Donville Kent Asset Management’s North American long/short equity fund invests in growth companies that consistently earn a high ROE. These companies typically have strong recurring revenues, minimal leverage, a defensible competitive advantage, and outstanding management teams.
Donville Kent has a small-cap bias, striving to invest in growth companies early before they mature into larger entities and have their multiples re-evaluated by the investment community. The company’s short strategy focuses on a basket of companies that rank poorly across select quantitative metrics and serve as partial hedges against its highest systematic exposures.
There are a few categories of investments where someone can get 5x, 10x, or even 100x returns. Many historical examples required luck or a niche non repetitive insight. However, many of these life changing investment returns come from the category of “compounders”. This presentation focuses on the common traits needed to be a successful compounder, plus examples of past, present, and future compounders.