Astron Corporation Limited (ATR.ASX) Interview
November 18, 2024
Rob Hay shares Collins St Asset Management’s insights into Astron Corporation Limited (ATR.ASX) on ausbiz (recorded 6th of November 2024).
0% Fixed management fees. Performance fees only.
13.94% p.a. annualised net return since inception in 2016.
The Collins St Value Fund is:
The Collins St Value fund has delivered a 13.94% p.a. net return since inception in February 2016.
This performance has seen the Collins St Value Fund consistently rank in the top 10% of its peer group over the medium to long term (on both a gross and net basis) as measured by independent research consultants.
Inception Date | February 2016 |
|---|---|
Collins St Value Fund Annualised return | 13.94% p.a |
ASX 200 Accumulation Index | 10.13% p.a |
Collins St Value Fund Value Add | 3.81% p.a |
Our investment style can be best described as “active value investing, with willingness to consider contrarian ideas.”
Our philosophy follows some of the modern era’s investing greats including: Sir John Templeton, Ben Graham, Peter Lynch, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet and Anthony Bolton. Each of these great investors have proven over time that, not only does a value investing approach make intuitive sense, but that it can equally be highly profitable.
Learn more about our key investment principles here or watch the video below to learn more about our philosophy.
We conduct deep, bottom up research on companies that seek to provide genuine insights into the merits of an opportunity in a way that others are yet to fully recognise. In doing so, we’ll look closely at the financial metrics of the business, but even closer at the track record of management and the views of key stakeholders within the businesses broader operating environment.
We are active, relentless and inquisitive. This sees us spending a lot of time ‘in the field’ because we believe that quite simply, great investment ideas aren’t found by staring at a computer screen.
We don’t seek to be ‘all things to all people’ and would prefer to focus our research efforts only on those ideas with the best prospect of success.
The strength of this approach is what leads us to be both unconstrained and high conviction in the way we construct portfolios.
The fund charges ZERO fixed management fees. With performance only fees, we only benefit when our clients do. It’s that simple, and it’s that fair.
As a consequence, we are genuinely incentivised to preserve your capital. Who else who claims on capital preservation is actually prepared to forgo 100% of their revenue in months where the unit prices decline?
Moreover, we are also genuinely incentivised to grow your wealth rather than simply grow our funds under management. Superior returns are impossible to achieve when managing large pools of money as the ability to be flexible, nimble and ‘fly under the radar’ are diminished. We are boutique by design and intend to stay that way.
| Traditional Managed Fund | Collins St Value Fund |
| Yes. Fixed management fees irrespective of the outcome. | No. Zero fixed management fees. |
| Traditional Managed Fund | Collins St Value Fund |
Yes. Fixed management fees | Yes. A performance fee |
| Traditional Managed Fund | Collins St Value Fund |
| No – a bigger fund means bigger fees! | Yes – fund returns decline as the size of the fund increases. |
| Traditional Managed Fund | Collins St Value Fund |
| No. Fees are paid regardless of portfolio outcomes. | Yes. Losses must be recouped for fees to be payable. |
| Traditional Managed Fund | Collins St Value Fund |
| Yes – why would the Manager risk doing anything too different? | No. Absolute return focussed. Losing stocks need to be aggressively filtered out. |
Rob Hay shares Collins St Asset Management’s insights into Astron Corporation Limited (ATR.ASX) on ausbiz (recorded 6th of November 2024).
Rob Hay shares Collins St Asset Management’s insights into the ASX listed Tesoro Gold (TSO.ASX) on ausbiz (recorded 19th of June 2024).
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ROB HAY
Head of Distribution & Investor Relations
M: 0423 345 975
E: rhay@csvf.com.au
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