The fund is managed by three experienced portfolio managers: Tim Guinness, founder of Guinness Global Investors with over 35 years of investment experience and degrees from Cambridge University and MIT's Sloan School; Will Riley, who joined in 2007 after six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Chartered Accountant with a Master's from Cambridge; and Jonathan Waghorn, who joined in 2013 and co-manages both the Global Energy Fund and Sustainable Energy Fund. The management team combines deep sector expertise with rigorous analytical frameworks, implementing both macro and micro investment approaches. Guinness Asset Management Ltd manages $6.28 billion in total assets and operates under FCA regulation in the UK. The firm emphasizes concentrated portfolio construction with typically 30 best ideas rather than benchmark-following approaches. Recent policy changes provide greater flexibility with 25-75 stock targets and reduced management fees across fund ranges.

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The Guinness Global Energy Fund seeks capital growth through exposure to global energy markets, operating on the belief that the world's population is growing at a rate of 1% per year and is projected to rise over the next 20 years by 1.5 billion people, with over 90% of this growth coming from developing countries. The investment strategy is built on the principle that easily extractable oil and gas assets remain scarce, and as they get scarcer, they will trade at higher prices. Stock selection is driven 50% by top-down macro views and 50% by bottom-up stock analysis. The portfolio comprises 30 'best ideas' and does not follow any benchmark in its sub-sector weights. The fund maintains 90% invested in companies with market capitalizations over US $1 billion and positions energy companies as a useful long-term inflation hedge given that energy prices are a significant driver of inflation.

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