Three top-notch stocks to own come rain or shine

Forget about growth, says professional investor Ilan Chaitowitz, focus on the underlying quality of the businesses. Here, he picks three of his favourite high quality stocks at attractive valuations.

Each week, a professional investor tells us where he'd put his money. This week: Ilan Chaitowitz of the Nomura Global High Conviction Fund picks three favourites.

Over the last five years classic value investors have had a torrid time. The MSCI World Value Index has underperformed its growth equivalent by 4% per year. Conventional wisdom has tied this trend to ever-lower long-term interest rates, which have kept the weakest businesses solvent and thus stopped the traditional capital cycle from buoying the strongest. This has weighed on returns in capital-intensive industries, which are where classic value stocks tend to be found. Meanwhile, major tech firms such as Amazon and Netflix seem capable of strong growth regardless of the economic backdrop.

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Ilan Chaitowiz is manager of the Nomura Global High Conviction Fund