small caps

With reporting season already revealing earnings misses, valuation pullbacks are creating opportunities in high-quality small caps, according to DNR Capital’s Sam Twidale. Investors should look through short-term risk and select from sectors where fear and uncertainty prompt mispricings.

After posting a 16.6 per cent average annual return since 2014 and 31.8 per cent in FY20/21, the Cyan 3G Fund lost 35.8 per cent in FY21/22. So how does it feel, as a fund manager, when things head south in dramatic fashion? The fund’s co-founder, Dean Fergie, speaks to The Inside Network’s James Dunn.

Small cap investing has considerable upside, which the long-term returns data show. But many small caps are less than quality grade, and the managers picking them can be rife with bias.

Shifting market dynamics mean some of the investment themes that worked in recent years are set to give way to new opportunities. Man Group’s Andrew Swan and Prime Value’s Richard Ivers recently discussed the promising outlook for Asia and small-cap stocks, where it’s all about fundamentals.

Valuing companies and their potential for growth is a slippery, convoluted process. Quality is a key metric, according to Loomis Sayles, but other factors play an equal role.

The hunger for sustainable investing continues apace with Perennial winning a $100 million mandate from Mercer Investments for its Better Future small- and mid-cap strategy.

This time last year, BWX Limited was a small-cap fundie favourite, growing a portfolio of skincare brands including Sukin, Nourished Life, Andalou Naturals, Flora & Fauna and Mineral Fusion. Today, it’s a pariah. Here are three lessons every investor can take away from the downfall of BWX.

The Australian market is in a world of its own, pushing ahead with a strong post-pandemic-led recovery while a rebound of the global economy is edging closer, and looks like it will come over the coming quarters. The team at DNR Capital Australian Emerging Companies Fund continues to select quality growth stocks for its Australian…

A large amount of capital has moved into so called “concept stocks” in recent months, as retail investors seek to capitalise on popular ‘themes’. Before we discuss this phenomenon, we first must define a concept stock. In short, a concept stock is a company like a start-up, that is in its early conceptual stages of…

The Australian exchange-traded fund (ETF) market continues to grow at a phenomenal rate, after inflows for January this year pushed the total ETF market to a new record high of $96.8 billion in total capitalisation. Over the last year the ETF market has grown by 47%, or $30.8 billion, as ETF providers have been busy…