About Centre

Centre Asset Management, LLC was established in 2006 on the principle that a merging of fundamental stock selection and quantitative portfolio construction provides the best opportunity for success in scalable, consistent portfolio management. In 2010, the firm entered into a strategic partnership with Sanlam International Investment Partners resulting in Sanlam making a majority equity investment into the firm. Centre serves as a sub-advisor to certain UK-distributed PSigma Asset Management funds, US-distributed Drexel Hamilton funds and Sanlam Asset Management (Ireland) Limited funds.

Centre is designed to combine the benefits of a boutique, entrepreneurial investment culture with the associated benefits from the distribution and operational support from its large Group investor and other partners. The firm is a fundamentally-driven specialist active asset manager, focused on American and Global equities in relative and absolute return products in sub-advisory mandates with financial institutions and professional investors.

Our investment approach is rooted in our differentiated Economic Value Added based investment analysis which is the competitive edge that yields a more accurate picture of intrinsic value. Our long experience within a disciplined framework focuses on the fundamentals of wealth creation/wealth destruction akin to the way a traditional, long-term focused corporate financier looking at all aspects of the business (operating condition, risk profile and valuation) would assess it. Many of the analytical foundations in our investment approach have been articulated in books and papers written or contributed to by Centre's founder, James Abate, some of which were adopted by the CFA Institute® candidate study programs.

In the shorter-term, market excursions from reality of corporate managements' ability to create or destroy wealth during a company's profit cycle provide investable opportunities. Our approach intends to capture excess returns once the stock mispricing converges with the company's true intrinsic value.

Stock selection in itself does not ensure risk-adjusted performance success and, hence, we integrate security selection with appropriate position sizing and, in absolute return oriented products, exposure management.