About Aria International Advantage Fund 

The Fund focuses on extraordinary businesses. These companies meet specific standards related to the business itself, the people who manage it, and the discipline they demonstrate when it comes to reinvesting free cash flow.

  • The Aria International Advantage Fund is a registered retail managed fund that offers investors the opportunity to invest in a fund which specialises in investing in outstanding listed companies that trade on international share markets.

  • Headquartered in Sydney, the Fund has a focus on high barrier to entry industries such as infrastructure, utilities, branded consumer products, aerospace, media content and mission critical technology and software.

  • It seeks to invest in businesses that, in our view, compound shareholder capital at above-average rates of return

  • The Fund follows a scalable and transparent strategy

The Fund’s Criteria for Portfolio Inclusion

BUSINESS

  • Enduring, predictable high return on equity and free cash flow generation
  • Identifiable, sustainable competitive advantages
  • Pricing power in excess of costs, inflation protection
  • Easy to understand
  • Typically avoid return-regulated industries
  • Strong balance sheets

MANAGEMENT

  • Management with exceptional skill, integrity, and passion
  • Treat shareholders like partners
  • Indifferent to short-term pressure
  • Lean corporate culture fosters independence, accountability

CAPITAL ALLOCATION

  • Pattern of disciplined reinvestment
  • Extensive opportunities to reinvest FCF organically or through acquisitions

Our Strategy is guided by the goal of protecting and growing your capital over the long term.

  • Independence

    As an independent fund manager, we are free to concentrate on the interests of our clients, colleagues, communities and the companies in which we invest. This allows the independence of mind that is crucial to successful investment performance.

  • Long-term thinking

    To think long term means to resist the temptations of short-term fashion in favour of sustainable decision making. Both our investments and our businesses have a long-term focus, to the lasting benefit of all of our stakeholders.

  • Partnership

    Our mission is to build long-lasting partnerships with our clients by exceeding their expectations for investment performance and service. The notion of partnership embodies respect, trust and interdependence over the long term.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES