A strong Europe needs smart minds who can contribute to the intersection of finance, sustainability, and economic development—with heart and a solid ethical compass.

In the Frankfurt School’s Audimax, we had the honor of awarding the scholarship certificate to Ai-Lin WEN from Taiwan at the official ceremony. Her outstanding academic achievements and proven interest in sustainability impressed us, alongside her commitment to social causes.

We are proud that our CHOM CAPITAL PURE Sustainability – Small Cap Europe UI has been named Best ESG Equities Fund Europe at the 2024 Global Banking & Finance Awards. This recognition highlights our commitment to sustainability and excellent investment strategies.

Since 2022, we at CHOM CAPITAL have had the honor of supporting the nonprofit social enterprise CLIMB from Hamburg. Through their outstanding strengths-based approach, CLIMB not only instills a love for learning in children from disadvantaged urban areas but also teaches essential future skills such as teamwork, consideration, and perseverance.

Johannes Gans joined CHOM CAPITAL as a working student in September 2022 and has been actively supporting sales and portfolio management ever since. After successfully completing his master’s thesis in April and with the end of his field hockey career at SC Frankfurt 1880 Hockey, the former Bundesliga hockey player, German champion and youth national player is now joining us full-time.

• Small and medium-sized companies, often global market leaders, drive the European economy forward
• Since 2000, small caps have generated an annual return of a solid 7%, approximately 4% alpha to large caps
• The recent phase of weakness in small caps offers investors an attractive entry opportunity
• The major catalysts for a small-cap outperformance are: Interest rate cuts, an improving economic outlook,
historically low valuations and the current under-allocation of investor money
• All four catalysts begin to interlock with each other and develop positively

Roshan Domingo joined our team as a working student in January 2022 and has since transitioned into a full-time analyst role on our investment team. He consistently brings innovative investment ideas and plays a key role in portfolio monitoring and reporting.

• The European economy is recovering, which should support small caps compared to large caps
• Following cycle lows, small caps on average outperform large caps by nearly 16% within 12 months
• Rising interest rates could signal an improved growth environment and support the outperformance of European small caps
• ZEW sentiment as a reliable leading indicator for small-cap outperformance

• Positive sentiment and leading indicators point to future small cap outperformance
• Small cap drawdowns of over 20% are followed by an average 5-year return of 103%

We appeared with two articles in the “FNG Newsletter #117 April 2023”. Contribution 1: CHOM CAPITAL strengthens investment team and receives “Best European ESG Fund

“Music can change the world”, as Ludwig van Beethoven already knew. In the spirit of his words, we are delighted to support this year’s first

• As a technical service provider, SPIE is strongly exposed to various future topics – from services in electrification and energy transition to the expansion of modern telecommunications infrastructures
• The company is pioneering the sustainability transformation with already strongly increased taxonomy revenues and transparently underpins this with ambitious targets

• Essity offers a resilient business model as a personal care development company, which has strong margin expansion potential in the current environment
• The company is pioneering the sustainability transformation of its set-up in the industry and transparently underpins this with ambitious targets

• We analyze where and how to find business models with a high and at the same time as steady as possible growth potential over the coming years, which are still undiscovered and undervalued.
• With real-world sustainability, we describe, among other things, the business models, companies and thematic areas that participate disproportionately well in the inevitable global upcoming sustainability transformation.
• The CHOM CAPITAL PURE Sustainability – Small Cap Europe UI bundles these hidden sustainability champions in a very focused way – we look forward to exchanging ideas with you!

• Elopak is a climate pioneer for packaging systems on the way to a low-carbon circular economy with an ambitious transformation track record; the company has been operating climate-neutrally since 2016
• Cardboard packaging systems with superior sustainability profile – also considering the entire product life cycle

Frankfurt am Main, 28.11.2022 – At this year’s award ceremony of the “Forum für Nachhaltige Geldanlagen” (“FNG”) last week, the entire fund range of Frankfurt-based

• Hessian forest data has been deteriorating rapidly since 2018. We shed light on the situation and look at measures. Every hand can have a high impact here!

