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At the 2025 Pinnacle Insights Series, Dougal Maple-Brown posed the question, "Do you have enough Value in your portfolio?" Heightened market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty has many advisers considering whether they should be more defensive with the Australian equities part of their client portfolios.

Dougal Maple-Brown, Head of Australian Value Equities provides his detailed summary of the March reporting season.

Many of the popular investment themes and crowded stock holdings driving the Australian small cap market in the 2024 calendar year have reversed in the March 2025 quarter. Given the expectation of lower domestic interest rates going forward, many of the high-flying technology, quality and growth exposed companies have been used as funding sources as investors rotate into cheaper quality stocks and/or value/cyclical exposed companies with improving earnings momentum. The question for investors is whether this is just a blip or is the rotation more sustainable? This thematic shift and heightened market volatility is creating increased value adding opportunities for…

The information on this page has been prepared in response to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requirements and applies to Maple-Brown Abbott Global Infrastructure Fund, which has been categorised as Article 8 under the regulation. Please note the relevant disclosures for the AMX UCITS CCF – Maple-Brown Abbott Global Infrastructure Fund are available on the AMX by Carne website.Sustainability risks within the SFDR are environmental, social and governance (ESG) events or conditions whose occurrence could have an actual or potential principal adverse impact on the value of the investment. Sustainability risks can affect all known types of risk (for example, market…

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure (MBA GLI) is a highly specialised investment manager focused on infrastructure assets. Since our inception in 2012, we have built a strong track record of delivering stable, long-term returns by investing in infrastructure. Features of the infrastructure asset class include defensive business models, diversification, inflation protection and low volatility cash flows. Our expertise, independence, and alignment with investors have made us a leader in the sector.

The Fund is actively managed and is primarily invested in companies listed (or expected to be listed) on an Australian securities exchange which, at the time they are first invested, are not included in the S&P/ASX 100 Index and have a minimum market capitalisation of $100 million. We believe that company earnings drive share prices over the medium-term. We use a disciplined fundamental research process to identify undervalued companies where we have conviction in medium-term earnings delivery. We focus on earnings-based valuations, assessment of how sustainable a company’s business model is and consideration of earnings risk. We believe that this…

The Fund is invested in companies listed (or expected to be listed) on an Australian securities exchange and is actively managed. Our value-based investment philosophy underlies our approach to stock selection, driven by our bottom-up research process designed to maximise the opportunities to deliver income and long-term capital growth to our clients. We use several valuation screens to rank our investment universe and generate stock ideas. Our experienced team then undertakes detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify companies that are trading at a discount to our assessment of their underlying value. The Fund is managed on a ‘benchmark unaware’ basis…