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Emerging Growth Strategy

Emerging Growth Strategy (EGS)

Overview

The Emerging Growth Strategy (EGS) provides institutional investors with exposure to companies that are more likely to be entering the growth or expansion stages of development. These companies are the growth engines of the economy and provide exposure to different thematics than large caps. Investors in the strategy receive the following:

Overview

Proven management.
  • Outperformers in Microcaps over 20 years
  • 11 Years of running EGS strategy
  • Invested in 54 unlisted situations and 35 liquidity events

Overview

Full universe, best ideas portfolio.
  • All industries
  • All stages of development
  • Listed and unlisted companies

Overview

Best practice fee alignment.
  • Twin performance hurdles to beat

Overview

Full capability support.
  • Private markets capability
  • Valuation expertise

Performance.

Our robust stock selection process demonstrated by our 11.0% p.a. excess returns (gross of fees) over the last 20 years.

11.0% p.a excess return over 11 years 1,2

  1. Microcap Index or Acorn Capital  / SIRCA Microcap Index is an accumulation index that measures the return of the ex-25- universe on the ASX. The index data set extends back 20 years for constituent data and 50 years for performance data. 
  2. Annual and Absolute returns were calculated from January 2009 to December 2020.

Why acorn?

"We focus on the areas others find more difficult or struggle to price, and this is where the greatest inefficiencies and richest opportunities lie."

Robert Routley, Acorn Capital CEO

Opportunity Spectrum.

The EGS investment universe of emerging companies covers the investment spectrum across the early, expansion and mature growth stages of development. This matches the funding sources provided by venture capital funds, microcap funds and small/midcap funds. 

Investment process.

The Emerging Companies sector is particularly inefficient and capturing this requires particularly rigorous company level analysis…the key to investing successfully in the sector is getting the stage of development right. 

Investment Style.

The EGS is agnostic to liquidity provided it is appropriately valued. Acorn Capital’s approach to valuation in unlisted investments has been developed over 11 years.

Get in touch today.

For further information

For further information on the Fund contact Dan McAleer.

Investment Team.

Robert Routley

Chief Executive Officer

HEAD OF PRIVATE MARKETS

Matthew Sheehan

Investment Director

LEGAL COUNSEL AND COMPANY SECRETARY

Paul Palumbo

PORTFOLIO MANAGER

HEALTHCARE & INDUSTRIALS

Ben Dalling

INVESTMENT DIRECTOR

FINANCIALS & INDUSTRIALS

Rick Squire

PORTFOLIO MANAGER

MATERIALS

Robert Bruce

PORTFOLIO MANAGER

CONSUMER, TECH, TELCO

Experience: 9 / 26

IMPORTANT NOTICE
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