EQ Model Portfolio: Best Ideas – Adventurous

This portfolio maintains a bias towards higher volatility investments, with up to 95% invested in equity funds. It aims to diversify risk by investing across regions, and enhance returns through its asset allocation strategy and fund selections.

Current Portfolio

	Fund type	Managed by
Alternatives - Directional Trading
JPMorgan Global Macro Opportunities	OEIC	James Elliot, Talib Sheikh & Shrenick Shah
The fund should be viewed as an Absolute Return vehicle, attempting to generate a return of cash + 7% by identifying and investing in macroeconomic themes globally that are likely to drive asset prices.
MontLake DUNN WMA Institutional UCITS Fund	OEIC	Dr Daniel Dunn & Dr Roberto Osorio
A 100% systematic trend following program that is adaptive to the market risk environment and the trend characteristics prevalent at any time. The portfolio encompasses global financial, energy, metal and agriculture futures markets.
Alternatives - Long / Short
Man GLG Innovation Equity	OEIC	Priya Kodeeswaran
GLG Innovation Alpha is a global equity market neutral fund with a focus on companies that are either innovating or rapidly changing. Often these companies will see significant dispersion of predicted earnings by the analyst community.
Bonds - Flexible Bonds
Janus Henderson Strategic Bond	OEIC	John Pattullo and Jenna Barnard
A fixed income fund that invests in higher yielding assets including high yield bonds, investment grade bonds, government bonds, preference shares and other bonds.
Bonds - Government
Vanguard US Government Bond Index	OEIC	Gregory Davis
A fund that looks to track the performance of US government bonds
Bonds - Relative Value
Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Macro Bond	SICAV	Iain Lindsay & Jonathan Xiong
The fund invests in global fixed income markets, focused mostly on developed market interest rates and currencies. The investment philosophy is focused on macroeconomic fundamentals and takes both long and short positions across markets.
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.
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.
Equities - US
Vanguard US Equity Index	OEIC	Gerard O’Reilly
A fund that looks to track the performance of companies of all sizes in the United States
Mixed - Mixed Investment
Troy Trojan	OEIC	Sebastian Lyon
This is a multi-asset fund that will invest in a range of asset classes from traditional equities (UK and overseas), fixed income instruments, collective investment schemes and money market instruments.