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Guinness Global Innovators Fund

The Guinness Global Innovators strategy seeks capital appreciation and invests in high-quality growth companies.

Overview

The Guinness Global Innovators strategy seeks capital appreciation and invests in high-quality growth companies.

Quality companies with the ability to sustain peer-leading growth over time can offer outperformance for investors over a market cycle.

Rather than relying on past growth to identify such companies, we look for those harnessing the power of innovation via exposure to secular growth themes.

Through a focus on companies with quality characteristics such as high returns on capital, strong balance sheets and sustainable competitive advantages, we aim to select only those with the strength to weather different market environments.

By applying a valuation discipline to stock selection, we seek to avoid overpaying for future growth and the hype that can surround growth companies.

Opportunities in Semiconductors

The semiconductor industry is at an innovation frontier which stretches into a wide range of growth areas. The Guinness Global Innovators team looks at the industry from an investment perspective, examining the market's drivers and opportunities, and explaining how the strategy's emphasis on growth, quality and valuation leads to an overweight in semiconductor stocks.

Investment Team

High quality funds are run by high quality people.

We are proud of our collegial culture, with teams across the business benefiting from each other’s expertise as they target long-term returns for investors.

Dr Ian Mortimer

Dr Ian Mortimer

Portfolio Manager, Global Team

Matt Page

Matthew Page

Portfolio Manager, Global Team

William Van Der Weyden

William van der Weyden

Investment Analyst, Global Team

DREW Jack

Jack Drew

Investment Analyst, Global Team

Sagar Thanki

Sagar Thanki

Portfolio Manager, Global Team

Joe Stephens

Joseph Stephens

Portfolio Manager, Global Team

Loshini Subendran

Loshini Subendran

Investment Analyst, Global Team

Eric Santa

Eric Santa Menargues

Investment Analyst, Global Team

Laura Neill

Laura Neill

Investment Analyst, Global Team

Awards & Ratings

We have a firm commitment to delivering the very best. That commitment is reflected in the awards we have received, some of which are shown below.

 

 

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FundCalibre Rated

Guinness Global Innovators Fund

Elite Provider
FundCalibre

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Guinness Global Innovators Fund - B Rating DE

Guinness Global Innovators Fund

B-Rated Fund (Germany)
Scope

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Guinness Global Innovators Fund - B Rating AT

Guinness Global Innovators Fund

B-Rated Fund (Austria)
Scope

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Guinness Global Innovators Fund - B Rating CH

Guinness Global Innovators Fund

B-Rated Fund (Switzerland)
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Guinness Asian Equity Income Fund - FundCalibre

Guinness Global Innovators Fund

Elite Rated Fund
FundCalibre

How to Invest

We aim to make it simple to invest in our funds. All our funds are open to direct investment via an application form. They are widely available on investment platforms and are eligible for UK investors’ ISAs and SIPPs.

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Investment Case

The Guinness Global Innovators strategy invests in high-quality companies exposed to secular growth themes.

Companies that can sustain faster growth than the market can outperform over a cycle. Investing for growth, however, is beset by pitfalls which the Guinness Global Innovators strategy is designed to avoid.

In the search for growth, the past is often a poor predictor of the future. We therefore start by looking for profitable companies that are exposed to long-lasting, secular growth themes.

To identify companies which can harness these themes in the long term, we look for those businesses with quality characteristics such as high returns on capital, strong balance sheets and understandable and measurable business models.

A key risk of growth investing is overpaying for future growth. By applying a valuation discipline to stock selection, we aim to ensure we are not chasing fads.

To limit stock-specific risk while investing with conviction in every position, we structure the portfolio with an equal-weight approach, bringing discipline and repeatability.
 

Why Invest in the Guinness Global Innovators Fund?

The Guinness Global Innovators strategy seeks capital appreciation and invests in high-quality growth companies.

 

Exposure to secular growth themes

High historic growth is often quickly mean-reverting. We focus on differentiated global businesses exposed to secular growth themes that may offer predictable, sustainable growth.

 

Quality approach to help protect against downside risks

High returns on capital, strong balance sheets and sustainable competitive advantages help us avoid the pitfalls of growth investing such as chasing fads.

