Independent and owner-managed, the firm’s aim has always been to offer exemplary performance and client service. All Artemis’ staff share these two precepts – and the same flair and enthusiasm for fund management.

Our managers invest in their own and their colleagues’ funds, which aligns their interests directly with those of our investors.

Artemis is a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and currently has 25 partners who are fund managers and other key individuals at the firm. Affiliated Managers Group Inc (AMG), together with the firm’s management team, including current and former staff and related persons, own 100% of the equity of the business. This is a financial partnership; AMG takes a share of the revenues produced by Artemis, but does not get involved in the day-to-day running of the business. We believe that an LLP is the ideal structure for an investment management business. It means we are free from the (often) short-term demands of shareholders and can focus entirely on trying to meet or exceed our clients’ needs.

Our growth since 2002 has been organic, with no mergers or acquisitions, and we are committed to remaining independent. Our aim is likewise unchanged: superior, long-term returns for the people whose money we manage.

Our sole objective as investors is to outperform the market and produce long-term returns for the people whose money we manage.

We do so while keeping an eye on absolute, as well as relative, returns - although we are well aware that in periods of crisis, it is not always possible for our funds to avoid losing value. When this happens, we, and our investors, need to be patient. It seldom makes sense to reduce market exposures after share prices have fallen. Equally, when markets are rising, we believe that there are always opportunities for active stock-pickers to outperform.

We have a history of recruiting and training fund managers with proven skills – and we have an excellent record of retaining fund managers. Our managers have the freedom to invest without the constraints of a single house style or process.

Yet Artemis’ policy of co-investment, and our structure as a partnership, give our managers every reason to share their views with each other. They are open, communicative and always keen to debate investment ideas.

We try to keep bureaucracy to a minimum, allowing our managers to concentrate on what they do best – selecting the right stocks or bonds for our clients. Our investment teams have a collegiate approach. Drawing on each other's experience and knowledge, sharing ideas and insights between teams, specialist units operate with support from the wider business towards a common goal.

How we relate to the world beyond fund management is part of Artemis’ distinctive culture.

We recognise that as long term investors we have an overriding responsibility to act with care, diligence and integrity in everything we do.

The Artemis partnership is deeply aware of our broader responsibility to society and aspires to make a positive difference to the environment and communities in which we work and live. Artemis encourages employees’ participation in a number of initiatives and has a Charitable Foundation which supports a broad range of causes.