Investing in cash flow generating global sustainable innovations
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
Long-term growth of your investment.
The investment team believes that high quality companies with dominant market positions, underpinned by powerful intangible assets, can generate attractive returns over the long term.
We invest in businesses, not a ticker. We believe the largest potential value exists in cash flow generating, innovation-driven businesses making earth a more sustainable place for future generations.
We also believe in ‘responsible capitalism’ — capitalism in which stakeholder interests are largely aligned with shareholder interests, and profit maximization is directly proportional to human value maximisation.
WHO WE ARE
GreatBear began operations when Mr. Saptarshi Das shifted base back from London, UK to India in 2015. The essence of GreatBear is built on the cognizance that investing is not just an act but a way of life.
GreatBear brings to the fore, in every act of its investment operations, simple life principles of prudence, humility, continuous learning, hard work, deep research, patience, and foremost, persistence.
We want to allocate capital to those companies which display similar attributes, have sustainable innovation, and with very high shareholder alignment.
We think long term and do extensive on-ground due diligence to identify opportunities.
Stewardship is a word that means taking care of something. It’s overseeing something on behalf of someone else and acting in a way that keeps the owner’s best interests at heart.
When you entrust GreatBear with your capital to invest for your future, we take stewardship of your investment — and so it is our duty to look after it with the utmost care.
When it comes to investments, there may be short-term ups and downs in the markets from time to time. But our responsibility is to help your investment grow over time, while supporting long-term benefits for the economy, the environment, and society more broadly.
We broadly follow a natural ESG framework and avoid sin stocks.
— Saptarshi Das, CFA, Portfolio ManagerPRINCIPLES
We will always operate a culture of true partnership. Our investor clients will be our partners and our fortunes will always be directly proportional to theirs. Most of our personal wealth will also be invested along with them.
Our effort is to survive the vicissitudes of financial markets and economic conditions and not collide head-on with it. Our intention is to make decent returns for our investors, not enter a roulette game together.
We are not in the business of buying into a company just to sell it later. We would like to grow our wealth with the fortunes of a good company held long term.
We will take immediate action when we have made an error about the prospects of the business because of error in information processing, new information or plain simple oversight.
We will be always fully transparent about our operations. Each investor, however small or large, has equal right to all information and service.
We will always communicate the bad news first. Good news can always wait. If there are no suitable capital allocations, we will happily use money market instruments to wait.
We will never enter into agreements with third parties which have incentives misaligned with the incentives of our investors however strong or fair the incentive might be.
We want us to be a happy bunch of people, both our investors and the management team. We will treat everyone with dignity, respect and care in all our dealings.
INVESTMENT APPROACH
We invest with a global remit in companies which have cash flow generating innovative businesses and significant ‘moat’ in what they do.
Companies in our portfolio will typically be market leaders in their respective niches with a long runway left in their innovation cycle.
High quality companies with dominant market positions, underpinned by powerful intangible assets — brands, networks, intellectual property — can compound value over decades.
GreatBear is a long-only investor. We feel that market irrationality about the price of a business may have no upper bound — we don’t particularly like that exposure.
We look at a business with a private equity approach. Buying stock is essentially an opportunity for us to grow with the fortunes of a company. Our time frame for analysis is never less than 5 years.
Effort to be broadly correct than precisely wrong.
Capital allocation is our main job.
PERFORMANCE
PORTFOLIO
| # | Stock | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA | ~11% |
| 2 | Alphabet | ~9% |
| 3 | Microsoft | ~7% |
| 4 | Apple | ~7% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase | ~6% |
| 6 | L’Oreal | ~5% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms | ~5% |
| 8 | Visa | ~4% |
| 9 | Aon PLC | ~4% |
| 10 | Hermes | ~4% |
| Sector | Weight |
|---|---|
| Technology | ~51% |
| Consumer Discretionary | ~15% |
| Financials | ~13% |
| Industrials | ~13% |
| Pharmaceuticals | ~4% |
| Real Estate | ~4% |
The portfolio is concentrated and conviction-driven — the top 10 positions span technology, financials, consumer brands, and industrials.
Holdings are unified by dominant market positions, powerful intangible assets (brands, networks, IP), strong free cash flow generation, and long innovation runways.
LEADERSHIP
GreatBear Capital — Private Wealth Management for HNI entrepreneurs and family offices. Discretionary fund advisory across India equity and global strategies.
Octopus Investments ($7 Bn AUM), FQS Capital, Visiongain Global — London, UK. Portfolio management of a $75 Mn absolute return fund. Overseeing $300–500 Mn allocation to Emerging and Asian markets.
Masters in Management — Imperial College London
Mechanical Engineering — Gujarat University, India
TERMS
| Minimum Investment | $1,000,000 |
| AUM Fee | 1.5% |
| Performance Fee | 20% |
| Hurdle Rate | 8% |
| High Watermark | Yes |
| Minimum Investment | $5,000,000 |
| AUM Fee | 1.5% |
| Performance Fee | 20% |
| Hurdle Rate | 8% |
| High Watermark | Yes |
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Stock investments are subject to market risks. Please read the IPS information and other related documents carefully before investing. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Please consider your specific investment requirements before choosing an advisor, or designing a portfolio that suits your needs. The value of investments can go down in value as well as up, so you could get back less than you invest.