated rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns including changes in unit value and reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Performance is historical and is not intended to be indicative of future returns.

 

*Effective January 1, 2020, all members of the Highstreet Pooled Funds Investment Team are employees and registrants of AGF Investments Inc., an affiliate of Highstreet Asset Management Inc. Effective April 1, 2020 the Investment Fund Manager, Portfolio Manager and Trustee of the Highstreet Pooled Funds is AGF Investments Inc. The Highstreet Pooled Funds are investment vehicles offered exclusively to clients of Highstreet Asset Management Inc.

**The MSCI All Country World Index is a market capitalization weighted index that measures global equity market performance. This index includes both developed and emerging markets and covers approximately 85% of the global investable equity opportunity set.

The Highstreet Pooled Funds are prospectus-exempt products and are offered on a private placement basis. Units are offered on a continuous basis to investors who meet the definition of an ‘accredited investor’. Units of the funds are offered to residents in provinces and territories of Canada pursuant to exemptions set forth under National Instrument 45-106 from the prospectus requirements. Please read the offering memorandum before investing in Pooled Funds.