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23 Jun 2021 - Performance Report: Montgomery Small Companies Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date23 June 2021
ManagerMontgomery Investment Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameMontgomery Small Companies Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateMay 2021
Latest Return1.66%
Latest 6 Months16.73%
Latest 12 Months38.13%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception23.25%
Inception Date20 September 2019
FUM (millions)AU$94.4
Fund OverviewThe Montgomery Small Companies Fund aims to outperform the S&P/ ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index over a rolling five-year period, typically investing in a portfolio of 30 to 50 companies listed on the ASX (outside the top 100) and NZX. The Investment Manager seeks high quality, undervalued small and emerging companies with strong growth potential.

Montgomery Lucent, a joint venture between Lucent Capital Partners and Montgomery Investment Management, is the investment manager of the Fund. Lucent Capital Partners is owned by its founders Gary Rollo and Dominic Rose. Gary and Dominic have worked together for three years as at February 2020 and have a combined three decades of portfolio management and equities research experience.

The manager is able to invest up to 10% of the portfolio in pre-IPO opportunities. They search for companies likely to benefit from secular trends, industry change and with substantial competitive advantages. Cash typically ranges around 10%.
Manager CommentsThe Montgomery Small Companies Fund returned +1.66% in May. Over the past 12 months the fund has returned +38.13%, compared with the index, which returned +28.23%. Since inception in September 2019, the fund has returned +23.25% per annum, a difference of +15.81% vs the index which has returned +7.44% over the same period.

Over the past 12 months, the fund's volatility has been 12.49% compared with the index's volatility of 10.43%, and since inception the fund's volatility has been 24.82% vs the index's volatility of 21.53%.

The fund's Sharpe ratio has ranged from a high of 2.67 over the most recent 12 months to a low of 0.96 since inception. The fund's Sortino ratio (which excludes volatility in positive months) vs the index has ranged from a maximum of 12.14 over the most recent 12 months, to a low of 1.36 since inception.

The fund has an up-capture ratio of 150.17% since inception and 124.35% over the past 12 months.
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