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About Us

About Us

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A proven investment team

A multi award-winning investment team with more than 25 years' heritage in Quality investing.

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Fundamental, high quality analysis

Our longstanding and disciplined investment process based on fundamental analysis and bottom-up stock selection allows us to identify the world's highest quality companies.

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A truly long-term approach

Identifying reasonably priced companies with strong fundamentals and allowing them time to compound has the potential to generate attractive shareholder returns.

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ESG integrated

Assessment of financially material ESG risks and opportunities is a key part of our investment process. We use our proprietary ESG scoring framework to evaluate relevant ESG factors for our investments.

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Active ownership

Direct and regular portfolio manager-led engagement is a hallmark of our bottom-up approach. Our size and long-term holding period means we have excellent access to company management.

Why Quality Investing?

Global Brands: 25th Anniversary

Planted for long-term investors seeking steady appreciation, our Global Brands has proven hardy and fruitful since the year 2000. Join us in commemorating 25 years of high quality investing.

Insights

Global Equity Observer
Exchanges: the quiet infrastructure behind modern markets

Morgan Stanley’s International Equity team discusses how exchanges have evolved into critical financial infrastructure, with resilient revenues and growing roles in data, clearing and market activity.

08-Jul-2026
Global Equity Observer
Video: The high stakes of cybersecurity

In the latest Global Equity Observer video, the International Equity Team explores why cybersecurity matters for companies and investors alike — and where they see both risks and opportunities.

05-Jun-2026
Global Equity Observer
What it takes for consumer brands to win in an AI era

The consumer industry has been transformed by greater transparency, digital distribution and lower barriers to entry. Now, AI looks set to accelerate these trends. While it may unlock efficiency gains, it could also challenge traditional brand power and intensify competition. Which companies are best positioned to adapt? The International Equity Team examines how AI may reshape the next phase of consumer markets.

18-May-2026
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Active Ownership

Active ownership focused on ESG risks and opportunities
material to the sustainability of returns.

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Stock Specific

  • Engagement on material, stock-specific issues
  • Informed by our investment research process, including our proprietary assessment frameworks
  • Forms part of the team's regular dialogue with management

2

Thematic

  • Engagement on material systemic or industry issues relevant to the companies and sectors we own
  • Useful for multi-company engagements

3

Proxy Voting

  • Forms an important part of our active ownership approach
  • Seeks to be consistent with our assessment of the specific ESG issues to companies' sustainability of returns on capital

Related Resources

Please find below the International Equity Team's ESG-related resources.

Article
Engage Autumn 2025

The latest edition of Engage, the International Equity Team’s semi-annual update on their ESG engagement activity.

15-Nov-2025

Any content presented herein are only indicative in nature, for information purposes only, are subject to changes and do not relate to any specific product. Should any specific product be offered to persons in Singapore, it is likely that any specific investment strategy that is adopted for the product will not follow in its entirety, the form of the investment strategies listed on the webpage.