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Founded in 2026, the Moreton Financial model portfolio is constructed as a high conviction portfolio. It is designed to express strong views on individual securities and markets, while acknowledging that optimal outcomes depend not only on conviction, but on how those convictions are combined and correlate within a portfolio.

In addition to individual securities, the portfolio seeks to express conviction at a broader level by targeting specific sectors, industry groups, industries, and sub industries. These allocations reflect our best idea areas where we believe structural, cyclical, or thematic developments are emerging, and where market pricing may not yet fully reflect fundamentals.

The portfolio focuses primarily on listed equities.

Our investment philosophy is strongly influenced by value based thinking, particularly the concepts articulated by Seth Klarman. In simple terms, we seek to buy a dollar for fifty cents, acquiring interests in businesses and markets at prices that imply a meaningful discount to assessed intrinsic value.

This requires identifying high quality businesses that appear undervalued, understanding why the mispricing exists, and forming a view on what may cause that mispricing to change over time.

As a consequence, the portfolio often avoids market herding and consensus driven trades. Comfort with temporary divergence from prevailing market narratives is viewed as a necessary part of value-based investing.

A core belief underpinning the portfolio is that management quality, particularly management’s approach to capital allocation, is one of the most important drivers of long-term shareholder outcomes. Echoed by Peter Lynch, this perspective warns against company 'diworseification', where capital is deployed into expansions or acquisitions that dilute returns rather than enhance them.

Moreton Financial therefore places significant weight on how management teams allocate capital across reinvestment, acquisitions, debt reduction, and shareholder returns. Businesses that demonstrate discipline, restraint, and rational decision making are favoured over those that pursue growth for growth’s sake.

The management of debt is therefore a critical component of the investment framework. The portfolio evaluates debt levels not only in absolute terms, but relative to cash flow stability, business cyclicality, and management behavior. Conservative balance sheets are viewed as strategic advantages rather than inefficiencies.

The portfolio is grounded in a fundamentally driven approach to investing, with a preference for assets linked to real economic activity, productive capacity, and observable demand. Fundamental analysis focuses on cash flows, balance sheets, asset quality, and the durability of business models rather than price momentum or narrative alone.

This perspective extends to real assets within the investment universe. Exposure may include industries such as uranium, and metals & mining where long-term fundamentals are supported by tangible demand drivers, including infrastructure investment, and the physical requirements for the electrification of the grid. In these cases, value is assessed through supply constraints, cost curves, capital intensity, and the physical inputs required to support infrastructure build outs and the energy transition.

The portfolio takes a clear view on cash. Cash holdings are kept to minimal levels under normal conditions. Our belief is that excessive cash is associated with regret aversion, the desire to avoid the discomfort of short-term losses at the expense of long-term compounding. Cash is therefore not treated as a strategic allocation in its own right within this model portfolio.

By contrast, the framework avoids assets whose valuation is driven primarily by sentiment, scarcity narratives, or speculative adoption rather than observable fundamentals. The emphasis remains on investments where intrinsic value can be reasonably assessed and where long term outcomes are anchored in economic reality.

Moreton Financial seeks to demonstrate how valuation, conviction, and portfolio construction shape long term returns.

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