Prime Value wins Zenith Small Cap Fund Award

25 March 2022

Richard Ivers is portfolio manager of the Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund How have you beat the Small Ords without investing in resources stocks? Not investing in small resource stocks has been a headwind over the last six months. When resources stocks run, they tend to run hard, like we are currently seeing. But we have […]

21 March 2022

The Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund has been upgraded to “Recommended” by Zenith Investment Partners. The small caps fund, which takes a high conviction, benchmark unaware approach, has been one of the outstanding small cap funds in recent years, including across the pandemic when it was ranked first in Mercer’s Australian Small Companies (ex-ASX100) survey […]

1 February 2022

Market uncertainty spells opportunity for investors as the market experiences an intense and volatile start to 2022, according to boutique investment house, Prime Value Asset Management. ST Wong, chief investment officer, said uncertainty may be uncomfortable for investors, but in markets, uncertainty was not risk. “Uncertainty creates opportunity through volatility, which produces great entry points […]

24 December 2021

MoneyTalks is Stockhead’s regular recap of the stocks, sectors and trends that ASX fund managers and analysts are looking at right now. In this edition, we’re looking at structural growth stocks.  Today we hear from Richard Ivers from Melbourne-based Prime Value. Prime Value’s Emerging Opportunities Fund made an 18.1% gain in FY20 – ahead of the ASX […]

23 December 2021

Why uncertainty in markets creates opportunity – with a little teamwork The omicron COVID-19 variant has cast some uncertainty over markets, which spells opportunity for investors, according to ST Wong, Chief Investment Officer of Prime Value Asset Management. “Uncertainty in markets is not risk. Uncertainty creates opportunity through volatility, which produces great entry points into […]

25 November 2021

The statistics which count as Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund continues outperformance Statistics will vary across an investment fund’s life, but there’s one number which has been pretty much constant during Richard Ivers’ three-year stint at the helm of the outperforming Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund. While you won’t see this statistic on monthly, quarterly […]

20 October 2021

What the Australian share market has in common with three-minute noodles By ST Wong The Australian stock market has developed a hunger for any next thing, it doesn’t even need to be a ‘next big thing’, just any next thing to fulfil a short-term craving. The market’s short-term focus is like basing a diet around […]

12 October 2021

Should investors trust the bears or a new economic cycle? Investors who look through bearish signals will find companies poised to benefit from economic strength. ST Wong Was it really just 18 months ago that the price of oil was negative? Oil producers had such a glut they were literally paying buyers to take barrels […]

5 October 2021

Market volatility does not change key drivers of the share market By ST Wong Recent market volatility will likely impact the Australian share market in the short-term, driven largely by volatility in the commodities market. The concerns over commodities can be traced back to problems with Chinese property company Evergrande, which is currently experiencing a […]