For the asset managers at ARTICO Partners, it’s not about being the biggest – it’s about being the best. There are six partners on the company roster, an agile team of senior-level professionals with impressive performance histories. The partners are significant co-investors in all of their funds. This means they have "skin in the game" ensuring that their interests are fully aligned with those of their investors. The investment approach is simple and compelling: invest in good companies. ARTICO has developed a selection process to identify companies with outstanding characteristics. The partners start with ARTICO’s proprietary database, containing over 25 years of data on more than 30,000 companies across the world. The firm then applies its methodology to assess the companies based on their growth rate, profitability, financial health, and stock market evaluation. Only companies with high scores across all four criteria are selected, creating diversified portfolios of sound, global companies, with a higher probability to outperform. It is exactly this combination of strong fundamental characteristics that makes ARTICO's portfolios unique. ARTICO manages three funds with the same systematic approach covering Emerging Markets, Global Small Caps and Developed Markets. In addition, ARTICO also offers risk-mitigated funds, to preserve client's capital across a range of scenarios. In recognition of its exemplary approach to investment, the CFI.co judging panel presents ARTICO Partners with the 2018 award for Best Quantitative Equity Asset Management Team (Switzerland).