 

Value discipline

With bottom-up, valuation-driven stock selection and ESG integration we aim to avoid overpaying for future growth.

 

High conviction

The Fund typically invests in just 30 companies, with each company having a broadly equal weighting. This provides a good balance between the benefits of diversification while also allowing each company to add meaningfully to performance. We don’t have a long tail of small positions and by definition we can never just ‘hug’ the benchmark index.

 

Low turnover

We prefer to invest over the long term. We also recognise the increased costs of trading in and out of companies unnecessarily. Typically we will hold a company in the portfolio for between 3 and 4 years.
 

Repeatable and independent

Ian Mortimer and Matthew Page have managed funds in accordance with this investment process since 2010, and the strategy has been applied since 2003. The process is clear, robust, transparent and scalable. It filters out much of the noise and hype that surrounds companies to focus on the true signals that drive company valuations. By performing their own company research and analysis, using their own proprietary modelling systems, the managers try to avoid some of the behavioural biases associated with being unduly influenced by market sentiment.
 

How do we run the Fund?


 

Exposure to secular growth themes

The investment process begins by identifying innovation themes – secular growth themes in the market that are driving growth, disrupting incumbent business models or technology, or significantly improving current products or services. We utilise third party research and analysis to broaden our understanding of growth trends in the market. We identify around 10 themes and update them annually. We then identify companies with exposure to these secular growth themes which have a market capitalisation greater than $1bn.

 

Quality Screen

With the initial Global Innovators universe created, we then employ screening to identify high-quality companies. We only want to invest in profitable companies with strong balance sheets and good growth prospects, as these quality characteristics help to protect against the downside risks in growth investing. The simple quality criteria screened for are (i) return on capital greater than cost of capital last year (ii) debt/equity < 150%, and (iii) positive earnings growth expected next year. The companies left after the quality screen make up the investible investment universe for the fund and typically have better than average financial metrics showing faster profit growth, larger profit margins, and less susceptibility to cyclical pressures.
 

Further research and stock selection

Within the investible Global Innovators universe, we prioritise candidates for further due diligence on growth, quality and valuation characteristics. We then subject all potential investments to detailed fundamental analysis, with proprietary modelling, an assessment of a stock’s return potential, risk analysis and ESG integration. Above all, we want to understand what competitive advantages or barriers to entry are sustaining a company’s return on investment to determine whether its returns will persist. We also recognise that sentiment and hype can sometimes drive up the valuations of growth companies and so we try to maintain a strict value discipline. We want to avoid paying up for high levels of expected growth in the future as we know, on average, very high growth expectations are often not met, and this can have a detrimental effect on a company’s valuation. We therefore look for companies offering good value relative to their sector, to their historic valuations, or in absolute terms. Our portfolio is fixed at 30 positions, so a new holding must present a better risk/return profile than an existing holding.

 

Sell discipline

It is often easier to find companies to buy that look cheap than it is to identify those companies you own which should be sold. We consider sell discipline as important as selecting companies for purchase and continuously monitor the companies we hold in the Fund. The six core reasons we may sell a company are outlined below.

  1. The company's exposure to a secular growth theme has dimished
  2. Their balance sheet becomes stretched
  3. The valuation becomes too rich, or no longer offers compelling upside
  4. There is a change in a company’s capital budgeting approach
  5. Our original investment thesis no longer holds
  6. We find a more compelling investment idea

How do we construct the portfolio?

The Guinness Global Innovators Fund is a concentrated portfolio of around 30 broadly equally weighted stocks. This provides a number of useful attributes:

  1. It reduces stock-specific risk, as we will not be overweight in a small number of favourite companies.
  2. We will not have a long tail of small holdings in the portfolio, which can be a distraction and a potential drag on performance.
  3. It instils a strong sell discipline as we will sell a position in order to make way for a new one; and we must constantly assess the companies we own in the portfolio in comparison to the rest of the universe available to us.
  4. We are truly index independent. All companies held are given equal target weights without regard to their weighting in the benchmark index, so our portfolio has a high active share.

