Strategy

Polen Global Growth

ETF Managed Account Mutual Fund UCITS

Our Global Growth strategy seeks to achieve long-term growth by building a concentrated portfolio of competitively advantaged businesses with potential for sustainable, above-average earnings growth.

Number of Holdings: 25-35
Style: Growth
Benchmark: MSCI ACWI

  • Global growth strategy with a strong emphasis on sustainable earnings growth
  • Focus on companies with high returns on capital and double-digit earnings growth
  • Concentrated portfolio of approximately 30 high-quality growth companies
  • Low portfolio turnover with long-term holding periods

We believe that consistent earnings growth is the primary driver of intrinsic value and long-term stock appreciation. We seek to invest in companies with a durable earnings profile driven by a sustainable competitive advantage, financial strength, sound ESG practices, proven management teams, and powerful products/services. By thinking and investing like a business owner and taking a long-term investment approach, we believe we can preserve capital and provide stability across market cycles.

Recent Portfolio Commentary

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Global Growth Commentary
Generative AI tools appear to be gaining traction, which we expect will lead to accelerating growth for the cloud business.
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Focus Growth Commentary
We were gratified to see the Portfolio outperform the Russell 1000 Growth Index amid two notable peak-to-trough drawdowns this quarter—and, in fact, outperform in 20 of the Index's 23 down days.
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International Growth Commentary
In volatile times, focusing on what matters—profit growth trajectories—steadies and, in fact, dictates our thinking.

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Polen Capital Management, LLC is an independent registered investment advisor. 

The MSCI ACWI Index is a market capitalization weighted equity index that measures the performance of large and mid-cap segments across developed and emerging market countries. The index is maintained by Morgan Stanley Capital International. The volatility and other material characteristics of the indices referenced may be materially different from the performance achieved by an individual investor.  In addition, an investor’s holdings may be materially different from those within the index.  Indices are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index.

ESG refers to Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria. The Global Growth strategy integrates material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into research analysis as part of a comprehensive evaluation of a company’s long-term financial sustainability. There is a risk that the investment techniques and risk analyses applied, including but not limited to the integration of ESG factors into the research analysis, will not produce the desired results and that legislative, regulatory, or tax developments may affect the investment techniques available. There is no guarantee that the investment objective will be achieved.