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Bellevue SICAV: The Bellevue Funds (Lux) SICAV is admitted for public offering and distribution in Switzerland . Representative agent in Switzerland   Waystone Fund Services (Switzerland) SA, Avenue Villamont 17, CH-1005 Lausanne and paying agent in Switzerland: DZ PRIVATBANK (Schweiz) AG Münsterhof 12, PO Box, CH-8022 Zürich. Austria: Paying and information agent: Zeidler Legal Process Outsourcing Limited., 19-22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, D02 X658, Ireland. Germany: information agent: Zeidler Legal Process Outsourcing Limited., 19-22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, D02 X658, Ireland. Spain: The Bellevue Funds (Lux) SICAV is registered with the CNMV under the number 938. Paying and information agent: atl Capital, Calle de Montalbán 9, ES-28014 Madrid.  Prospectus, Key Investor Information Document (“KID”), the articles of association as well as the annual and semi - annual reports of the Bellevue Funds under Luxembourg law are available free of charge from the above mentioned representative, paying, facilities and information agents as well as from Bellevue Asset Management AG, Seestrasse 16 , CH - 8700 Kusnacht. 

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Fund documents Bellevue Funds and Bellevue Healthcare Strategy

Prospectus, Key Investor Information Document („KID“), fund contract as well as the annual and semi - annual reports of the Bellevue Medtech and Services fund established under Swiss law in the category "Other Funds for Traditional Investments" are available free of charge from : Switzerland : Swisscanto Fondsleitung AG, Bahnhofstrasse 9 , CH - 8001 Zürich or Bellevue Asset Management AG, Seestrasse 16 , CH - 8700 Kusnacht

Fund documents StarCapital Equity Value plus, StarCapital Multi Income, StarCapital Strategy 1 and StarCapital Dynamic Bonds.

Prospectus, the key investor information document ("KID"), the management regulations and the semi-annual and annual report are available free of charge in German from Bellevue Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH, your advisor or intermediary, the paying agents, the relevant custodian bank or from the management company IPConcept (Luxembourg) S.A. (société anonyme), 4, rue Thomas Edison, L-1445 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, https://www.ipconcept.com. For information on opportunities and risks as well as tax information, please refer to the current detailed sales prospectus. Further information on investor rights can be found on the Management Company's website (https://www.ipconcept.com). The management company may decide to cancel the arrangements it has made for the distribution of the units of its collective investment undertakings in accordance with Article 93a of Directive 2009/65/EC and Article 32a of Directive 2011/61/EU.

Fund documents Bellevue Option Premium fund

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 Fund documents StarCapital Premium Bonds plus  

Prospectus, the key investor information document ("KID"), the management regulations and the semi-annual and annual reports. These can be obtained free of charge in German from Bellevue Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH, your advisor or intermediary, the paying agents, the responsible depositary (UBS Europe SE, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 2-4, D-60306 Frankfurt am Main) or from the management company Donner & Reuschel AG, Ballindamm 27, 20095 Hamburg, https://www.donner-reuschel.de. For information on opportunities and risks as well as tax information, please refer to the current detailed sales prospectus. Further information on investor rights can be found on the Management Company's website (https://www.universal-investment.com). The management company may decide to cancel the arrangements it has made for the distribution of the units of its collective investment undertakings in accordance with Article 93a of Directive 2009/65/EC and Article 32a of Directive 2011/61/EU.

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Bellevue Entrepreneur Europe Small

Share class
Documents

ISIN-No.: LU0631859229

YTD: 6.74%

Active share: 89.18

Anzahl Positionen: 44

Explained in 90 seconds

Bellevue Entrepreneur Europe Small Fund explained in 90 seconds

 Owner-operated or family-run companies think in generations, not in quarters

Solid balance sheets, high innovative strength and safety awareness have a positive effect on the share price

Companies impress with high ESG scores

Indexed performance (as at: 30.10.2024)

NAV: EUR 386.69 (29.10.2024)


01 Jan 2010 - 01 Jan 2010
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B-EUR
Benchmark

Rolling performance (30.10.2024)

B-EURBenchmark
29.10.2023 - 29.10.202423.40%24.32%
29.10.2022 - 29.10.20235.73%-0.98%
29.10.2021 - 29.10.2022-28.95%-23.94%
29.10.2020 - 29.10.202149.45%52.35%

Annualized performance (30.10.2024)

B-EURBenchmark
1 year23.40%24.32%
3 years-2.50%-1.85%
5 years7.49%7.04%
10 years9.11%9.13%
Since Inception p.a.8.83%9.56%

Cumulative performance (30.10.2024)

B-EURBenchmark
1M-4.20%-3.10%
YTD6.74%4.81%
1 year23.40%24.32%
3 years-7.30%-5.44%
5 years43.52%40.52%
10 years139.24%139.55%
Since Inception209.35%238.07%

Annual performance

B-EURBenchmark
202316.15%12.85%
2022-23.46%-20.60%
202119.48%24.71%
202015.48%11.74%

