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1 Dec 2020 - Performance Report: Montgomery Small Companies Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date01 December 2020
ManagerMontgomery Investment Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameMontgomery Small Companies Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateOctober 2020
Latest Return-1.08%
Latest 6 Months24.60%
Latest 12 Months15.16%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception13.20%
Inception Date20 September 2019
FUM (millions)AU$46.1
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 has returned +15.16% over the past 12 months vs the ASX200 Accumulation Index's -8.15%. The Fund's up-capture and down-capture ratios for performance since inception in October 2019, 175.9% and 88.7% respectively, highlight its capacity to significantly outperform in both rising and falling markets.

The Fund returned -1.08% in October. The largest positive contributors included Adairs, Bapcor and Pendal. Key detractors included City Chic Collective, Corporate Travel Management and Megaport.

Montgomery have been steadily growing the Fund's exposure to those areas of the economy that they believe will benefit from a domestic re-opening and from sustained stimulus, moving some capital from some of those structural growth winners that have driven the Fund's outperformance to date. Today, Montgomery see 'stronger for longer' as likely for domestic consumption beneficiaries - retail, auto, hospitality, domestic tourism and travel.
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