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"The strategy posted a -4.8% net return in September amid macroeconomic softness and acute affiliate noise at Pinnacle Investment Management. With cash held at 2.5% and over half the portfolio valued near ten-year multiple troughs, Lakehouse maintains an offensive long-term stance focused on resilient underlying earnings growth across 17 concentrated holdings."
Lakehouse Small Companies Fund pursues long-term capital appreciation by investing in high-conviction, high-quality growth businesses that feature pricing power, resilient balance sheets, and substantial reinvestment potential. For September 2026, the fund returned -4.8% net of fees, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index, which delivered -2.3%. Macroeconomic volatility and persistent cross-asset valuation compression served as primary headwinds, with broad-based market weakness exacerbating markdowns in financial affiliates. Despite short-term pressure, portfolio positioning remains structurally concentrated across 17 companies, with cash held low at 2.5% and the five largest holdings comprising 47.3% of fund assets. Key detractors included Pinnacle Investment Management following property-linked markdowns at affiliate Metrics, while Cogstate contributed positively backed by clinical backlog expansion. Crucially, more than half of the underlying portfolio companies are currently trading near decade-low valuation multiples despite steady fundamentals. The manager views these suppressed valuations as a compelling foundation for future multi-year compounding.
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