Magellan Asset Management Ltd

Magellan Asset Management is a private investment management company that was founded in 2006. The company acts as a subsidiary of Magellan Financial Group and provides a variety of financial services on a global scale. Magellan Asset Management utilizes a long term investment strategy that is focused on capital preservation, risk minimization, and absolute wealth accumulation. The concentrate portfolios that the company creates are usually composed of around 20 to 40 securities, focusing on companies that have a market capitalization greater than $10 billion or $25 billion for global plus that have had a history of high returns and, according to Magellan Asset Management’s assessment, are trading at a discount to its intrinsic value. Magellan Asset Management conducts its research in house, using fundamental analysis with a bottom up stock picking approach to make its investment decisions. The company invests in public equity markets on a global scale, focusing on infrastructure and utility companies. As of 2015, the company invests most heavily in the information technology sector, which alone makes up over half of its total investment allocations, and also invests in the consumer discretionary, finance, utilities and telecommunications, and consumer staples sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing sector allocation. Magellan Asset Management provides its services to a variety of clients, including investment companies, state or municipal government entities, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, retail, and institutional investors, among others. The company has over $27 billion in total regulatory assets under management and has 84 employees, 32 of which are investment professionals. Magellan Asset Management operates out of its headquarters in Sydney, although its clients are globally diversified. The company has a current market value of over 15 billion, a significant increase from its $9 billion valuation just two years prior.