Who are Amati Global Investors?

Amati Global Investors is an independent and approachable investment management business. We specialise in two disciplines in which we aim to offer excellence drawn from a substantial depth of experience: UK quoted small and mid-sized companies, including the management of Venture Capital Trusts; and systematic trading of the world's major futures markets across bonds, interest rates, equities, and commodities. The UK equities team is based in Edinburgh and operates an investment process driven by fundamental research to identify outstanding growth companies and the appropriate times at which to invest in them, both at early stages and as businesses valued at up to £2bn. The systematic trading team, based in London, operate a highly rigorous trend following investment process which originated on the trading floor of BP, where it was developed over many years, and deployed successfully for a decade.

Why Amati?

Andrea Amati made the earliest known violin, and his grandson Nicolo Amati was the first great violin maker. Nicolo is reported to be the teacher of Antonio Stradivari, the most famous maker in the history of the instrument. In choosing this name for the business we are setting our sights high to bring world-class craftsmanship, with the thoughtfulness, skill, care and attention to detail that this brings with it, to the ever shifting and hugely demanding job of constructing robust, responsive, and brilliantly performing portfolios of investments.

Just as every great instrument is made for the player, we seek to run funds that work for and fit our investors. We manage funds to take calculated risks and we will always be straight about what these risks are. Our ambition is not to be top of the performance tables over short term periods, because this is a recipe for poor risk management. A portfolio which is resonant like a great instrument will seek to fit the movement of the times, will be made up of the best available materials, and will be built to last.

Why Global?

As investors we have a global outlook. The trend fund invests in a wide range of the world's most liquid markets operating in many time zones. On the equities side we currently run funds that invest in UK listed companies capitalised at up to £2bn. Conventional wisdom suggests that this asset class is predominantly focussed on the UK economy, but amongst the 1,500 or so smaller companies listed in London are those which have operations in almost every part of the world. We seek to make a virtue of this, and approach investment decisions with a global mindset. As a result our equity portfolio has a high degree of international diversification.