"We believe that active management focused on fundamental research and bottom-up security selection applied by properly motivated teams of skilled and experienced people will add value over time."
Value Opportunity StrategyRecent Quarter Attribution
Investment Philosophy:
Temporary information and liquidity inefficiencies in the small and mid capitalization universes provide the active manager with opportunities to invest in companies at valuations materially below their long-term intrinsic value.
Investment Objectives:
Achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in small and mid capitalization companies with a focus on absolute return.
Portfolio Construction:
Portfolio is constructed using a bottom-up process, with each individual position targeting a 50% return potential over a business cycle. Positions become source of funds for new investments once they are within 10% of their estimated intrinsic value.
Portfolio consists of companies with the following characteristics:
Valuation Methodology:
Intrinsic value is estimated based on the fundamental economic characteristics of the company or its respective assets. The companies fundamental characteristics are used to estimate a valuation range for each company based on the following valuation methodologies:
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