Overview
Overview of the Firm
Trinity Street Asset Management LLP (“Trinity Street”, the “firm”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is an
investment adviser registered with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as
amended (the “Advisers Act”). Trinity Street was founded as Bruce Nelson Capital in 2003 and
registered with the SEC as an investment adviser on March 22, 2010. Trinity Street is based in
London, United Kingdom, where it has been authorised and regulated by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority (or its predecessor regulator, the Financial Services Authority) since 2003.
Trinity Street is a limited liability partnership which was established in 2002 under UK law. The
controlling partner is Bruce Nelson Cayman Ltd. Richard Bruce together with his wife Claire
Bruce own the majority of the shares of Bruce Nelson Cayman Ltd., and Edward Bell together
with his wife Catherine Bell also own shares of Bruce Nelson Cayman Ltd. Richard Bruce and
Edward Bell serve on Trinity Street’s managing board and are responsible for the strategic
decisions with respect to Trinity Street.
Trinity Street’s strategic objective seeks to deliver consistent excess returns over the long term
to a mainly institutional client base that is equally long-term in its thinking and strategic
positioning. Trinity Street’s client portfolios will ordinarily be invested in global exchange-listed
equity securities.
Our advisory business can primarily be described as follows:
1. Our philosophy: We focus our research on companies experiencing periods of change
because we believe this is where disruptions to normal market pricing mechanisms are
most likely to be found. We seek to identify pricing anomalies over the long term. We
believe the key advantage to investing in these types of companies is that “change” is a
constant in business and markets and is ever-present, although where change takes
place is constantly moving. We believe that “Under-Recognised Change” arises
irrespective of whether value, growth or other trends are generally impacting markets
and can therefore be seen as a consistent source of alpha.
2. Specialisation: We engage in global and EAFE equity investing
by managing portfolios
generally consisting of 30 to 40 stocks. Unlike many other portfolio managers who may
seek to balance the risk of their global or EAFE equity strategy underperforming by
launching alternative strategies, our firm-wide strategy relies on global and EAFE equity
investing.
3. Our people: Each of our portfolio managers has considerable experience in global
investing within highly regarded financial institutions. Trinity Street is the product of
deep and intensive thought about why large institutions tend to underperform and what
can be done about it. One of the most important aspects of this is creating an
environment in which a team of experienced people can work together to seek to create
a coherent, alpha-generating equity portfolio from a large equity universe.
Investment Services
Trinity Street provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to its clients,
including private investment funds, a series of a CIT and separately managed accounts set up for
investment by institutional investors, such as employee benefit plans, endowment funds,
foundations and religious organizations as well as individual investors. In performing
investment advisory services for its clients, Trinity Street acts as a fiduciary and has a duty to
act in the best interests of the client.
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The funds are not tailored to the needs of any particular private fund investor. Investments are
made in accordance with the stated investment objectives, strategies, restrictions and
guidelines found in the relevant fund’s confidential private offering memorandum. For the
separately managed account clients, Trinity Street makes investments in accordance with
mutually agreed upon written investment guidelines. Trinity Street has established procedures
and controls to help ensure compliance with each client’s investment guidelines and any client-
imposed restrictions.
Trinity Street reserves the right to reject any account not consistent with its investment
philosophy.
Assets under Management
As of May 31, 2023, Trinity Street managed approximately $ 5,912,394,385 in regulatory assets
under management on a discretionary basis.