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  • 09 Sep 2019

River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap - Overview


River UK Micro Cap Limited (RMMC:LON) | 0 0 0.0% | Mkt Cap: 49.2m


  • Kepler | Trust Intelligence
    • William Heathcoat Amory

    • 5 pages


 

River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap (RMMC) aims to achieve long-term capital growth from investment in a diversified portfolio of UK micro-cap companies, typically comprising those with a market cap of less than £100 million at the time of purchase. The company launched in December 2014, with George Ensor having taken over as manager from Philip Rodrigs in 2018. George looks to utilise an active, bottom-up strategy looking to add real value in the micro-cap end of the market via in-depth analysis where coverage is sparse. Like all managers at River & Mercantile, George follows the group’s PVT (Potential, Valuation, Timing) investment approach (see portfolio section). As of the end of June 2019 the portfolio is relatively concentrated, with only 43 holdings, but diversified by size and sector. Only financials have a weighting greater than 20%, and even the largest sector overweights, oil & gas and health care are relatively low at +6.5% and +5.4% respectively. Performance has been varied since George took over the portfolio in a difficult period for UK small cap managers. Initially, performance was strong and for much of 2018 the trust outperformed the benchmark and peers alike. However the trust saw its returns hit hard in Q4, ruining what might have otherwise been a strong start for the new manager. Since then, to 28 August 2019, the trust has returned 6.6% marginally underperforming the benchmark (6.9%) and trailing the AIC peer group (9.5%). As with most UK focused trusts, the past few years have seen the discount widen dramatically – although in this case, exacerbated by the change in manager in early 2018. Over the past two years the trust has reached a premium of close to 17%, and a discount of over 20%. Currently the trust is trading at a discount of around 20%, considerably wider than the sector average of 9.2%.
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River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap - Overview


River UK Micro Cap Limited (RMMC:LON) | 0 0 0.0% | Mkt Cap: 49.2m


  • Published: 09 Sep 2019
  • Author: William Heathcoat Amory
  • Pages: 5
  • Kepler | Trust Intelligence


River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap (RMMC) aims to achieve long-term capital growth from investment in a diversified portfolio of UK micro-cap companies, typically comprising those with a market cap of less than £100 million at the time of purchase. The company launched in December 2014, with George Ensor having taken over as manager from Philip Rodrigs in 2018. George looks to utilise an active, bottom-up strategy looking to add real value in the micro-cap end of the market via in-depth analysis where coverage is sparse. Like all managers at River & Mercantile, George follows the group’s PVT (Potential, Valuation, Timing) investment approach (see portfolio section). As of the end of June 2019 the portfolio is relatively concentrated, with only 43 holdings, but diversified by size and sector. Only financials have a weighting greater than 20%, and even the largest sector overweights, oil & gas and health care are relatively low at +6.5% and +5.4% respectively. Performance has been varied since George took over the portfolio in a difficult period for UK small cap managers. Initially, performance was strong and for much of 2018 the trust outperformed the benchmark and peers alike. However the trust saw its returns hit hard in Q4, ruining what might have otherwise been a strong start for the new manager. Since then, to 28 August 2019, the trust has returned 6.6% marginally underperforming the benchmark (6.9%) and trailing the AIC peer group (9.5%). As with most UK focused trusts, the past few years have seen the discount widen dramatically – although in this case, exacerbated by the change in manager in early 2018. Over the past two years the trust has reached a premium of close to 17%, and a discount of over 20%. Currently the trust is trading at a discount of around 20%, considerably wider than the sector average of 9.2%.

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