Ariel Global Fund

John Rogers

Part of Ariel Investments

These are Ariel Global Fund's own holdings, not the firm's. Percentages are of the stock positions in its latest filing — the fund's cash and bonds are not included. This fund takes the patient value discipline that John W. Rogers Jr. built at his Chicago firm and stretches it across borders, buying undervalued quality businesses in the United States and abroad, in developed and emerging markets alike. Where the firm's best-known funds have long concentrated on smaller American companies, this one reaches for larger, established franchises wherever they are headquartered, so a single portfolio can hold a blue-chip American retailer and a European manufacturer. The managers look for what they call quality businesses trading at a discount, then hold them for years rather than trade around them.\n\nThe fund was launched on December 30, 2011, when Rogers was running the firm he had founded alone in Chicago at age 24. It is managed today by Henry Mallari-D'Auria, the firm's chief investment officer for global and emerging markets equities, who has led the fund since 2023, alongside fellow portfolio managers Ted Mann and Vivian Lubrano. It is one of the firm's newer and broader vehicles, born of Rogers' conviction that the same slow-and-steady discipline he learned as a boy—his father gave him dividend-paying stocks instead of birthday presents—could work on companies a world away from home.