Merchant West Investments

🏅 27th Annual Raging Bull Awards Winner 🏅 For the Best South African General Equity Fund on a Risk-Adjusted Basis over 5 years. 🏅 Founded in 2012, Merchant West Investments (formerly known as Counterpoint Asset Management) is a multi-strategy asset management business that places the highest priority on the stewardship of clients’ assets. We carefully select the areas of investment that provide a competitive advantage, delivering excellent outcomes for our clients across a variety of investment strategies. Our research and investment framework, our way of thinking, use of data and the way in which we interpret publicly available information are some of the elements that set us apart from our peers. Our investment philosophy is centred around the discovery and understanding of new technologies, resulting in our strengthened ability to respond to the opportunities and threats posed by societal evolution. Continuous learning and sharing knowledge are fundamental components of our robust environment. We are focused on providing our clients with transparency, innovative skills, knowledge, and expertise. The Merchant West Investments’ research and investment framework enables the delivery of risk-adjusted real returns across the asset class spectrum whilst safeguarding our client's investments from out-sized risks. We assess every security trading below its fair value against the broad macro environment to ensure that it remains attractive given the current circumstances and various factors at play in the market. Our approach is also behavioural. We deeply analyse and respond to the behavioural biases of market participants in general. Our disciplined approach, applied within our research and investment framework, offers a compelling risk-adjusted version of value investing that represents an evolution of multi-strategy investing that is highly relevant today.