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17 Feb 2021 - Performance Report: Montgomery Small Companies Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date17 February 2021
ManagerMontgomery Investment Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameMontgomery Small Companies Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateJanuary 2021
Latest Return-1.08%
Latest 6 Months15.64%
Latest 12 Months20.99%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception17.83%
Inception Date20 September 2019
FUM (millions)AU$64.2
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 risen +20.99% over the past 12 months vs the ASX200 Accumulation Index's -3.11%. Since inception in October 2019, the Fund has returned +17.83% p.a. vs the Index's +1.80%. The Fund's up-capture and down-capture ratios (since inception), 147.4% and 88.7% respectively, highlight its capacity to outperform regardless of the market's direction.

The Fund returned -1.08% in January. The largest positive contributors included Bingo Industries, Sezzle and Uniti Group. Key detractors included Aeris Resources, Centuria Capital Group and Western Areas. The portfolio's top completed holdings (i.e. those that the Fund holds but which Montgomery aren't actively buying or selling at the time of writing their Jan 2021 report) included Alliance Aviation Services, City Chic Collective, Ingenia Communities Group, Macquarie Telecom Group and Uniti Group.

Relative to the Fund's benchmark (ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index), the portfolio ended the month overweight Industrials, Communication Services, IT, Consumer Discretionary and Real Estate, and underweight Energy, Materials, Consumer Staples, Financials and Health Care. By market capitalisation, the portfolio had greatest exposure to companies with a market cap greater than $1bn.
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