We have refreshed our quality style screen for the first time since its inception in February this year. As before, the screen selects the 25 stocks exhibiting the highest quality characteristics according to our criteria from our universe of approx. 500 stocks and we have chosen 10 stocks to focus on. Since inception the screen has significantly outperformed the main small-cap index and marginally outperformed the microcap index. There was notable volatility around the UK general election, which is interesting as quality would usually be seen as a defensive style in large-caps. As expected, turnover of constituents is modest with only 9 leavers and joiners despite the extended time-scale since inception. We will refresh again in five to six months’ time.