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How marathon runners can go the distance

A company's journey to becoming a "marathon runner" is often driven by its unique strengths rather than its sector or region. Comgest's analysts identify the distinguishing factors of marathon runners through extensive research. In this paper, Wolfgang Fickus, Product Specialist for Europe Equities, explains how companies with traits like strong free cash generation, smart capital allocation, diversification, global reach, crisis resilience, and a unique corporate culture can achieve marathon runner status and sustain growth for generations.

SEEKING THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH : LINDY'S LAW & QUALITY GROWTH INVESTING

Although ageing is a fact of life for people, some quality companies have spanned decades, if not centuries, and remain in their prime — or even stronger. Comgest's Wolfgang Fickus highlights Lindy's Law, which explains why these "marathon runners" get better with age, and why they're the bedrock for the compounding benefit captured in our quality growth portfolios.

WHEN GROWTH STALLS: ANTICIPATING A GROWTH INVESTOR'S GREATEST CHALLENGE

Growth stocks naturally tend to command premium valuations to reflect their attractive earnings profile. While growth lasts, all is well. Any unexpected halt, however, can be painful as investor expectations are reset. Using Tesco as an example, this White Paper attempts to demonstrate how long-term investors can spot a future stall in order to sell out in time.

THE QUALITIES OF “QUALITY” AND THE USE OF ESG IN INVESTING

What is quality at its core? What ESG methods are there to measure it? Is “quality" simply in the eyes of the beholder?

THE FAIR-VALUE FOLLY: THE DANGER OF VALUATION-CENTRIC PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

As ‘quality-growth’ investors we apply a long-term-oriented investment approach, which relies on companies’ fundamental value creation, i.e., earnings development, as the determinant share-price driver.

The Long-Term Growth Conundrum

Unraveling the mystery of the "long-term growth conundrum” requires thinking in a dynamic rather than static way in order to understand that value, while potentially unstable, can evolve and increase overtime.

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