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18 Dec 2020 - Performance Report: Montgomery Small Companies Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date18 December 2020
ManagerMontgomery Investment Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameMontgomery Small Companies Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateNovember 2020
Latest Return6.12%
Latest 6 Months18.33%
Latest 12 Months21.11%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception18.06%
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 rose +6.12% in November, taking 12-month performance to +21.11% vs the ASX200 Accumulation Index's -1.98%. Since inception in October 2019, the Fund has returned +18.06% p.a. vs the Index's +0.75%. The Fund's up-capture and down-capture ratios (since inception), 145.4% and 88.7% respectively, highlight its capacity to significantly outperform in both rising and falling markets.

The largest positive contributors for November included Corporate Travel Management, NRW Holdings and Webjet. Montgomery noted the arrival of better than expected vaccine news drove a strong surge in COVID-19 impacted stocks, such as CTD and WEB in the travel sector, supporting an earnings recovery scenario as travel barriers are removed and demand returns over the foreseeable future.

The largest detractors included Adairs, Marley Spoon and Bapcor. All three had been COVID-19 winners and as such became sources of profits over the month as the market rotated towards economic reopening stories.
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