We are GQG Partners LLC, a boutique investment management firm primarily providing global,
international, emerging markets and U.S. equity investment portfolios, primarily for institutional clients.
We are a registered investment adviser based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and were formed in 2016. We
and/or our affiliates have offices in Seattle, Washington, New York, New York, London, United Kingdom
Sydney, Australia, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
We are committed to providing exceptional investment services to our clients and are focused on building
a long-term investment boutique with an investment-centered culture and a commitment to alignment
and transparency within our team and with our clients.
We are a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of GQG Partners Inc., a
Delaware corporation that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The majority owner of GQG
Partners Inc. is QVFT, LLC, which is controlled by Rajiv Jain, our Chairman and Chief Investment Officer.
We provide investment advisory and sub-advisory services on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis
to a range of clients. We offer several different equity investment strategies. Subject to the client-driven
restrictions described in the paragraphs below, all portfolios in a given strategy are managed similarly to
limit the dispersion of returns across client portfolios. Please see Item 8. Methods of Analysis,
Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss, below, for more information about our strategies and related
investment risks, which clients should review carefully before deciding to engage us. We cannot
guarantee that a client’s investment objectives will be achieved, and we do not guarantee the future
performance of any client’s account or any specific level of performance, the success of any investment
decision or strategy, or the success of the overall management of any account. The investment decisions
we make for clients are subject to risks, and investment decisions will not always be profitable.
A client may customize its investments with investment guidelines, restrictions, and limitations
(“guidelines”). If accepted by GQG, these client-driven guidelines are typically set forth in the investment
management agreement between us and our clients and will apply until changed or withdrawn by the
client. Client guidelines may affect the investment performance and diversification of the account that
may cause the account’s performance to differ from the performance of other similarly managed
accounts in the strategy without such restrictions.
We provide (or expect to provide) investment advisory services in connection with various managed
account programs, including, but not limited to, “wrap” account programs, “dual contract” programs
and/or “model-portfolio” programs sponsored, organized and/or administered by third-party sponsors.
A wrap account
program is an advisory program under which a fee not based directly upon transactions
in a client’s account is charged for investment advisory services and the execution of client transactions.
In some instances, a client may enter into both an advisory agreement with both the sponsor firm and
GQG directly as an investment adviser (a “dual contract” arrangement). Under managed account
programs, the program sponsor typically provides certain services to program clients, including, for
example, assisting the client in selecting one or more investment advisers and/or investment strategies
based on the client’s investment objective, brokerage, custody and/or other account services.
Investment advisers, such as GQG, typically provide portfolio management services, which may include
providing a model portfolio to the program sponsor. With respect to securities purchased and sold for
wrap account program participants and dual contract clients, GQG generally manages such accounts on
a discretionary basis in a manner that is similar to the manner in which we manage discretionary
institutional accounts pursuing the same investment strategy. In model-portfolio programs, GQG
typically provides a model portfolio to the program sponsor, and the program sponsor exercises
investment discretion to execute trades on behalf of program participants. Please see Item 12.
Brokerage Practices, below, for information relating to our trade aggregation, allocation, and order
practices.
The services GQG provides to managed account programs may differ from the services provided to other
clients. For example, wrap fee and similar program accounts may have fewer securities holdings and less
frequent trading due to cash availability, smaller account sizes, relatively high cash balance minimums,
supply of suitable securities, and less ability for customization. Strategies, restrictions, and guidelines
may vary from program to program.
Managed account program fees, trading procedures and minimums vary and are generally determined
by the program sponsor. Program sponsors typically pay a portion of the program fee paid by the client
to GQG for the investment advisory services that we provide in connection with the particular program,
although in certain programs, the client may pay GQG directly. A detailed description of fees, services
and other features of the specific managed account programs in which GQG participates should be
obtained from the sponsor of the program. In general, GQG relies on the program sponsor to determine
that the program is suitable for its clients, and GQG does not evaluate whether the program participant
would be better off paying for brokerage execution and investment advice separately.
As of December 31, 2023, we managed approximately $119 billion in client assets on a discretionary
basis and $1 billion on a non-discretionary basis.