GENESIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLP


Genesis Investment Management, LLP (the “Firm”) specialises in managing investments in emerging market equities for institutional investors. Please see Item 7 of this Brochure for more information with respect to the Firm’s clients. The Firm provides such investment management services on a discretionary basis. The Firm was organised in the United Kingdom in 2004 but taking into account its predecessor entities, the Firm has been in business since 1989. The Firm currently has two corporate partners, ten individual partners and a trust and operates through a series of boards/committees and appointments described below. The Firm’s principal office is at 21 Grosvenor Place, SW1X 7HU United Kingdom. The Firm serves as an investment manager, investment adviser or sub-adviser to various clients, including, but not limited to, pension plans, endowments, foundations, investment companies and governmental entities. Please see Item 7 of this Brochure for more information with respect to the Firm’s clients.

Principal Ownership Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a publicly-traded asset management company (NYSE: AMG) with equity investments in boutique investment management firms (“AMG”), owns a majority of the equity interests of the Firm. AMG holds its majority interest in the Firm indirectly through three wholly owned subsidiaries: AMG Genesis, LLC, AMG Atlantic Holdings Ltd and AMG New York Holdings Corp. AMG also holds equity interests in other investment management firms (“AMG Affiliates”). Each of the AMG Affiliates, including the Firm, is operated autonomously and independently, except, with respect to the Firm, as described in this Brochure. Further information on both AMG and AMG’s Affiliates is provided in Item 10. The remaining interest in the Firm is owned by ten individual partners, a corporate partner and a trust, which facilitates the recycling of partnership interests and future awards for the benefit of individual partners. Since the formation of the Firm in 2004, the individual partners in aggregate have held approximately 40% of the equity in issue and AMG have held the balance of 60%. After giving effect to the Reorganisation, the individual partners and trust in aggregate own approximately 41% of the equity in issue and AMG owns approximately 59%. Three of the individual partners and the trust each own more than 5%. The individual partners have each contributed capital to the Firm and entered into a commitment to remain in the Firm for a minimum fixed period. Nine of these partners are Investment Team members and the tenth partner serves as the Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”). Further details on these individuals are included in the Brochure Supplement.
The Firm
The Firm is registered in England and Wales as a limited liability partnership and has 60 employees, including clerical, part-time staff and contractors, working in its London office as of the 31st December 2019. The Firm’s Governing Board is comprised of three senior AMG representatives and two Genesis representatives. The Governing Board deals by exception with major corporate matters including the admissions or retirement of individual partners. Authority to set policy on all other matters, including investment management policy, is delegated to the Firm’s Operating Board under the Firm’s partnership agreement. The Firm is managed by the Operating Board which is comprised of the Joint Managing Partners, the Managing Director (who is also CCO), and two independent non-executive members. The Operating Board has overall responsibility for managing the Firm. The day-to-day business is overseen by several formal committees which include the PCT (Investment), Operations Executive Committee (“OpEx”), Group Audit Committee and Group Risk Committee In addition to the formal committees, certain matters are delegated to a number of management committees, including the Valuation Committee, Risk Management Committee, Business Continuity and Cyber Security Committee, Product Governance Committee, Service Provider Oversight Committee and Conduct Breach Committee. Such committees meet regularly and are comprised of partners, directors and certain members of staff. Further details of the roles and responsibilities of some of these committees are set forth below. Genesis Group Structure and Reorganisation The “Genesis Group” is organised as two interlocking entities, both of which are registered as investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Prior to the Reorganisation, Genesis Asset Managers, LLP (“GAM”) was the parent of the Genesis Group and was appointed by clients as an investment manager/adviser. Upon consummation of the Reorganisation effective after the close of business on 30th June 2019, the Firm (formerly a subsidiary of GAM) became the parent of the Genesis Group and assumed ownership and substantially all of the assets and liabilities of GAM, with the exception of the QFII Securities. After the Reorganisation, clients of the Genesis Group appoint the Firm as their investment manager/adviser and the Firm delegates to GAM certain of its responsibilities relating to the QFII Securities. The delegation of the Firm’s investment management responsibilities to GAM is set forth in a written QFII Agency Agreement. The consummation of the Reorganisation did not result in a change in the form of organisation of the Firm, a dissolution of the Firm, nor a change in the state or territory in which the Firm is organised. After giving effect to the Reorganisation, AMG remains as the owner of a majority of the economic interests of the Genesis Group. After the transfer of GAM’s client investment management agreements or equivalent documents to the Firm as part of the Reorganisation, investment advisory services continue to be provided by the Firm, which is a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Although each of GAM and the Firm are registered as investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, such registration does not imply that GAM, the Firm or their respective personnel have a certain level of skill or training. More details on GAM are available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.

Advisory Services The Firm aims to generate excellent long-term investment performance in emerging market equities for institutional clients. In general, the Firm may invest client assets in the following securities and instruments: equity securities, listed and unlisted securities, securities traded over the counter, non-U.S. securities, warrants, private placements, rights offerings, open-end funds, convertible bonds and preferred stock. The Firm primarily utilises its own independent research and analysis and uses a bottom-up investment approach to create a diversified portfolio of emerging market equities. The Firm does not construct portfolios with reference to an index. The Firm believes that it can best deliver excellent long-term investment performance by working as a team to make investments in quality businesses at attractive prices.

