If you’re looking for growth, then a good place to find it is among the smaller companies universe. That’s why Montgomery has decided to launch a new small companies fund focused on businesses outside the ASX100. This article is designed to share some information for would-be investors.

Total Addressable Market (TAM) is a concept used by management and investors to define the maximum market opportunity that is available to a business or a company.

“Our favorite stock holding period is forever” Warren Buffett once mused. On the surface this might sound at odds with the adage of buy low and sell high, given the absence of any selling. It’s worth exploring what Buffett meant, and the circumstances in which it might make sense to follow this piece of advice.

The small-cap universe (outside the ASX100) is vast and varied, comprising around 2,000 companies operating across a broad array of industries and ranging in size from just a few million dollars in market value to multiple billions.

   In this week’s video insight Stuart provides commentary on one of the issues we will be monitoring this reporting season. After a fairly brutal confession season, analyst forecasts for earnings per share growth from the industrial stocks (excluding financials) in FY2019 has been reduced markedly. Find out why potential risk lies is in the guidance statements.

As you likely know, short selling is a trading strategy that involves borrowing and then selling shares in a business, with the aim of buying them back and returning them when the share price falls. What you may not realise is that it’s possible to take advantage when other investors short sell a stock.

Being successful as an investors requires finding and capitalising on inefficiencies in the market. Perhaps the biggest source of market inefficiency remains the human being – optimism or pessimism – leaving mispriced securities in our wake.

Investing is a commitment to a lifetime of learning. In an ever-evolving world, there are endless opportunities to improve your understanding of any subject.

In assessing the value of a company, the market tends to focus almost exclusively on the outlook for earnings growth. While obviously important, this ignores other variables that are equally relevant in determining whether a stock represents a good investment from both a quality and a valuation perspective.

  In this week’s video insight Andreas shares our valuation framework for assessing a company. Our framework is based on the concept of intrinsic value, where we form a view of what a business is worth and then compare that valuation to what the market is prepared to pay.

It is everyone’s favourite time of year, and for those not in financial services, I am not referring to the peak of winter, I am referring to 30 June. Across the Montgomery suite of strategies, some of our actively managed equity funds will look to pay a distribution come 30 June.

Investing often requires the forecasting of variables such as revenues and earnings. Every forecast is subject to (often immense) uncertainty, and the vicissitudes of the future can throw even the most well-thought out estimate far off the mark.