Vinva is an active, quantitatively driven manager which aims to deliver consistent investment outperformance by extracting alpha in a clear and intentional manner. They focus on Australian equity strategies in both long/only and long/short styles. They have no significant sector or style bias, seeking consistency in returns and close to top-quartile active performance over longer periods and market cycles with a strong emphasis on risk management.The firm’s investment philosophy, “Skill, Breadth and Efficiency” is expressed by Grinold's Fundamental Law of Active Management, where they seek to find an investment edge (skill), use it often (breadth) and use it wisely (efficiency).Their systematic investment process involves daily electronic capture of raw data from numerous sources which they process using their proprietary tools and models, which examine a number of families of quantitative signals (value, quality, market-driven) to create a diversified group of investment insights across time horizon and ideas and is primarily focused on bottom-up stock selection. As a result, they do not take large industry or style tilts over time.Vinva constructs portfolios by integrating stock-ranking models, transaction cost forecasts and risk models in a systematic proprietary optimization process that seeks to maximize expected alpha (after costs) for a given level of active risk. To maximize breadth, they build their portfolio by taking a large number of small, deliberate, active positions across the universe of stocks.
