GuardCap Asset Management is a specialist investment company based in London and solely focused on managing concentrated, bottom-up, strategies for institutional investors. The investment manager is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto-based financial services firm, Guardian Capital Group Limited. GuardCap Asset Management had $13.1 billion in assets under management (AUM) and an additional $1.3 billion in assets under administration (AUA), as of December 31, 2021.
GuardCap Asset Management’s primary strategies are Global Equities and Global Emerging Market Equities. The strategies are long-only equity strategies, targeting long term absolute investment returns and investing primarily in shares and related instruments of shares, with typical portfolios holding 20-25 stock positions, seeking returns which exhibit lower volatility than their benchmark over the long-term. Its GuardCap Global Equity Fund Class: I (Acc) USD, which was launched in December 2014, has outperformed the benchmark over the 7-year period since its inception, generating an annualized return of 11.84%, compared to 8.43% for the benchmark.