Our global specialists seek to uncover quality companies that have a sustainable competitive advantage and that may be undervalued, underappreciated or misunderstood by the market. GW&K’s highly collaborative team brings deep industry knowledge -- many of our analysts have worked in the industries they now cover. Our research professionals are business analysts first and foremost.
Guiding Principles
Independent Fundamental Global Research
Our analysts travel all over the globe to identify and analyze the best businesses in developed and emerging markets. GW&K’s global strategist complements this analysis by overlaying economic trends, political risks, and financial issues that could impact company growth potential.
Disciplined Investment Process
GW&K’s team, many of which have worked together for over a decade, have developed a consistent and disciplined process to continually identify best-in-class and small underappreciated growth companies globally. They apply strict criteria to evaluate each company’s growth potential, competitive positioning, and financial strength.
Quality Investing
We purposely set the bar high when assessing the business quality of companies in order to mitigate risk and protect the returns of our investors. Critical to our research is an in-depth evaluation of the quality of a company’s management team. We insist on proven experience, leadership talent, high integrity, and strategic vision.
The firm is run by investment professionals who understand what is required to have a successful investment process. Thus, they are in a position to provide the resources the investment teams need to deliver results.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
GW&K’s culture is defined by open communication and collaboration. People here are passionate about investing, enjoy what they do, and have extensive experience in the industry. This allows us to have deep and candid conversations when we're looking at potential investment ideas for our portfolios.
Pablo Salas
Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Equity Strategy
Every day we search the world for the best-in-class companies that are serving the emerging market consumer. Leveraging our bottom up research and stock selection approach, we come up with our highest conviction investment ideas.
GW&K focuses on niche products that generate excess returns for our clients. We do not chase the same returns clients can get anywhere else in the market.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
Investing in small cap international markets is an important way for clients to diversify their portfolios, and yet, most are quite underexposed to this market segment.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
We monitor the growth and development of many companies over decades. As a result, we are able to identify those that have the truly globally competitive positions or competitive advantages that we believe can sustain the company over time.
Pablo Salas
Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Equity Strategy
In a world of low interest rates and low growth, the emerging consumer is for investors, one of the last frontiers for growth.
The domestic industries of countries outside of the U.S. are generally much smaller than those in the U.S. Thus, by definition, the companies in those markets tend to be smaller. If investors are not exposed to the international small cap markets, they tend to miss out on gaining this exposure to truly diversify their portfolios.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
We thrive on teamwork, which is a source of creativity and accountability. It allows all of us to draw energy and knowledge from each other.
Our bottom up process focuses on discovering unknown or underappreciated companies. The international small cap markets are under-researched. We thrive at getting ahead of other investors to find stocks that we believe have the potential for strong growth.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
We are intrinsically very curious. We like to work together as a team, which makes the environment of researching stocks fun and intellectually rewarding.
What differentiates our approach to international investing is that we own a collection of companies in which we have done the underlying research, and that we believe have excellent growth potential and have not been picked over by other investors.
Reid Galas
Portfolio Manager, International and Global Small Cap Equity Strategies
Commentary
GW&K Global Equity Strategies Investment Commentary – 4Q 2022
Global Equity | Market Commentary
We fully grasp the futility of forecasting macro events so what follows is not a forecast. Rather, we’ll lay out some important events from the fourth quarter of 2022 and how we think they will likely impact the market in 2023.
Although global central bank tightening still provides potential headwinds to global equity markets, the prospect of sustained Asia and EM outperformance appears to be the highest in years based on attractive valuations and exceptional earnings prospects.
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