Why Polunin

Established
  • The same team using the same investment methodology, since inception in 2001.
Experienced
  • Portfolio Managers have an average of more than 25 years of relevant investment experience, across multiple market cycles.
Diversification
  • Return and portfolio characteristics offer significant diversification benefits
Disciplined Process
  • Investment process successfully applied and refined over decades and through various cycles.
Distinctive, differentiated
investment approach
  • Embraces the inherent cyclicality of equity markets to exploit valuation anomalies that other investors avoid or ignore
Committed
  • Committed to performance for existing clients, not growing AUM.

Our History

  • 2002

    Firm Inception:
    EM Long Only Fund
    & EM Long/short Fund Launches
  • 2006

    EM Tech Fund
    Launches
  • 2007

    EM Small Cap
    Strategy Launch
  • 2011

    Singapore office
    opens
  • 2012

    Frontier Markets
    Fund Launches
  • 2017

    Core GEM and GEM
    Small Cap Strategies
    hard-closed
  • 2018

    Employee Ownership
    Scheme
  • 2025

    International Value
    strategy launch

Investment Strategy

  • We Believe

    In the inherent cyclicality of global markets

    That the disciplined and objective exploitation of market cycles offers significant outperformance opportunities combined with a return pattern that deviates from the market and complements the performance characteristics of other investors.

    That the herding behaviour of financial investors which gives rise to market cycles is best exploited using valuation disciplines that ignore the market noise, combined with a willingness to make contrarian decisions, often at key market turning points

  • We Utilize

    proprietary valuation models to highlight materially mispriced investment opportunities.

  • We Monitor

    the ratio of enterprise value (EV) to replacement value (RV) and other proprietary industry-specific valuation metrics to pinpoint cyclical turning points.

  • We Invest

    in sectors with the most favourable risk reward characteristics, in companies with the most discounted valuations in each sector and with stable or improving balance sheets

  • Our Mission

    consistently find mispriced, compelling recovery opportunities with asymmetric risk/return profiles at the right point in the sector cycle to drive long-term outperformance.

Strategies

We manage institutional equity portfolios, including:

Global Emerging Markets long-only
all cap and small cap

Global Emerging
Markets long/short

International long-only
all cap