Stewart Investors | Long-term equity investors in high-quality companies

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Important Notice

FundRock NZ is proposing certain changes to the Stewart Investors Worldwide Leaders Fund (the "Fund"). Effective on or around 30 May 2026, the Fund will change to the FSSA Global Emerging Markets Focus Fund.

The Investor Notice is available on the FundRock NZ website and contains further information on this change, including how this will affect the Fund's investment objective, strategy, and fees.

If you have any questions, please contact your BDM.

Long-term equity investors in high-quality companies

Sustainable development - a driver of returns

We are a small team of passionate investors managing, on behalf of our clients, investment portfolios with a focus on high-quality companies that are well positioned to contribute to, and benefit from, sustainable development.

We believe that fund management has a social purpose, encouraging a savings culture around long-term investment. Our philosophy of careful stewardship is in the best interests of clients and should protect capital over the long term.

We invest over the long term across four regions: Asia, Global Emerging Markets, the Indian Subcontinent and Worldwide.

Latest news and insights from Stewart Investors

Slow has all the power: why we invest alongside long-term owners

By rejecting short-termism and thinking in generational terms, Asia’s family-led and founder-owned companies are built for long-term resilience.

19 September 2025
Trip report: Putting the Philippines on the map

Stewart Investors visits one of Asia’ fastest-growing economies to check on its progress at first hand and to meet some of the companies that are contributing to and benefiting from its development.

02 September 2025
Corporate governance: one size does not fit all

What the world’s differing approaches to tipping, giving the thumbs-up and taking off your shoes can tell investors about corporate governance.

01 September 2025

How we invest

Our job is to invest our clients’ capital in high-quality companies with strong management teams that are well positioned to contribute to, and benefit from, sustainable development.

Insights

Latest articles, research and reports from Stewart Investors.

We're in it for the long term

We manage investment portfolios on behalf of our clients over the long term and have held shares in some companies for over 20 years.

We launched our first investment strategy in 1988.

For over three decades we have applied the same investment philosophy consistently across our investment strategies.

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Global Emerging Markets Leaders Sustainability strategy

Portfolio Explorer

Portfolio Explorer tells the stories of the companies we invest in. The company profiles have been written by our own team so that you can see why they believe that the companies they invest in are making the world a better place.

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