Factsheets

 

 

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KIIDS

 

 

Fund Class ISIN English French German Spanish Italian Swedish Finnish
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C EUR Acc IE00BQXX3D17
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C GBP Acc IE00BQXX3C00
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C USD Acc IE00BQXX3F31
Guinness Global Innovators Fund I USD Acc IE00BMYPNG19
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y EUR Acc IE00BQXX3L90
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y GBP Acc IE00BQXX3K83
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y USD Acc IE00BQXX3M08
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z EUR Acc IE00BQXX3P39
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z GBP Acc IE00BQXX3N15
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z USD Acc IE00BQXX3Q46
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C CNH Hedged Dist IE000PGA9O74

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Fund Class ISIN English French German Spanish Italian Swedish Finnish
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C EUR Acc IE00BQXX3D17
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y EUR Acc IE00BQXX3L90
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C USD Acc IE00BQXX3F31
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y USD Acc IE00BQXX3M08
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C CNH Hedged Dist IE000PGA9O74
Guinness Global Innovators Fund I USD Acc IE00BMYPNG19
Guinness Global Innovators Fund C GBP Acc IE00BQXX3C00
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y GBP Acc IE00BQXX3K83
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z GBP Acc IE00BQXX3N15
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z EUR Acc IE00BQXX3P39
Guinness Global Innovators Fund Z USD Acc IE00BQXX3Q46

Documents

 

 

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Global Innovators Fund – SFDR Pre-contractual Disclosures

Investing with Guinness

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Prospectus

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Target Market Assessment

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - UK Reporting Fund Status 2024

Guinness Global Innovators Fund - Responsible Investment Factsheet

Global Innovators Fund – SFDR Pre-contractual Disclosures

Global Innovators Fund - Approach to Responsible Investment and ESG

Global Innovators Fund - Sustainability-Related Disclosures

Global Innovators Fund – Exclusion Policy

Our Approach to Remuneration - Guinness Global Equities

Fund Supplement

Guinness Asset Management Funds plc - Application Form

Guinness Global Innovators Fund MDD

Fund Facts

For information on the Fund’s current investments, please see the latest factsheet available on the literature tab above.

The Guinness Global Innovators strategy is also available to UK investors as a UK-domiciled vehicle denominated in GBP: the WS Guinness Global Innovators Fund.
 

 

Launch Date
Fund managers (start date)
Ian Mortimer (31/10/2014)
Matthew Page (31/10/2014)
Benchmark
MSCI World Index
IA sector
IA Global
Structure
OEIC (UCITS)
Domicile
Ireland
Underlying currency
US Dollar
Pricing
Daily, forwards
Valuation
2300 Dublin time
Deal cut off time
1500 Dublin time
Administrator
Waystone Fund Administrators (IE) Limited
Custodian
Brown Brothers Harriman
UK Reporting Fund status
Yes
ISA Eligible
Yes

Share Classes

For full information on the share classes available for investment please refer to the Key Investor Information document.

 

Class OCF Max Initial Charge Min Investment ISIN SEDOL Bloomberg
C EUR Acc 1.84% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3D17 BQXX3D1 GGICEUA ID
C GBP Acc 1.84% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3C00 BQXX3C0 GGICGBA ID
C USD Acc 1.84% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3F31 BQXX3F3 GGICUSA ID
I USD Acc 0.89% 0% 10,000,000 IE00BMYPNG19 BMYPNG1 GGINIUA ID
Y EUR Acc 0.80% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3L90 BQXX3L9 GGIYEUA ID
Y GBP Acc 0.80% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3K83 BQXX3K8 GGIYGBA ID
Y USD Acc 0.80% 5% 0 IE00BQXX3M08 BQXX3M0 GGIYUSA ID
Z EUR Acc 0.65% 0% 100,000,000 IE00BQXX3P39 BQXX3P3 GGIZEUA ID
Z GBP Acc 0.65% 0% 100,000,000 IE00BQXX3N15 BQXX3N1 GGIZGBA ID
Z USD Acc 0.65% 0% 100,000,000 IE00BQXX3Q46 BQXX3Q4 GGIZUSA ID
C CNH Hedged Dist 1.92% 5% 0 IE000PGA9O74 BPCVGX0 GUGGICH ID

Fund Prices

The Funds are priced every working day at 23.00 Dublin time and updated here the following day.

 

Fund Name ISIN Fund Price (+/-) Date
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS C GBP ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3C00 36.5684 -0.1450
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS C EUR ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3D17 32.9979 -0.2294
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS C USD ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3F31 31.2158 0.0323
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Y GBP ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3K83 40.8982 -0.1610
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Y EUR ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3L90 36.8650 -0.2552
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Y USD ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3M08 35.0063 0.0372
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Z GBP ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3N15 41.8252 -0.1645
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Z EUR ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3P39 37.7256 -0.2611
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS Z USD ACCUMULATION IE00BQXX3Q46 35.7022 0.0381
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS I USD ACCUMULATION IE00BMYPNG19 16.8160 0.0178
GUINNESS GLOBAL INNOVATORS FUND CLASS C CNH HEDGED DISTR IE000PGA9O74 16.9178 0.0169

Guinness Global Innovators - Webcast

Date: October 16, 2025 02:00 PM [BST]Dr. Ian Mortimer & Matthew Page

IFA magazine - 93% of funds backed by FundCalibre ‘Elite Rating’ outperform over 10 years

FundCalibre’s inaugural Annual Performance Report has found that 93% of Elite Rated funds with a…

Guinness Global Innovators - Webcast - Covering Q2 2025

Date: July 14, 2025 02:00 PM [BST]Dr. Ian Mortimer & Matthew Page

Trustnet - Just 2.6% of equity funds made top returns over successive five-year periods

Trustnet finds the handful of funds that have achieved top-quartile returns in both halves of the…

Guinness Global Innovators - Webcast - Covering Q1 2025

Date: April 9, 2025 02:00 PM [BST]Dr. Ian Mortimer & Matthew Page

Trustnet - BlackRock and others: The stocks likely to win and lose from Trump’s tariffs

Fund managers identify the characteristics that enable a company to withstand the latest surge in…

February Market Update - Guinness Global Innovators Fund

DeepSeek gave a jolt to the tech sector at the start of an eventful 2025 for equities. Investment…

Global Innovators - 2025 Outlook

Portfolio manager Matt Page examines the success of the Magnificent Seven and the thematic…

FundCalibre - How investors can navigate the trade war chaos

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Global Innovators Fund

THE INNOVATION BOUNCE


FUN FACT
 

Q: What is the height of the tallest kangaroo recorded?
A: 8ft
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Global Innovators Fund

THE INNOVATION BOUNCE


FUN FACT
 

Q: How high can a Kangaroo bounce?
A: Up to 10 feet
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Guinness Global Innovators Fund - Inflation

DRILLING FOR INFLATION


FUN FACT
 

Q: Why is a Woodpecker a good weather forecaster?
A: They call a lot when it's about to rain
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Guinness Global Innovators Fund - Inflation

DRILLING FOR INFLATION


FUN FACT
 

Q: What speed does a woodpecker’s beak strike wood?
A: 25 mph/40kph

How to Invest

We’ve tried to make investing in our Funds as simple as possible. All of our funds are available to invest directly via an application form, we also have good availability across a number of investment supermarkets whilst being eligible for ISAs & SIPPs.

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How to Invest in Guinness Global Investors

 

Guinness Global Innovators Fund is an equity fund. Investors should be willing and able to assume the risks of equity investing. The value of an investment and the income from it can fall as well as rise as a result of market and currency movement; you may not get back the amount originally invested. For full information on the risks, please refer to the Prospectus, Supplement, and KID/KIID for the Fund, which are available on our website (guinnessgi.com/literature).​ If you decide to invest, you will be buying units/shares in the Fund and will not be investing directly in the underlying assets of the Fund. Past performance does not predict future returns.

Simulated past performance: The Fund was launched on 31.10.2014; performance data prior to this date is based on the actual returns of a US mutual fund managed by the same team using the same investment process as applied to the UCITS version. Source: FE fundinfo. Net of fees. Investors should note that fees and expenses are charged to the capital of the Fund. This reduces the return on your investment by an amount equivalent to the Ongoing Charges Figure (OCF). The OCF for the Y share class is 0.80%. Returns for share classes with a different OCF will vary accordingly. Transaction costs also apply and are incurred when a fund buys or sells holdings. The performance returns do not reflect any initial charge; any such charge will also reduce the return.