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Altrinsic Global Advisors
John Hock founded Altrinsic in 2000 after a decade starting as an analyst at Merrill Lynch.
Altrinsic Global Advisors
John Hock founded Altrinsic in 2000 after a decade starting as an analyst at Merrill Lynch. He witnessed the opening of Eastern European and Chinese markets and the bursting of Japan’s bubble. John DeVita joined from First Eagle in July 2000, adding experience from Jean-Marie Eveillard’s global value shop. The firm was built to endure generational shifts in investing. Altrinsic pursues an absolute-value, concentrated equity approach — it describes its method as 'a private equity approach to public equities.' The firm targets company-specific and industry-level change, seeking behavioral and analytical inefficiencies. Its strategies cover global equity, international equity, and emerging markets opportunities. The team is deeply embedded in industry ecosystems and leverages cross-border networks to source proprietary deal flow. The firm operates from three offices: Stamford, Connecticut; Toronto; and Sydney. It markets to institutional allocators, emphasizing partnership and co-investment alignment through substantial insider ownership ('we eat our own cooking'). Altrinsic publishes quarterly commentaries on its Perspectives blog, including notes on Japan and Taiwan. The firm's culture stresses humility, candor, and continuous improvement. Altrinsic’s structural differentiator is its deliberate independence from short-term market cycles. It was founded as a contrarian bet against the crowd during the peak of value investing skepticism and has not deviated from a concentrated, long-horizon, fundamental research model. This positions the firm as an alternative to passive or factor-based equity managers, offering a pairing of deep operational diligence with public market liquidity.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2000
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Stamford
Corporate office
Stamford, CT, United States
Additional offices
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Sydney, Australia
Principals
John Hock
Founder
John DeVita
Joined July 2000
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Altrinsic Global Advisors?
John Hock founded the firm and remains active. John DeVita joined in July 2000 and is a key investment principal. The broader team is described as highly experienced, with diverse backgrounds and a culture of creative, unconventional thinking (per firm website).
How does Altrinsic source proprietary deal flow?
Altrinsic leverages deep industry ecosystem immersion, global cross-border perspectives, and extensive networks to identify opportunities arising from change at the company, industry, and macro levels. It uses disciplined bottom-up fundamental research to uncover behavioral and analytical inefficiencies (per firm website).
Is Altrinsic structured as a single family office or an asset manager?
Altrinsic is an independent registered investment adviser operating as an asset manager. It serves institutional clients, including pension funds, endowments, and foundations, not a single family. The firm emphasizes partnership and long-term client relationships (per firm website).
Does Altrinsic participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
Altrinsic manages separate accounts and commingled funds focused on public equities. It takes long-term concentrated positions in publicly traded companies — a 'private equity approach to public equities' — rather than engaging in direct private company investments or fund-of-funds commitments (per firm website).
What investment stages does Altrinsic typically target?
Altrinsic invests in publicly traded equities globally, across all market capitalizations. It targets companies undergoing structural change, where behavioral and analytical inefficiencies present opportunities. It does not specify a stage preference, but its approach is oriented toward long-term business ownership (per firm website).
Which sectors does Altrinsic explicitly avoid?
Altrinsic does not publicly disclose sectors it avoids. Its portfolio is value-oriented and may avoid high-growth, low-cash-flow sectors, but the firm has not published a negative screen (per website analysis).
Where does the underlying wealth come from at Altrinsic?
Altrinsic is an employee-owned investment firm. It does not manage capital for a single wealthy family; its capital comes from institutional clients and internal partners. Wealth origin of founders or principals is not publicly disclosed (per firm website).
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