“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.” – Norbet Platt
September 2024 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The bull market continues. Equity markets in the main posted strongly positive returns, but masked some heightened volatility in [...]
June 2024 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund retreated by 2.3%, 3.0% and 5.3% in EUR, USD and AUD terms. Longer term performance is provided [...]
March 2024 | Quarterly Report
Introduction You’ve heard it before. The index is extremely polarised, with a select few stocks driving returns. Recently, we can [...]
December 2023 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Despite wars in Europe and the Middle East, escalating tensions in Taiwan, recent attacks in the Red Sea, [...]
September 2023 | Quarterly Report
Introduction It’s not rocket science… The US 10-year bond yield rose from 3.8% to 4.6% during the quarter. It [...]
June 2023 | Quarterly Report
Introduction We continue to be amazed at the strength of the equity markets. Rising interest rates, war in Europe, heightened [...]
March 2023 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The equity markets started the year with a strong January but this largely tempered in February. Then, quite perversely [...]
December 2022 | Quarterly Report
Introduction What an eventful year. The pandemic became endemic, a relentless war has unfolded, a new multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme [...]
September 2022 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Although the EUR share class and the Australian Fund managed solid returns (4.6% and 4.8% respectively), they would [...]
June 2022 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Six months ago we wrote about the crazy times we live in when, amongst other things, a currency [...]
March 2022 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Well, as if a global pandemic was not enough, the world has now witnessed the outbreak of a brutal [...]
December 2021 | Quarterly Report
Introduction A solid quarter to round out a pretty good year. The Fund’s returns were 6.0% for the EUR [...]
September 2021 | Quarterly Report
Introduction After a substantial sell off in September, the Fund’s net returns turned negative for the quarter. They were [...]
June 2021 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund’s net returns for the quarter were 2.2% for the EUR class and 3.2% for the USD [...]
March 2021 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Another strong quarter, with the Fund’s net returns being 12.2% for the EUR class and 7.7% for the [...]
December 2020 | Quarterly Report
Introduction A strong quarter to finish an extraordinary year. The Fund’s returns were 16.8% for the EUR class and [...]
September 2020 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund posted a return of 1.2% for the EUR class1 . The Australian Fund posted a similar [...]
June 2020 | Quarterly Report
Introduction Let’s not beat around the bush: the returns over the quarter were exceptional and unlikely to be duplicated [...]
March 2020 | Quarterly Report
Introduction In these troubled times, we hope this finds our readers in good health and good spirits. Lives lost [...]
December 2019 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund posted quite strong returns over the quarter. The Euro share class was up 5.7%, and the [...]
September 2019 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund posted a return of 2.8%1 for the quarter, and has been pretty flat since its [...]
June 2019 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Australian Fund posted a modest return of 0.2%1 for the quarter - masking some wild swings [...]
March 2019 | Quarterly Report
Introduction The Fund returned 4.2%1 for the quarter. Ordinarily, we would happily sign off straight away for similar [...]
December 2018 | Half Year Report
Introduction There was no hiding the carnage on global equity markets over the last few months. Despite our high [...]
September 2018 | Quarterly Report
Introduction After eight consecutive months of positive performance, the Fund suffered a 5.2% setback in September resulting in a [...]
June 2018 | Annual Report
Introduction Welcome to the ‘new-look’ Alluvium Global Fund report. With this updated format we have endeavoured to provide commentary [...]
March 2018 | Quarterly Report
Snapshot The Fund posted a net return of 2.7%1 over the March quarter. This positive result, when most [...]
December 2017 | Half Year Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Fund (Fund) posted a net return of 0.8% over the December quarter.1 The strategy [...]
More secrets… not all dirty
I would like to expand on the “Dirty Secrets” published a couple of weeks back.1 [...]
September 2017 | Quarterly Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Fund (Fund) posted a net return of 4.6% over the September quarter.1 An offsetting [...]
FAANGs Too Expensive? Consider the WAMITs
Much has been written about the FAANGs - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (Alphabet)1 . [...]
June 2017 | Annual Report
Snapshot Welcome to the inaugural annual report for the Alluvium Global Fund (Fund). The Fund posted a net return [...]
We don’t break rules, we create new ones!
Retailing is hard. The evidence is incontrovertible. In Australia alone, just look back over the last [...]
March 2017 | Quarterly Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Fund (Fund) posted a net loss of 1.1% over the March quarter1 . A significant factor [...]
December 2016 | Half Year Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Fund (Fund) posted a net return of 17.6% over the six months ended December 20161 [...]
Musings with mates: process versus outcomes, efficient markets…
Sometimes friends like to discuss the general market conditions. Recently one of my mates commented that things must [...]
Our “comfort” test: another reason why we are not “Quant”
We would like to share with you a new item on our investment checklist. We refer to [...]
What we do when another of our holding plummets on release of earnings
It would be nice to write about a different topic! Once again, we avoid the instinctive “Type [...]
What we do when one of our largest holdings falls 13.5% upon releasing earnings
Don’t panic! It is understandable to be disappointed, but irrational to act without any analysis. On many [...]
September 2016 | Quarterly Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Fund (Fund) posted a net return of 6.1% over the September quarter1 . The return [...]
We are not “Quant”; we apply common sense
As part of the initial investing activities the Fund established a position in Target1 (the US listed [...]
June 2016 | Half Year Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Strategy (Strategy) posted a net loss of 2.9% over the six months to 30 June [...]
Why do I appear to favour small caps?
I have a basic premise: the larger the pond in which I fish, the more fish available, [...]
Are you comfortable?
It was early 2013 when I really started contemplating investment options with some seriousness. I reflected on [...]
Distractions, Dentist, DOS, De-cluttering…
When developing the Strategy, I built a single spreadsheet which encompassed both portfolio positions and performance measurement. [...]
December 2015 | Annual Report
Snapshot The Alluvium Global Strategy (Strategy) posted a net return of 16.5% over the 2015 calendar year1 . The [...]