Nifty Fifty or not, there’s value in concentrated growth

Stocks have to be in the “top quartile” for value (that is, bottom quartile for price) before the manager will research them.

The outcome is a portfolio which averages about 30 stocks.

The firm’s global fund has a return of 2.4 per cent since its December 2005 inception, compared with the MSCI index return of minus 4.8 per cent. The fund’s three-year outperformance of the index is 9.4 per cent and one year (to December last) is 12.2 per cent.

 

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As the Magnificent Seven fade, CFS looks further afield for returns

Colonial First State chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage says a shift away from reliance on US mega-cap tech stocks is reshaping portfolio resilience, with emerging markets, private debt and catastrophe bonds helping to drive returns across the portfolio.

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