The firm promotes stringent and innovative corporate governance and corporate social responsibility guidelines within all the companies in which it and its partners invest. In the spirit of its sister firm Stern Value Management, SSCP encourages its investee companies to let their employees become partners in their ventures, taking less fixed pay and more profit sharing in the entities in which they work. This allows for wider merit-based reward systems to unlock superlative shareholder returns. 

In some cases, SSCP will employ Stern Value Management to implement such value-oriented performance and management systems since research shows that EVA clients outperform their peers by wide margins, as value generation becomes the singular focus. Stern Value Management’s EVA value management has been implemented at over 800 firms globally. This framework provides managers and employees, in some cases down to the “shop floor”, with a simple, yet comprehensive variable-pay compensation programme that allows them to think and act like owners, without having to own shares. 

The geographic focus of the firm is mainly developing countries in Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. These regions are the global growth zones and share many common characteristics; namely significant requirements for capital, developing markets with major demands for basic goods and services, poor governance systems and an aspiration for applying and using proven first world technology and processes. These regions, however, require creative solutions much different from those applied in the developed world and it is here that SSCP seeks to provide maximum impact for its investee companies.