Richard Pitt

BlueAlpha is an active investor who follows a pragmatic investment approach and specializes in absolute return asset allocation strategies. The firm aims to achieve real long-term risk-adjusted capital growth, while preserving capital. They manage portfolios invested across asset classes with a primary focus on domestic securities and use derivatives such as index futures and options to reduce market risk. BlueAlpha bases asset allocation on macroeconomic research as well as market sentiment, and stock selection on fundamental analysis. They target companies with sound balance sheets, attractive dividend yields and solid business fundamentals.

Ranmore holds around 40-50 companies at any time and benchmark holdings do not influence them. Valuation is the primary driver to their stock selection. The firm holds stocks across global markets, sectors and sizes of companies – wherever they find value. They utilize a bottom-up, research driven stock picking methodology.