EQ Model Portfolio: Best Ideas – High Octane

This portfolio is designed for the most adventurous risk profile, with up to 100% invested in equity funds. It is unconstrained in its selection criteria from within the universe of available equity funds, and can make concentrated investments, use sector specific funds, and invest in any geographic region. As a high risk portfolio, its performance is expected to be volatile.

Current Portfolio

	Fund type	Managed by
Equities - Asia
Hermes Asia ex-Japan Equity	OEIC	Jonathan Pines
A fund that follows a contrarian strategy, investing in large sized companies in the Pacific basin.
Impax Asian Environmental Markets	OEIC	David Li & Bruce Jenkyn-Jones
A fund that looks to deliver a portfolio of Asian stocks that play into broad environmental themes that are chosen for their positive impact as well as the potential for compelling returns.
Stewart Investors Asia Pacific Leaders	OEIC	David Gait
The First State Asia Pacific Leaders Fund focuses on large cap stocks with a minimum market cap of $1bn. The fund utilises a team of 22 well-seasoned Asian equity specialists through a stable and well-defined process to uncover compelling stock ideas to construct a high conviction portfolio.
Equities - Emerging Markets
Hermes Global Emerging Markets	OEIC	Gary Greenberg
An equity fund investing predominately in stocks of emerging market countries.
Equities - Europe
Jupiter European	Unit Trust	Alexander Darwall
An equity fund investing in large sized European companies.
OYSTER Continental European Select	OEIC	Mike Clements
The OYSTER Continental European Select fund is a high conviction European all-cap fund investing in high quality companies exhibiting a competitive advantage at attractive valuations. It is managed by Swiss based SYZ Asset Management, with the European equity desk based in London.
Equities - Frontier Markets
Magna New Frontiers	OEIC	Dominic Bokor-Ingram and Stefan Bottcher
A fund focused on frontier markets, including those countries that remain investible but are deemed less established than emerging market countries. Typically these countries exhibit high economic growth and favourable population dynamics.
Equities - Global
BNY Mellon Global Income	OEIC	Nick Clay & Terry Coles
An unconstrained global equity fund, with an aim to produce a yield in excess of the MSCI World index.
Fundsmith Equity	OEIC	Terry Smith
A long only global growth equity fund consisting of a portfolio of 20-30 quality companies.
Rathbone Global Opportunities	Unit Trust	James Thomson
An equity fund investing in stocks on a global basis.
Equities - Japan
Baillie Gifford Japanese	OEIC	Matthew Brett
An equity fund investing in large sized Japanese companies.
Equities - Thematic
First State Global Listed Infrastructure Fund	OEIC	Andrew Greenup & Peter Meany
The fund focuses on identifying stocks that are under-priced with respect to their quality in sectors with Infrastructure characteristics such as long-duration cash flows and inflation linked revenues.
GAM Star Technology	OEIC	Mark Hawtin
An equity fund investing globally in a diversified portfolio of technology related companies.
Hermes Impact Opportunities Equity	OEIC	Tim Crockford
The fund invests in companies globally addressing the unmet needs in society, through the development of products and services making a clear and measurable impact on society and the environment. Towards this end, the strategy offers a way to meaningfully support delivery on the widely agreed UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Impax Environmental Markets	OEIC	Jon Forster & Bruce Jenkyn-Jones
A fund that looks to deliver a portfolio of stocks that play into broad environmental themes that are chosen for their positive impact as well as the potential for compelling returns.
Polar Capital Biotechnology	OEIC	David Pinniger
A pure thematic fund that gives investors access to both large and small companies in the rapidly growing biotechnology space
Sarasin Food and Agricultural Opportunities	Unit Trust	Henry Boucher
A thematic fund that invests in companies globally which generates most of their revenues from sustainable food and agricultural themes.
Equities - UK
JOHCM UK Dynamic	OEIC	Alex Savvides
This fund focuses on investing in restructure, recovery and hidden growth stocks.
Liontrust Special Situations	OEIC	Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh
A long only UK equity growth fund consisting of high quality companies with strong balance sheets
Royal London Sustainable Leaders Trust	Unit Trust	Mike Fox
This is a UK Equity fund that will predominately invest in large cap stocks chosen for their positive impact on society and the environment.
Threadneedle UK Equity Income	OEIC	Richard Colwell
An equity fund investing predominately in large sized UK companies that in addition pays an income to investors.