MFG Select Infrastructure Strategy

Portfolio of 20 to 40 infrastructure companies selected on a valuation-driven basis from a strictly defined universe

To achieve attractive risk adjusted returns over the medium to long-term;

While reducing the risk of permanent capital loss.

MFG Asset Management believes that the infrastructure asset class, when appropriately defined, is characterised by monopoly-like assets that face reliable demand and enjoy predictable cashflows. As a result, MFG Asset Management has established proprietary classification criteria to appropriately categorise securities as investment grade infrastructure and thus potentially eligible for inclusion in its portfolios, or otherwise. Potential investments that meet these criteria are expected to achieve strong underlying financial performance over medium-to long-term timeframes, which should translate into reliable, inflation-linked investment returns.

MFG Asset Management believes that an appropriately structured portfolio of 20 to 40 investments can provide sufficient diversification to ensure that investors are not overly correlated to any single company, industry-specific or macroeconomic risk.

Determining the investment universe
Determining the investment universe
Assessing each potential investment's quality and intrinsic value
Assessing each potential investment's quality and intrinsic value
Allocating capital to the securities within the investment universe in an appropriate manner
Allocating capital to the securities within the investment universe in an appropriate manner

Only securities that meet MFG Asset Management’s proprietary infrastructure classification criteria are included in the Select Strategy’s investable universe. In order for a security to meet this definition, its underlying business must provide a service that is essential to the efficient functioning of a community, while generating cash flows that are not subject to material external risks (such as commodity prices). Furthermore, MFG Asset Management evaluates other criteria, such as gearing levels, sovereign risk, regulatory risk and reporting transparency, which, if failed, will result in exclusion from the investment universe.

MFG Asset Management believes that by excluding businesses that fail to meet these criteria, the universe consists purely of companies that enjoy reliable demand and generate predictable cash flows.

Each security in the investment universe is analysed in detail. This analysis includes evaluations of a company’s external environment, business’s specific issues, historical and forecast financial performance and its assessed valuation.

Portfolio construction is driven by the results of qualitative stock analysis, valuation, formal risk controls and factor risk management. The portfolio construction process focuses on long-term value, rather than index-relative positioning.

The resulting portfolio provides investors with an appropriately diversified exposure to securities that meet MFG Asset Management’s infrastructure classification criteria, while giving consideration to each security’s quality and its price relative to its assessed intrinsic value.

Separately Managed Account

Investors can access the Select Infrastructure Strategy via a separately managed account (subject to conditions being met) or via the following investment vehicle.

MFG Select Infrastructure Fund

MFG Asset Management acts as the sub-adviser to the Frontier MFG Select Infrastructure Fund.

For more information regarding this fund please contact Frontier Funds.