Core Stability Growth

The Three-Pillar Framework

Bruegger Invest’s Core Stability Growth accounts integrate three complementary pillars to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns across economic regimes: analogue world (physical) equities provide inflation-hedging ballast and real capital preservation grounded in mass & energy fundamentals; resilient compounders offer cycle-resilient quality and predictable compounding; and emerging leaders drive asymmetric upside through structural growth and cash-flow inflections. This disciplined blend preserves wealth in uncertain environments while capturing enduring long-term growth.

Core Pillar: Analogue World Equities

• Inflation & currency protection: Analogue world equities — focused on physical production of mass (industrial materials, metals, commodities) and energy (resources, power generation, infrastructure) — historically rise with commodity/energy prices during inflation, preserving real purchasing power and hedging monetary debasement.
• Portfolio ballast & low correlation: Acts as a defensive anchor with reduced volatility, offering diversification benefits and lower drawdowns when growth-oriented equities struggle during rising rates or inflationary periods.
• Valuation discipline & margin of safety: Often trades at attractive multiples during commodity cycles, backed by strong asset-heavy balance sheets and real asset value relative to market cap.
• Real capital preservation: Focuses on high-quality owners of tangible assets for long-term resilience and compounding, critical in uncertain or inflationary environments.
• Strategic asymmetry: Provides outsized protection precisely when conventional equity strategies face headwinds, enhancing overall regime-resilient performance (typical weighting: 25–40%).

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Stability Pillar: Resilient Compounders

• Durable competitive advantages: High-quality businesses with strong economic moats, predictable and expanding cash flows, and consistent returns on invested capital (ROIC).
• Cycle-resilient quality: Superior margin durability and free cash flow conversion through economic cycles, providing defensive characteristics and lower volatility.
• Reliable compounding engine: Focus on companies that reinvest capital efficiently at high returns, delivering steady, compounding growth with minimal reliance on leverage.
• Risk-adjusted outperformance: Emphasizes margin of safety, capital efficiency, and resilience in downturns—ideal as the quality anchor in balanced portfolios.
• Regime-agnostic stability: Performs well across bull, bear, and sideways markets; typical weighting: 35–50% in Core Stability Growth accounts.

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Growth Pillar: Emerging Leaders

• Structural growth tailwinds: Companies operating in large, expanding addressable markets (TAM) with powerful secular trends driving revenue acceleration.
• Cash-flow inflection & scalability: Rapidly improving free cash flow margins, operating leverage, and network effects as the business scales efficiently.
• Asymmetric upside potential: High-conviction positions in emerging leaders with uncapped long-term return potential and strong forward cash generation power.
• Active skill expression: Disciplined selection and timing around cash-flow inflections, competitive positioning, and valuation discipline to capture outsized alpha.
• Strategic growth engine: Adds the highest expected returns to the portfolio while quality filters limit downside; typical weighting: 20–35% in Core Stability Growth accounts.

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