Nazmeera Moola

IAM is an active, team-based, specialist manager which performs in-house fundamental research, aiming to outperform markets. They follow a systematic process to build investment ideas into portfolios, managing a wide spectrum of investment propositions. The firm's investment team is divided into specialist teams of key decision makers who leverage off an equity and fixed-income research platform. The teams focus on high quality idea generation and execution, which is incorporated into portfolios using valuation techniques, best practice fund construction and risk control technology.IAM's equity strategies are based on their in-house research capability and are delineated along the resource, industrial and financial sectors. The firm seeks to hold stocks which have a history of value creation, strong and improving operating performance, attractive value relative to their performance and which attract investor attention, believing that these are the four factors that drive stock prices.Their fixed-income team considers several axes of value across multiple time horizons to maximize the scope of their investments. They employ a variety of strategies including managing duration, taking advantage of yield curve shifts, relative value bond switches, controlled derivative exposure and short-term trading.IAM's fixed-income strategies benefit from the interaction between the London and South African fixed-income teams to establish integrated global economic and market views. This increases their research efficiency and allows the fixed-income team to have a greater focus on the local market conditions.