Craton Capital is a specialist manager of portfolios in the natural resources sector, including precious metals; metal and mining; oil, gas & utilities and renewable, alternative & sustainable resources. Craton Capital has three investment products: the Precious Metal Fund the Global Resources Fund and the Renewable, Alternative and Sustainable Resources Fund.
Our investment process
Whilst Craton Capital does not confine its investment methodology to any particular investment style, its approach is based on the principles of value investing. The firm remains long-term stock-pickers at heart and constantly seek out stocks which are trading at levels well below their intrinsic value.
Craton's investment processHow to invest
Units of the Craton Capital funds can be purchased by sending a subscription form to your bank. The necessary forms and a diagram illustrating the subscription process have been made available on this site.
How to investContact us
E-mail: info@cratoncapital.com
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Gold Equities vs. Gold: An Irrational Disconnect
16 May 2012
Markus Bachmann and the Craton Capital investment team dig deeper into the disconnect between the price of gold and gold equities and conclude that the equities are discounting a gold price substantially below the current level. Gold is presently undergoing a correction, but the fundamentals remain positive and gold equities highly attractive.
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‚SJB FondsEcho’ of 3rd May 2012
3 May 2012
Attractive valuations. Fund strategy: stock picking to perfection. A portrait of the Craton Capital Precious Metal Fund.
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Craton Capital: Gold equities are in a negative bubble
16 April 2012
Gold equities have not been the most pleasant place over the past few months, but the conditions for a strong gold price environment remain, in our view, firmly in place. The economics and the profitability of the companies in “politically secure” domiciles has never been stronger. ‘Therefore we struggle to describe the undervaluation of the sector as rational and I get more and more the sense of looking at a ’bubble’. But it is rather a bubble of a negative kind and, as with every bubble, it is difficult to pinpoint a specific catalyst and the timing thereof ’, says Markus Bachmann, CEO and fund manager of Craton Capital. Gold equities are probably the most undervalued sector globally and the junior component of it has the highest excess return profile. ‘It is difficult to say when this bubble is going to burst but I know from own experience that when it bursts it can move rapidly,’ says Bachmann.
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Gold Equities – Undiscovered Potential
12 April 2012
Imagine one could invest in companies that print money. Considering the number of times that global central banks have resorted to the printing press in the recent times, it would have been a rather lucrative investment. Companies that “produce money” do in fact exist: gold mines are nothing else than manufacturers of money. Gold is the most solid and sound currency one could find. Yet, the stock prices of these companies have been brutally beaten...
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Gold Equities - Thoughts About Perception
14 February 2012
Craton Capital's Markus Bachmann offers his views on the perception of gold equities.
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