Advised Funds

Units of the Fund are available under exemptions from the prospectus requirements in accordance with the National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions and are, therefore, only available to qualified investors.

The Rivemont MicroCap Fund, available to Canadian qualified investors, aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in the micro-cap market sector in Canada and the United States. The objective of the Fund is to identify the most promising companies early in their development cycle to maximize the potential for long-term returns. Securities are analyzed using a fundamental value approach.

The Rivemont MicroCap Fund is designed for investors with a high risk tolerance in search of a high return potential. The Fund is also ideal for any investor wishing to diversify their portfolio with an asset having a low correlation to traditional asset classes.

In Canada, a micro-capitalisation (or microcap) is a public company with a valuation of $ 300 million or less. Microcaps are essentially the smallest companies on the stock market.

According to Yahoo Finance, there are currently more than 2,400 companies in Canada that meet the definition of microcap. In North America, some 11,000 microcaps companies employ more than 2.8 million people, more than Google, IBM, Home Depot, Berkshire Hathaway, AT & T, Pfizer, Cisco, Microsoft, Boeing, General Electric and GM combined.

Some of the most successful companies have made their IPO debut as microcaps, including Wal-Mart, Netflix, Apple and Berkshire Hathaway. Also, many of the best investors we know today have started their careers investing in microcaps – think of Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and Joel Greenblatt, among others.

Although past returns never guarantee futures ones, several studies ⁽¹⁾ have shown that microcaps tend to outperform large capitalisation companies over the long term. We identify two main reasons for this outperformance:

• First of all, given their small size, microcaps are structurally less accessible to professional investors with large sums of money to invest. Indeed, most investment funds must invest in mid and large capitalisations because they are the only market segments where they can invest large amounts. The result is a more inefficient microcaps market segment in which the competition is less fierce.
• Then, microcaps stocks generally offer little liquidity. Liquidity is the ability to buy or sell securities quickly, inexpensively and without having a significant effect on their price. This characteristic is generally sought by stock investors. Therefore, there is a yield premium to compensate investors who choose to invest in less liquid securities such as microcaps.

These two characteristics represent for us great advantages and they can allow us to find exceptional opportunities well before other actors in the market do consider them.

⁽¹⁾  For example, the following studies: Liquidity as an Investment Style – Roger G. Ibbotson, Zhiwu Chen, Daniel Y.-J. Kim, and Wendy Y. Hu (2016) et Common risk factors in the returns of stocks and bonds – Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French (1993)

Our team has been active in the microcap sector for many years, tracking over 200 companies on a regular basis. We constantly evaluate which companies on our watch list should be included in the portfolio. 

We also monitor all press releases on the Canadian market every day (200+ releases per day on average) to discover new opportunities. 

Finally, over the years we’ve built up an extensive North American network of successful investors, industry experts, analysts, brokers and business leaders. This network provides us with a constant flow of investment opportunities, and enables us to discover the most promising companies long before anyone else.