Evli Hannibal is a European Equities fund that derives its investment strategy from markets lifelong tendency to overreact and eventually revert towards the mean. The fund follows a “no-compromise” deep value/contrarian strategy and starts its’ screening process with shares that, for whatever reason, “have a low valuation that is (clearly) lower than before”. The fund has followed the same strategy since inception with zero style drift. The fund’s portfolio composition differs usually considerably/completely from both broad European indices and from the most common investment strategy/factor indices (growth, dividend, value, quality). The fund’s tracking error is large and active share very high. The final choice of stocks among candidates that meet the funds valuation criteria is made using traditional company and financial statement analysis, with a lot of emphasis put on hidden assets/sum of parts, break up, liquidation, replacement values/balance sheets.
