The Australian Growth Fund gives you access to invest in quality, growing Australian businesses. The Australian market is deeper and broader than in New Zealand, which provides numerous opportunities to invest in great businesses. Being such a broad market with so many investment opportunities means some companies are often poorly researched and not well understood by the market. The outcome of this is that high quality companies can trade below their inherent value. Our team making investment decisions are well informed and spend their time conducting their own research on this market.
There is a lot of diversity in the products and services that companies in the Australian market offer. Because of the population size,the growth path for Australian companies can be smoother than in New Zealand. This is important as it provides these companies a broader growth opportunity domestically, before they need to consider the challenging step of exporting their business model to chase growth.
** S&P/ASX Small Industrials Index (Inception to 31/1/2012), S&P ASX 300 Industrials ex top 20 70% hedged to NZD (1/2/2012 - 31/3/2015), S&P/ASX 200 70% hedged (1/4/2015 to now)
CSL Limited | 9.7% |
Wisetech Global Ltd. | 6.7% |
Carsales.Com Limited | 6.5% |
Cash | 0.8% |
Wisetech Global Ltd. » |
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32% Share Price Change | 2.1% Contribution to Return |
Nanosonics Limited |
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40% Share Price Change | 1.0% Contribution to Return |
CSL Limited » |
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8% Share Price Change | 0.9% Contribution to Return |
In the portfolio holdings below you will find a diverse range of companies. Some of these will be brands you know well, and others may be new to you. The companies we invest in range from banks and fast food brands, to companies in the healthcare and tech sectors.
In a pleasing result, the Australian Growth Fund rebounded +13.4% in July, strongly outpacing the +6.0% increase in the benchmark index. The stabilisation in interest rates, and central bank commentary that was less hawkish than expected was enough to relieve some market concerns and sparked the market rebound. The move in interest rates (the Australian 10yr government bond rate fell from 3.66% to 3.06% in the month) contributed strongly to the outperformance of growth companies in the month, also helping our portfolio.
Nanosonics (+40.2% in A$) rose strongly in the month, helped by the macro conditions discussed above. It also confirmed in late July that the transition of its distribution arrangement away from a 3rd party distributor in the US to its own sales team is largely complete and on track. In the announcement it also guided to higher revenue for the FY22 year than the market had anticipated.
oOH!Media (+3.3%) lagged the portfolio return as the market worried about the impact a potentially slowing domestic economy would have on advertising expenditure by companies. This near-term cyclical headwind does not in our view detract from oOH!Media’s longer term earnings potential as the largest outdoor advertising company in Australia.
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