The Firm’s emerging markets opportunity set consists of countries defined as low- and middle-income economies by the World Bank as well as high income economies (such as South Korea and Taiwan) included in the major emerging markets benchmark indices. In addition, the Firm’s client portfolios may also contain companies that are listed on the stock markets of high-income economies, but that generate a significant proportion of their revenues, profits or cashflow from, or whose assets or intellectual property are mostly located in emerging markets. As a general principle, the Firm does not use derivatives to supplement investment strategy and the Firm does not short stock. The Firm may also invest in depositary receipts, synthetics or participation notes if direct local holdings in a market are not permitted or less advantageous. In addition, the Firm may engage in a securities lending programme for its sponsored pooled investment vehicles. The Firm does not hedge directly against currency fluctuations between the currencies of emerging markets stocks and its base currency of US$. As a specialist manager in emerging market equities, the majority of client portfolios follow a similar global emerging market investment strategy. However, the Firm recognises that all of our clients are unique and therefore, their investment needs may be different. As such, we may modify our core global emerging market equity strategy, as necessary, to meet the goals that our clients specify, in order to accommodate the particular investment objectives and accompanying restrictions requested by our clients. At the commencement of the client relationship for a separate account client, each of such clients executes an investment management agreement, which sets forth their investment objectives, investment strategy and any investment restrictions that will be applicable to our management of the assets in the client’s account. Prior to the execution of the agreement, we review requested objectives and restrictions and work with the client as needed to refine these objectives and restrictions to both meet the client’s needs and provide us with sufficient discretion to properly invest the client’s assets. For example, some clients do not permit investment in the securities of companies which operate in certain countries, or which produce alcohol or are involved in the gambling industry. With respect to the management of pooled vehicles, the investment objectives and restrictions are set forth in the relevant offering document.

Wrap Fee Programmes The Firm does not have any involvement in wrap fee programmes whereby clients select an investment adviser to manage funds through an investment programme presented to the clients by a third-party programme sponsor and clients generally pay the wrap programme sponsor a single fee (called a “wrap fee”) for consulting, brokerage, custodial, portfolio monitoring, and investment management services and such sponsor pays a portion of the wrap fee to the investment adviser.

Foreign Exchange (“FX”) Transactions Foreign exchange transactions for client accounts are generally limited to those necessary to settle trades in emerging market securities which are not denominated in US$. The key factors in informing the Firm’s approach on FX are: FX is not a discretionary part of the investment management process; FX transactions are undertaken to minimise operational risk and maximise efficiency and best execution. The Firm does not hedge directly against currency fluctuations between the currencies of emerging markets stocks and uses a base currency of US$. For its pooled vehicles and as instructed by several segregated account clients, the Firm has the ability to execute FX transactions in certain currencies through an FX trading platform operated by a third-party provider. For the majority of its segregated account clients, it is the responsibility of the client’s appointed custodian to handle FX transactions. The Firm can instruct a third-party provider to execute FX transactions on a client account’s behalf if requested by the client. For clients who have not elected to use the FX platform, the Firm will instruct the client’s custodian to execute the necessary FX transaction. This is done either through standing instructions communicated to the custodian when the account is established or at the time settlement instructions are sent to the custodian for a particular transaction. The custodian is responsible for executing FX transactions, including the timing and applicable rate of such execution pursuant to its own internal processes. Where a client has arrangements in place with its custodian regarding the execution of FX transactions, such arrangements may impact the overall fees and expenses charged to the client by the custodian. Therefore, all such FX transactions are effected with the client’s custodian, and the Firm does not seek to obtain different FX rates from other sources. Because of various local limitations regarding transactions for some restricted currencies, transactions in restricted currencies are often effected by each client’s custodian pursuant to standing instructions (both pooled vehicles and separate account clients). The Firm also instructs other types of FX transactions, such as those related to dividend and interest repatriation. Where possible such FX activity will utilise an FX trading platform. Where required the Firm will issue standing instructions to each client’s custodian to fulfil these FX transactions. Assets Under Management As of 31st December 2019, the Firm’s client assets under management total (“AUM”) was US$20.8 billion. Of this, the Firm delegated management of US$248 million to GAM, which is comprised of the value attributable to the QFII Securities. Please see Firm’s Form ADV Part 1A – Item 5.F for more information.
Other Jurisdictions
The Firm also provides financial services to institutional clients in other countries including Canada, and in Australia where it is exempt from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services licence under the Corporations Act 2001 in respect of the financial services it provides. The Firm is registered with the SEC under U.S. laws and the financial services are regulated by the FCA under UK Laws, which differ from Australian Laws. please register to get more info

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Assets
Pooled Investment Vehicles $13,580,726,125
Discretionary $20,800,636,073
Non-Discretionary $
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