Richard Driehaus Momentum is a momentum investing strategy inspired by an approach used by US investor Richard Driehaus. It combines a focus on price and earnings momentum in small and mid-cap companies with strong, sustained earnings growth. Importantly, Driehaus wanted to find companies that had produced significant earnings surprises over the previous year by beating analyst forecasts. Driehaus said: "I would much rather invest in a stock that's increasing in price and take the risk that it may begin to decline than invest in a stock that's already in a decline and try to guess when it will turn around." Driehaus's fund management firm Driehaus Capital Management was reported to have delivered compound annual returns of 30% during the 12 years after it was started in 1980. Driehaus was named in Barron's "All-Century" team of the 25 most influential and powerful mutual fund managers in 2000.
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FTSE 100 |
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1 week | -0.4% | -5.7% | 2.1% | -8.8% | - | -1.0% | - | 3.9% |
1 month | -3.4% | -9.4% | -2.1% | -9.3% | - | -3.1% | - | 2.5% |
3 months | 12.1% | 3.3% | -6.3% | -13.1% | - | -9.9% | - | 1.2% |
6 months | -10.6% | -25.2% | -14.8% | -20.2% | - | -15.8% | -5.4% | 7.5% |
1 year | -3.6% | -20.1% | 0.0% | 21.6% | 2.6% | -10.2% | -3.9% | 7.8% |
2 years | 20.4% | 22.8% | 51.7% | 170.7% | 66.5% | 28.4% | 21.5% | 24.8% |
Annualised | 6.3% | 12.4% | 1.0% | 15.5% | 17.0% | 7.0% | 9.0% | |
Risks | ||||||||
Max Drawdown | -53.4% | -39.9% | -55.7% | -66.0% | -36.1% | -45.9% | -34.4% | |
Avg Holdings | 6.3 | 19 | 9.8 | 5.9 | 0.7 | 20.6 | 1.4 | |
Diversification | Low | Good | Moderate | Low | Low | Good | Low |