Stafford today and tomorrow
We deliver sustainable returns to our clients through actively investing, managing and realising capital in the real assets and private markets sectors. Founded in 2000, our team of 85 people manages over USD 8bn of assets from our 9 offices around the world. We have a long history of innovative and pioneering investment strategies. This is core to our entrepreneurial, client-centric culture.
Stafford in a nutshell*
USD 8.1bn
Total AuM
USD 4.6bn
Real Assets AuM
USD 3.5bn
Private Markets AuM
150+
Institutional Investors across the globe
NET ZERO
Signatory of the Net Zero Managers Intitiative
2000
Year Founded
80+
Professionals
9
Offices
100%
Partnership owned
PRI & SDG
Signatory since 2010 & measuring SDGs
* Data as of September 30, 2020.
Our purpose
To create confidence in a better future
From our employees, to the pension funds and insurance companies we serve, to the community we work in - we all face challenges as to what the future will bring. We aim to be a source of confidence on what will come, through transparency and clarity in the workplace, through the delivery of dependable returns and through investing in an environment in which future generations can thrive. Our purpose is to create confidence in a better future.
Our mission
To deliver dependable and sustainable returns from alternative investments that meet the needs of our clients, over the long term
To foster a working environment that is honest and open. One that allows talented people to grow and positively influence the world around them.
To pursue excellence through ambition, creativity, and capability
To be responsible and sustainable with regards to our communities and the environment
Working to create confidence in a better future for all stakeholders
Our values
Our purpose and mission are underpinned by our core values which we believe are fundamental to creating confidence in a better future and delivering strong, sustainable returns that meet the needs of our stakeholders. These include:
Honesty
Acting with transparency, truthfulness and sincerity so that we deserve the trust of our stakeholders
Ambition
With the vision, drive and courage to set challenging goals and the highest standards
Creativity
Developing imaginative approaches to find and profit from opportunity, where others cannot
Capability
Using all of our extensive experience and skill to meet targets, achieve goals and get the job done
We take pride in building long term collaborative partnerships with our investors.
We call this collaboration an "unlimited partnership".
Our future
We are proud of our responsible investment journey to this point. Our Responsible Investment Policy provides guidance and we have invested in dedicated resources to facilitate its implementation across business lines. However, the journey does not stop here as we strive to form a partnership with the fund managers we invest with and act as their advisor in developing their ESG frameworks.
In the short term we will aim to facilitate and capture relevant ESG data to be able to monitor our portfolios and report to our clients in a consistent way across business lines. We are working to understand the carbon emissions of our entire portfolio so we can put in place a program to reduce our carbon exposure and reach our stated commitment of net zero carbon emissions.
Over time we will deepen our understanding of how both the activities of our company and those of our investment portfolio impact our environment – using the broadest definition of environment. We will work to reduce any negative impacts, and proactively look to meet our investment returns while also contributing positively to our environment.