Trans-Tasman Fund
About the Trans-Tasman Fund
The Castle Point Trans-Tasman Fund is designed to follow the New Zealand market, represented by the S&P/NZX 50 index.
The Fund invests in New Zealand and Australian listed companies and is benchmarked to the S&P/NZX 50 Index (including imputation credits).
The performance objective of the Fund is to outperform the benchmark over rolling five-year periods after all fees (and other expenses) but before tax
This fund also has the option for investors to receive a quarterly distribution.
Read all about the strategy...Performance Overview
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Recommended Investment Timeframe
Minimum 5 years
Objective
S&P/NZX50 Index
Minimum Initial Investment
$10,000
Minimum Additional Investment
$1,000
Distribution
Variable paid quarterly
Buy / Sell Spread
0.30% / 0.30% of each investment / redemption. Variable spread applies that will net buys and sells on the same day
Entry / Exit Fees
Nil
Management Fee
1.05% per annum, plus any applicable GST, which covers our management fee and normal operating expenses of the fund
Performance Fee
Nil
Fund Type
NZ Managed Investment Scheme (MIS). The fund is a Portfolio Investment Entity (“PIE”)
Supervisor
Public Trust
Auditor
PwC New Zealand
Administrator and Custodian
Apex Investment Administration (NZ) Ltd
Establishment Date
20th November 2018
Our Recognitions
Investment Strategy
We invest in company shares via the Share Market.
Investing is purchasing a company or asset that can generate and grow income over time. Speculating is purchasing something with no regard for its ability to generate income – just in the hope that its price will go up.
Shares are ownership portions of a company, and a company is a productive asset. So, when we consider investing in shares, we consider the underlying company’s ability to generate returns over time.
The share market (also known as the stock market) is like owning a house, only each day somebody new knocks on the door to offer you a new price for the house. Nothing about the house itself changes, but each day you are offered a different price, sometimes an extremely high price and sometimes an extremely low price. The same principle applies to the share market. It takes time for a company to change, yet that company’s share price can bounce around in the short-run to sometimes be extremely high and sometimes be extremely low.
These differences in price and underlying company value are what we take advantage of. We buy shares in companies when our analysis shows that the company’s share price does not accurately reflect the long-term value of the business, also known as its intrinsic value. The intrinsic value is based on our long-term view of the company’s future earnings.
S&P/NZX 50 Index
This is a portfolio of the 50 largest companies listed on the NZX stock exchange. The larger a company is, the larger its position, and vice versa.
The Trans-Tasman Fund is designed to follow this portfolio but generate higher returns over time
How the fund adds to the S&P/NZX 50 Index
The fund holds many of the shares that are in the index, but more of the ones we believe will do well (‘overweights’), and less of the ones we believe aren’t as good (‘underweights’). It also holds some shares that are not in the index that we think have the strongest potential to do well (‘overweights’).
How we choose our overweights
We look for companies with long-run prospects that are not reflected in their share price.
We believe this happens because the market is often short-term in its outlook, like what the company might earn next year rather than over the next five years.
We find the best investment opportunities fit into the following categories:
- Deep Value
- Value
- Mid-Cap Grower
- Moat
- Opportunistic
Deep Value
A Deep Value company has a share price that is lower than the value of shutting down its operation and selling all its assets/paying off its debt (its ‘liquidation value’), plus a margin of safety (an extra buffer of ‘cheapness’ to be safe). This means that if the company was to close and sell all its assets, the shareholders would actually receive more than selling its shares to the market.
These extremely low prices occur when the company has disappointed the market so badly, and for so long, that the market has forgotten the value of the company’s underlying assets.
NOTE: While we do not invest with the aim of liquidating assets to realise shareholder value, we get comfort from understanding the market value of assets along with the margin of safety.
Value
A Value company has gone through a period of disappointing performance, which could be a result of wider economic factors that the company has no control over, or poor decisions that were clearly wrong in hindsight. However, companies generally adapt and recover.
For a company to fall into this category, we need to be convinced that a turnaround is possible, which may require a change in management. The market (share price) won’t often reflect the turnaround until well after it has occurred but will eventually.
Mid-Cap Grower
Mid-Cap Growers are high-quality, profitable (often mid-sized) companies with substantial growth opportunities and excellent management in place. They have an effective innovation engine that keeps them competitive, along with a long-term strategy that continuously drives them forwards.
Moat
A Moat company has high barriers to entry, making it hard for others to compete and take market share from it. The high barriers to entry allow Moat companies to earn above-average returns for longer than many expect. Moats can include a combination of ownership of unique assets, brands, and networks, or having substantial benefits of scale and supplying products and services with high switching costs.
Opportunistic
An Opportunistic company is one that has many attractive qualities but falls outside our other categories. It may, for example, have the potential to produce substantial upside, but be quite an early-stage (i.e. riskier) company. Opportunistic positions will only ever make up a small allocation to the overall fund. They may start as a small allocation, but the idea is their upside means it may grow to be larger, sometimes quickly.
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