- Kempen
- Kempen Lux Global Small cap Fund Class I GBP
Kempen (Lux) Global Small-cap Fund - Class I GBP
Profile
The portfolio construction process involves a disciplined end to end framework initially utilizing proprietary in-house stock filters screening for high quality and attractively valued stocks. Thereafter, fundamental in-house research is carried out to identify high conviction investment ideas. The end result is a portfolio of approximately 60 - 90 stocks, well diversified across all regions and sectors
Management team
Performance per 2020-12-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2020-12-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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1 month | 4.6 % | 4.9 % |
3 months | 17.7 % | 17.1 % |
This year | 5.5 % | 12.4 % |
2017 | 17.1 % | 12.0 % |
2018 | -4.8 % | -8.5 % |
2019 | 19.5 % | 21.3 % |
1 year (on annual basis) | 5.5 % | 12.4 % |
3 years (on annual basis) i | 6.3 % | 7.6 % |
5 years (on annual basis) i | 15.5 % | 13.4 % |
Since inception (on annual basis) i | 12.9 % | 12.2 % |
Key figures
Total fund size | EUR 903.37 M 2020-12-31 |
Share class size | GBP 11.25 M 2020-12-31 |
Number of shares | 9,899 2020-12-31 |
Net Asset Value i | GBP 1,206.65 2021-01-27 |
Turnover rate | 51.86 % |
Morningstar rating â„¢ | |
Morningstar Analyst rating | Bronze |
Fund characteristics per 2020-12-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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Number of holdings | 62 | 4307 |
Dividend yield i | 2.40 % | 1.67 % |
Weighted average market capitalization i | EUR 2,872 M | EUR 3,317 M |
P/E ratio i | 16.23 | |
Active share i | 97.93 % |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Developments per 2020-12-31
Three top contributing stocks during the month of December were Sleep Number (+16%), Befesa (+19%) and West Fraser (+13%). Sleep Number's stock price was up 16% in December and ended the year up 66% in USD terms on top of the 55% return realized in 2019. We believe the reason for the stock price rally is mainly the anticipation of another strong quarter. As we wrote in October, we are increasingly excited by the quality of its product offering and the execution ability of its management team. Befesa shares benefited from a combination of strong momentum in its recycling capacity construction program in China as well as continued rising zinc prices which allows the company to extent its pricing hedges over a longer period of time, thus increasing earnings visibility. West Fraser benefited from continued strong demand for lumber in North America and consequently record high lumber prices. Furthermore, at the end of November, West Fraser announced the planned acquisition of Norbord, thereby creating a global leader in diversified wood products.
Negative contributors in December were Bed Bath & Beyond (-17%), Software AG (-8%), and Hudson Pacific Property (-9%). The share price of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) was down 17% in December making it the worst performer in our portfolio. BBBY is a turnaround story with a lot of upside if the turnaround proves to be successful. We are however in the early phase of this turnaround and the outcome is still uncertain. For that reason our portfolio position is relatively small. The whole setup makes BBBY a very volatile stock. In December the market started to discount a deceleration of BBBY's comparable store sales. Software AG's stock was down 7.5% in December. Besides a broker downgrade there was no company specific news around Software AG. The company is in the midst of the subscription transition, making revenues and growth more predictable going forward. However this transition comes along with short-term margin pressure. Financial analysts and investors are trying to guess whether 2020 or 2021 will be trough in margins. We tend to look longer-term and believe that the company is on track to meet its mid-term ambitions, also fuelled by strong bookings from partners like Microsoft and Adobe. If they achieve their goals we believe Software AG is undervalued on a stand-alone basis, leaving aside the massive undervaluation in comparison with other software companies. Hudson Pacific Property declined 9% in December due to uncertainty related to future office demand being replaced by working from home. We have reduced our overall office exposure in our portfolio at the end of Q3 2020. Our overall exposure to real estate is 9.3% of which 2.1% is exposed to offices on a look-through basis. The other real estate exposure is more diversified (residential, data centres, healthcare, industrial, self storage, hotels). Our exposure to retail real estate is just 0.1% on a look-through basis.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Performance per 2020-12-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2020-12-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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1 month | 4.6 % | 4.9 % |
3 months | 17.7 % | 17.1 % |
This year | 5.5 % | 12.4 % |
2017 | 17.1 % | 12.0 % |
2018 | -4.8 % | -8.5 % |
2019 | 19.5 % | 21.3 % |
1 year (on annual basis) | 5.5 % | 12.4 % |
3 years (on annual basis) i | 6.3 % | 7.6 % |
5 years (on annual basis) i | 15.5 % | 13.4 % |
Since inception (on annual basis) i | 12.9 % | 12.2 % |
Dividends
Distributing | No |
Risk analysis (ex post) per 2020-12-31
3 years | Since inception | |
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Maximum drawdown i | -30.68 % | -30.68 % |
Tracking error i | 5.70 % | 5.39 % |
Information ratio i | -0.24 | 0.13 |
Beta i | 1.08 |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Top 5 contribution (2020-12-31)
Contribution i | Performance i | |
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Sleep Number | 0.41 % | 15.28 % |
Befesa | 0.40 % | 18.49 % |
West Fraser Timber | 0.37 % | 13.31 % |
Western Forest Products | 0.35 % | 32.16 % |
Delek | 0.26 % | 18.16 % |
Bottom 5 contribution (2020-12-31)
Contribution i | Performance i | |
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Bed Bath & Beyond | -0.15 % | -17.01 % |
Software | -0.12 % | -7.59 % |
Hudson Pacific Properties | -0.09 % | -8.75 % |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | -0.08 % | -3.55 % |
Abercrombie & Fitch | -0.08 % | -3.72 % |
Geographic allocation (2020-12-31)
Top 10 holdings (2020-12-31)
Sector allocation (2020-12-31)
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Ongoing charges
Management fee i | 0.70 % |
Service fee i | 0.20 % |
Taxe d'abonnement i | 0.01 % |
Expected ongoing charges i | 0,91 % |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Share class details
Share class | I - GBP i |
Investor type | Institutional |
Distributing | No |
Benchmark i | MSCI World Small Cap Index |
Investment category | Small-caps |
Universum | Global Small- & Mid-caps |
Inception date | 2018-06-22 |
Domicile | Luxembourg |
May be offered to professional investors only in | Luxembourg, The Netherlands, United Kingdom |
UCITS status i | Yes |
Status | Open-end i |
Base currency | EUR |
Share class currency | GBP |
Management company | Kempen Capital Management N.V. |
Depositary and custodian | J.P. Morgan Bank Luxembourg S.A. |
Morningstar rating â„¢ | |
Morningstar Analyst rating | Bronze |
Tradability
Minimum subscription | Initial subscription £50,000, additional subscriptions £10,000 |
Listed | no |
Subscription/Redemption Frequency | Daily |
ISIN i | LU1833119990 |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Factsheets
Annual Reports
Semi- Annual Reports
Key Investor Information
ESG Publications
Formal documents other
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Kempen's vision & mission
Kempen Capital Management is an asset manager that believes in stewardship and investment focusing on the long-term for the benefit of all stakeholders. Value creation is at the heart of the services we provide to our clients. We believe that being an engaged shareholder on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and retaining a long-term focus, is critical to helping our clients to preserve and create sustainable wealth that has positive real world impact and economic returns.
Kempen wide approach to responsible investment
We are committed to create sustainable alpha. The four pillars of our ESG-policy are:
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ESG integration: Ensuring sustainability risks and opportunities are adequately considered in our investment analysis and processes.
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Exclusion & avoidance: Not investing in companies involved in controversial activities or conduct.
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Active ownership: Being responsible stewards of our clients’ capital and using our influence through engagement and voting to improve corporate behaviour on specific ESG issues and achieve positive change
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Positive impact: Investing with an objective to achieve positive real world outcomes and impact, such as contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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To put our mission and vision into practice we engage with our investee companies on a wide array of strategic, financial, and ESG topics. As an active owner we use our influence to improve our investee companies’ ESG performance. This helps us address some of the most pressing and important sustainability issues facing business and the world. Our focus themes for engagement are: human rights, labour rights, climate change and governance.
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Through collaboration with other investors and industry think tanks we contribute to the development of principles and standards of corporate responsibility both at sector levels, as well as investee company level.
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Our full voting records are available here.Â
Climate change
As a long-term investor, we believe climate change represents a systemic risk facing the economy, society and environment. We want to consider the risks and opportunities this presents to our investments in the coming decades. We have therefore set a long-term commitment (2050), a mid-term ambition (2030) and short-term objectives (2025).
- 2050 commitment: Net-zero investor.
- 2030 ambition: To align with a Paris Agreement pathway (listed and non-listed investments) and Dutch Klimaatakkoord.
- 2025 objectives: To align with a pathway towards achieving the Paris Agreement (listed investments) and Dutch Klimaatakkoord goals.[1]
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The Kempen climate change policy can be found here (under climate change policy).
