Investment Approach
Portfolios built around your circumstances
We begin by understanding your circumstances, objectives, time horizon and experience before building a portfolio. Once we have a full picture, we design a portfolio that is built around your needs. Unlike firms that rely on standardised solutions, we believe clients should be treated as people, not numbers. We therefore take a personalised approach to how we serve clients, ensuring portfolios reflect individual goals, risk tolerances and long-term plans.
A focus on 'real returns' through time
Our portfolios are actively managed with the flexibility to adapt as markets shift and as your circumstances evolve. In a world where shifting global dynamics are likely to lead to greater market volatility and more frequent regime changes, our mission is clear: to focus on what matters most by growing capital in real terms (ahead of inflation) over the long term. We therefore measure success by whether capital maintains and increases its purchasing power.
Truly independent portfolio construction
We are free from the conflicts and product biases often found in larger institutions. We have no in-house products or funds to promote and select investments solely on their suitability for clients. This independence gives us the freedom to build portfolios using the most appropriate investments available and to adjust them as conditions change, always with clients’ best interests at the centre.
Central to our investment approach are two key principles: Thoughtful Diversification and Resilience.
These foundations guide our investment process when seeking to grow our clients' capital in real terms, through time and turbulence.
Investment Process
Lulworth's portfolios cater to a variety of financial objectives, requirements and time-frames.
Central to our approach are two key principles: thoughtful diversification and resilience. These foundations guide our investment process.
Thoughtful diversification
We invest portfolios across a broad range of liquid global asset classes. In an environment of rapid policy change, geopolitical risk and rising correlations, we take an actively managed, un-benchmarked approach that allows portfolios to adapt thoughtfully to today’s conditions rather than relying on static, backward-looking models of the past.
Resilience
We seek portfolios that can endure by delivering stability and growth in real terms, through time and over a wide range of economic environments. To do so, in addition to actively managing the portfolio based on the perceived risks and opportunities in global markets, we overlay an allocation to specialist securities and strategies that can protect or perform well when traditional asset classes or the economy may be struggling. These assets are selected by us for specific roles and exposures that we feel are best suited to the current or prospective market regimes. This can help stabilise portfolios during more challenging environments, without materially sacrificing returns.
We constantly monitor market and economic conditions to ensure the strategic and tactical asset allocations are suitable, including the currency exposure and duration (interest rate sensitivity).
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We complement in-house expertise with a network of trusted external specialists, supporting thoughtful judgements across asset classes, countries and themes as conditions evolve.
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Based on this research, we carry out investment analysis and due diligence to inform portfolio construction, ensuring alignment with clients’ objectives, income requirements, risk tolerance and time horizons.
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