Some of the main challenges facing the continent, what we gleaned from visiting over 45 companies, and ESG considerations that are front of mind for major European investment firms.

Highlights:

• Our thoughts on the prevailing macro concerns—e.g., inflation energy crisis
• "Collective corporate memory" and why the history of Europe is an important and unique context—particularly seen from a bottom-up perspective (e.g., Kuehne+Nagel, Lonza, Givaudan, SGS, Reckitt, Anglo American, Roche)
• Differentiation and operational effectiveness—what makes our European holdings competitive (e.g., Anglo American, Kuehne+Nagel)
• Germany's longer-term energy outlook and potential implications for energy transition and infrastructure in Europe (e.g., Iberdrola, Shell, Equinor)
• ESG conference takeaways—the importance (and difficulty) of parsing and aggregating unstructured data, particularly for social considerations, and how we incorporate this into our investment process