On June 18, 2025, Stewart Buyers, an energetic, long-only international fairness specialist with $16.5 billion in belongings beneath administration, launched the Stewart Buyers Worldwide Leaders fund (SWWLX) with an preliminary funding from a U.S. basis. SWWLX is the agency’s first fund obtainable to common US traders.
Stewart is Edinburgh-based and describes themselves this manner: “We’re a small workforce of passionate traders managing, on behalf of our purchasers, funding portfolios with a spotlight on high-quality firms which might be effectively positioned to contribute to, and profit from, sustainable improvement.”
Consistent with that, the Stewart Buyers Worldwide Leaders Fund invests in high quality firms which might be well-positioned to contribute to, and profit from, sustainable improvement. SWWLX is actively managed, benchmark agnostic, and concentrated, and can sometimes maintain 30 to 60 firms with free float market capitalizations of a minimum of $5 billion. The fund invests in fairness securities in each developed and rising markets.
Managers Sashi Reddy joined the agency’s funding workforce in 2007, whereas David Gait joined in 1997. Mr. Reddy, whose non-US fund has a beta of 0.79, makes a well-known and wise argument: “High quality companies shine when the top-down macro surroundings turns into tougher, as is the case in the present day. Firms with sturdy cultures and sound franchises handle uncertainty, volatility, and complexity higher than most, and we proceed to seek out these companies, purchase them at cheap costs, and stay affected person traders.”
The U.S. fund is just like the Worldwide Leaders technique obtainable to non-U.S. traders since November 2013. Morningstar UK’s workforce ranks that technique as one of many 5 greatest choices for navigating chaotic occasions:
Stewart Buyers Worldwide Leaders Sustainability has a novel course of, with sturdy credentials in sustainable investing, and a deal with high-quality, lower-risk shares, making it a reliable possibility in down markets.
The technique targets firms that may contribute to sustainable human improvement, with the bottom ecological influence. Though the workforce locations a lot emphasis on sustainability and stewardship, this isn’t a pure environmental, social, and governance fund. The workforce seems for sturdy franchises with high-quality administration that’s effectively aligned with shareholders. The method is genuinely long-term and affected person, leading to comparatively low turnover. It results in a portfolio that appears very totally different to the benchmark. The technique has a development bias with overweightings within the expertise and healthcare sectors. (Mathieu Caquineau, “5 World Fairness Funds to Survive Market Volatility,” 10/23/2024)
It’s, by their score, a four-star fund.
Excellent news: it’s low-cost for a concentrated energetic fund, with bills capped at 0.60%. Unhealthy information: they’re launching an institutional share class ($1 million minimal initially) with “extra share courses for retail traders within the brief time period.”