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[1]We use carbon intensity as a metric to come to the pathway of net-zero emissions. As we care about the direction of travel and reduction of carbon emissions in the economy, it might be that the actual reducing trend may deviate from the suggested average trend line. The pathway is derived from the pathway of the EU Benchmarks.
OUR FUND APPROACH TO RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT
The investment objective of Kempen (Lux) Global Small-cap Fund is to offer investors the opportunity to invest in an actively and professionally managed portfolio of smaller listed companies worldwide, while at the same time complying with strict exclusion and sustainability criteria.
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By 2025, we aim to align with a pathway towards achieving the Paris Agreement and Dutch Klimaatakkoord goals for our portfolio, as well as the EU Climate Transition Benchmark[2].
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Kempen’s ESG policy is implemented in our fund’s investment process by the following pillars: Exclusion, Integration and Active ownership.
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[2] The EU Benchmarks consists of two climate benchmarks, Climate Transition Benchmark and Paris Aligned Benchmark, which have the aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 - in line with the 1.5?C scenarios from the IPCC. As we care about the direction of travel and reduction of carbon emissions in the economy, it might be that the actual reducing trend may deviate from the average pathway. We use carbon intensity (based on Revenues) as the forward-looking climate metric.
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Exclusion & Avoidance
In line with the general Kempen policy, the Global Small-cap Fund excludes all companies on the KCM Exclusion- or Avoidance list.
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Companies that ‘Fail’ or are on ‘Watchlist’ marked against the criteria of the United Nations Global Compact are excluded.
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We determine a company’s ESG score (1-5) and exclude companies with a score of 1. Companies with a score of 2 are excluded on a comply or explain basis.
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More information on our exclusion criteria and thresholds can be found here.
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The Global Small-cap Fund also excludes companies based on additional sustainability criteria as listed in the table below.
 | KEMPEN CRITERIA | ADDITIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA |
Business Conduct x    Human Rights x    Labour x    Environment x    Anti-corruption Product Involvement x    Controversial Weapons x    Tobacco x    Thermal coal x    Tar sands x    Adult Entertainment x    Alcohol x    Animal Welfare & GMO x    Gambling x    Power Generation       Nuclear x    Power Generation       Carbon Intensive x    (Un)conventional Oil &       Gas Extraction x    Weaponry |  V V V V  V V V V             |           V V V V V  V  V  V |
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In the investment process we assess the ESG profile of a company. We assess each company on a case-by-case basis, taking into account material risks in a given industry in combination with the company’s respective risk exposure, practices and disclosure.
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A lower score (1-5) requires a higher return as used in our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) models. If ESG risks are deemed too severe, an investment in the company will be avoided and/or existing holdings will be sold.
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On a quarterly basis, the Kempen Responsible Investment team screens the holdings of the Kempen Global Small-cap Fund and discusses the findings with the portfolio managers.
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Active ownership: Engagement
As active investors we perform comprehensive engagements with our portfolio companies with the objective to unlock value and reduce risk.Â
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Our engagement process defines clear objectives of which the progress and result is tracked and well documented. If at any stage the company refuses to cooperate, divestment has to be considered.
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In the first half of 2019, we engaged with 20 companies on strategic, environmental, social and governance issues.
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You can find the engagement factsheet of A&F here
You can find the factsheet of Kaiser Aluminium here
You can find the engagement factsheet of Western Forest here
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Active ownership: Voting
Exercising our voting rights is also an essential part of our responsible investment philosophy. ISS provides us with voting recommendations based on our own voting and governance policy. Items are further analyzed on a case by case basis.
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Often, we inform the company about our voting intention ahead of the meeting and, where there is a recommendation to vote against management, we ask the company to clarify their viewpoints. After careful analysis, we form our own opinion and vote accordingly.
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Risks
For more information about the mid and long term risks associated with the investments:
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Although Kempen Capital Management N.V.’s information providers, including without limitation, MSCI ESG Research LLC and its affiliates (the “ESG Partiesâ€), obtain information from sources they consider reliable, none of the ESG Parties warrants or guarantees the originality, accuracy and/or completeness of any data herein. None of the ESG Parties makes any express or implied warranties of any kind, and the ESG Parties hereby expressly disclaim all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to any data herein. None of the ESG Parties shall have any liability for any errors or omissions in connection with any data herein. Further, without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall any of the ESG Parties have any liability for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, consequential or any other damages (including lost profits) even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
ESG Report






The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.