Investment Focus

The fund’s aim is to achieve capital growth in the long term, is actively managed and invests in small capitalized, listed owner-managed companies in Europe where an entrepreneur or a founder family holds at least a 20% of a company’s voting rights. The qualities of these companies – a focused business model, fast decision-making processes and a strong corporate culture – go hand in hand with efficient innovation, high product quality and strong customer loyalty. The corresponding impact on the share price is demonstrably positive. The fund’s Management Team offers a wealth of experience in this investment segment and has built up an extensive network with entrepreneurs throughout the sector. It pursues a fundamental, bottom-up approach in identifying the most attractive foundercontrolled companies with a small market capitalization while maintaining an investment portfolio of 35 to 45 stocks diversified by country, sub-sector and style (Value, GARP, Growth). The fund takes ESG factors into consideration while implementing the aforementioned investment objectives.Show moreShow less

Investment suitability & Risk

SRI

Low risk

High risk

The Fund’s investment objective is to generate attractive and competitive capital growth in the long term. It is therefore particularly suited to investors with an investment horizon of at least 5 years who want to enhance their portfolio diversification with investments in European small capitalized founder-controlled companies. The Fund displays the typical risks associated with equity investments in European small caps.

General Information

Investment ManagerBellevue Asset Management AG
CustodianCACEIS BANK, LUXEMBOURG BRANCH
Fund AdministratorCACEIS BANK, LUXEMBOURG BRANCH
AuditorPriceWaterhouseCoopers
Launch date30.06.2011
Year end closing30. Jun
NAV CalculationDaily "Forward Pricing"
Cut of time15:00 CET
Management Fee1.60%
Subscription Fee (max.)5.00%
Performance Fee10.00% (with High Water Mark)
ISIN numberLU0631859229
Valor number13084212
BloombergBFLESBE LX
WKNA1JG2H
Total expense ratio (TER)2.18% (30.09.2024)

Legal Information

Legal formLuxembourg UCITS V SICAV
SFDR categoryArticle 8

Key data (30.09.2024, base currency EUR)

Beta0.87
Volatility16.42
Tracking error6.49
Active share89.18
Correlation0.93
Sharpe ratio-0.02
Information ratio-0.13
Jensen's alpha-0.79
No. of positions44

Top 10 positions

Burckhardt Compression
Fuchs
Flughafen Zürich
Nordex
Subsea 7
Buzzi Unicem
Laboratorios Rovi
Bankinter
Merlin Properties
Cloetta
4.1%
3.8%
3.4%
3.3%
3.3%
3.3%
3.3%
3.2%
3.1%
3.1%

Market capitalization

0 - 1 bn
1 - 2 bn
2 - 5 bn
5 - 15 bn
Others
11.8%
17.0%
33.2%
33.6%
4.5%

Geographic breakdown

Spain
Switzerland
France
Germany
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Italy
Austria
Ireland
Portugal
Other
Cash
15.5%
14.8%
12.3%
10.7%
9.7%
8.1%
6.3%
6.1%
5.2%
3.0%
1.2%
1.0%
6.3%

Breakdown by sector

Industrials
Financials
Materials
IT
Consumer Staples
Healthcare
Energy
Communication Services
Consumer Discretion.
Real Estate
Utilities
Cash
29.1%
13.6%
10.5%
9.4%
8.4%
7.4%
4.2%
3.8%
3.0%
3.0%
1.3%
6.3%

Benefits

  • Above-average top line growth driven by high innovation and strong pricing power.
  • Higher operating margins on the back of high market share ("Champion in the niche") combined with good cost discipline.
  • More conservatively financed, lower debt exposure and a higher risk capacity compared to non-family businesses.
  • Multi-award-winning management team with a long and successful track record investing in owner-run firms.
  • Entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs – the Bellevue Group is itself an owner-run company with the majority of shares held by employees.

Risks

  • The fund actively invests in equities. Equities are subject to price fluctuations and so are also exposed to the risk of price losses.
  • Shares in smaller businesses are generally traded in lower volumes and are subject to bigger price fluctuations than larger enterprises.
  • The fund invests in foreign currencies, which means a corresponding degree of currency risk against the reference currency.
  • The fund may invest a proportion of its assets in financial instruments that might under certain circumstances have a relatively low level of liquidity, which can in turn affect the fund’s liquidity.
  • The fund may engage in derivatives transactions. The increased opportunities gained come with an increased risk of losses.

European small and mid caps, as measured by the MSCI Europe Small Cap ex-UK, rose 0.2% in September slightly outperforming European large caps (SXXR -0.3%). Following a relative weak start into the month, equities generally rebounded sustained by a combination of 3 factors: 1) a 50 bps cut from the Fed 2) a pickup in US economic data, signalling the unlikelihood of a sharp downturn for now, and 3) significant Chinese stimulus announcements, leading to a surge in local markets and China exposed stocks (Shanghai Index SSE up more than 20%). Europe was less exciting, with the Eurozone flash PMI failing to remain above the key 50 level (48.9 in September from 51.0 in August), impacted by a deepening of the downturn in the manufacturing sector (44.8 vs 45.8) while services remained in expansion territory. In terms of sector performance, chemicals (+5.9%), insurance (+4.3%) and real estate (+3.8%) performed best while energy (-5.4%), healthcare (-2.4%) and technology (-1.8%) lagged the most.

Against this backdrop, the fund increased by 0.5% (EUR / B shares), outperforming its benchmark by 37 bps. This brings the performance to 10.7% for the first nine month of 2024, a 336 bps beat vs the benchmark.

Top detractors in the month were Subsea 7 (-10.1%), Rovi (-10%) and Do & Co (-10.3%). Speculations about Rovi’s CDMO assets sale hit the press, with a Spanish Newspaper mentioning CVC likely to offer EUR 3 bn, at the lower end of the valuation range. Other than the value of the deal, other questions remain unanswered: Will Rovi keep a minority stake? how will the cash be allocated or re-invested, ie is a jumbo dividend possible? The actual market cap of EUR 3.7 bn now discounts a very low multiple to the non-CDMO business. We had reduced our position following a management meeting in early September. Subsea 7 experienced further profit taking related to the probability of a weaker Q3 order flow after a very strong Q2. Also, the oil price has been falling since April due to lower economic growth in China and Europe despite geopolitical uncertainty. A recent meeting with the management left us confident about the general activity levels for both conventional O+G and offshore wind for the subsea contractor. After a strong first half, Do & Co was subject to profit taking despite having published strong quarterly results marked notably by an excellent topline growth of 38%, including +40% in airline catering where the company continues to gain market shares. Operating margins were down 60 bps to 6.6% which remains a very decent profitability level for the sector, particularly as start up costs in the US temporarily weigh on margins.     

Top performers in the month were Fuchs (+14.5%), Nexans (+12.8%) and Sopra Steria (+8.0%). As an early cyclical exposed to global industrials and auto, Fuchs benefited from both the Fed cut and the China stimulus. We feel the company has been overly sanctioned by the recent auto sector weakness, considering Fuchs exposure to first-fill OEM lubricants is only 10%. Nexans maintained its upward trend underpinned by positive newsflow related to the Great Sea Interconnector, a EUR 1.9 bn project aiming at connecting Cyprus to the European electricity network through Greece. While a lot remains to be finalized in this highly complex project, these progresses are contributing to the gradual rerating of Nexans which remains highly undervalued in light of its strong growth prospects. Sopra Steria rebounded as some early cyclicals IT services players showed improving business trends. Sopra’s next growth phase will be sustained by recurring large digitization projects and the ramp up of its high margin consulting activity. At 7.5x 2024 EBIT, the risk reward is attractive.

The European equity opportunity is slowly sinking in. At the same time, European small and mid caps benefit too as the asset class is offering an interesting entry point with valuations below their large caps peers for the first time since 2008. The massive valuation gap with European equities trading at 14x forward earnings, compared to 21x for the S&P 500 speaks for the region. What could be the triggers to a rerating? China seems less bad and we have witnessed some positive macro data. The Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI increased to 51.1 in March, the fifth straight month of growth in factory activity. Copper reached an 11-month high. Also, compared to the Fed, the European Central Bank finds itself in a less complicated situation. The business cycles of the US and Europe have decorrelated a lot in the last 6-12 months and while growth expectations rise in the US, it is the opposite in Germany and a large part of Europe. Finally the March BofA's global fund survey showed the largest increase in allocations to European equities since June 2020. After 3 consecutive years of outflows, it’s time to reconsider European small and mid caps.

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Awards

  • Co-Lead Portfolio Manager

    Birgitte Olsen

    Birgitte Olsen, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager Equities Europe, joined Bellevue Asset Management in 2008. Prior to that, she was Deputy Head of Portfolio Management Equities Europe at Generali Investments in Cologne for more than nine years. She worked as a Fund Manager (DE and Scandinavia) at Vontobel Asset Management in Zurich in 1997 and 1998. Birgitte Olsen started her career in the financial industry in 1994 as a sell-side analyst at Bank am Bellevue covering the insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. She holds a degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of St. Gallen.
  • Co-Lead Portfolio Manager

    Laurent Picard

    Laurent Picard joined Bellevue Asset Management in 2018. Prior to that, he was an Financial consultant for start-ups in the internet/tech sector. From 2009 to 2016 he was a senior equity research analyst for media at Société Générale, having joined from UBS Warburg, where he was an equity analyst for IT Services and Software and a strategist specialized on the French markets. Laurent Picard graduated from Paris X University and ESSEC business school and holds a Master of Financial Techniques.
  • Senior Product Specialist

    Loreno Ferrari

    Loreno Ferrari joined Bellevue Asset Management in 2018 and is a Senior Product Specialist. Previously, he spent 3 years as an Investment Specialist at UBS Asset Management and 8 years at Zürcher Kantonalbank, most recently as an Investment Advisor. Loreno holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Business Administration (UAS) Zurich with a Specialization in Banking and Finance. He is a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) and holds the Certificate in ESG Investing from CFA Institute.
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