• CHOM CAPITAL plants the first 1,000 trees in the Friedrichsdorf district as part of the company’s commitment to donate 10% of fund revenues

• ABB has leading products and market positions in robotics, automation and energy systems

• As an enabler of global electrification and increased energy efficiency, the company is consistently building on its strong exposure to cleantech products

Since 2022, we have been accompanying and supporting the non-profit social enterprise climb from Hamburg, which uses a very successful strengths concept to teach children

• Despite bias effects, ESG ratings are an important steering parameter for many investors, resulting in performance potential for holistic approaches.
• In recent years, an ESG rating upgrade in Europe has resulted on average in positive absolute returns and relative outperformance, while a downgrade has resulted in underperformance.

We are involved on a voluntary basis with SC Frankfurt 1880 in the area of hockey on a management partner level. Now, we have the great honor to welcome Johannes Gans, one of the best talents of the Hockey-Bundesliga, as a working student with us.

Undiscovered performance potential and how to leverage it The neglected firm effect is also present in terms of sustainability and offers clear, usable performance contributions. In

WORKING STUDENT (F/M/D) PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT – BUY-SIDE ANALYSIS Are you looking forward to a high learning curve “on the job” and deep insights into the

Every day we are confronted with the terrible truth of war in Europe. For those affected, it is often the small things that make integration

CHOM CAPITAL invites you to its webinar ‘ESG-Blick in den Maschinenraum einer Fondsboutique’. The event is targeted towards professional financial planners and asset allocators interested

The CHOM CAPITAL PURE Sustainability – Small Cap Europe UI is “AKTION-FONDS in January” on the Hamburg Stock Exchange The Hamburg Stock Exchange offers investors

At the Universal Investment ChampionsCall, in addition to the EU taxonomy, the diverse approaches to generating value of the CHOM SUSTAINAMENTALS® investment process are discussed.

Frankfurt am Main, 30.11.2021 – the entire fund range of the Frankfurt-based equity specialist CHOM CAPITAL was awarded the FNG sustainability seal for its in-house

The Frankfurt fund boutique CHOM CAPITAL supports the Frankfurt Zoological Society (“FZS”). As part of the commitment to donate 10% of the fund sales of

Access to clean water and sanitation is the sixth of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, according to Unicef, 2.2 billion people, especially in

The Fund Analyst reports on the third birthday of our high-yield CHOM CAPITAL PURE Small Cap Europe UI and on our active and sustainable investment

The American acting icon Helen Hayes already knew: “You learn to love, laugh and walk from your parents. But it is only when you come

We are pleased to announce that our sustainable European small cap fund: CHOM CAPITAL PURE Sustainability – Small Cap Europe UI is now “coming of

Castell Insights – is a format with topics and information beyond the daily headlines. Our Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Christoph Benner was invited together

Hessen hockey against cancer – running together for a good cause

The Hessian field hockey youth is on the home stretch: the participants have already covered 9,252. A great achivement!

The participating clubs are: SC1880 Frankfurt, 1. Hanauer THC, Safo Frankfurt, HC Bad Homburg, MTV Kronberg, Rüsselsheimer RK, Limburger HC, HC Kassel and DJK SSG Bensheim.

To the surprise of all participants, the captain and coach of the Japanese national hockey team have spoken via video message.

We wish all hockey youngsters a lot of fun and success as well as a nice pre-Christmas season. Go, go, go…..

#hessenhockeyläuftnachtokio
#wirsindhessenhockey

Hessen hockey against cancer – running together for a good cause

The Hessian field hockey youth is on the home stretch: the participants have already covered 9,252. A great achivement!

The participating clubs are: SC1880 Frankfurt, 1. Hanauer THC, Safo Frankfurt, HC Bad Homburg, MTV Kronberg, Rüsselsheimer RK, Limburger HC, HC Kassel and DJK SSG Bensheim.

To the surprise of all participants, the captain and coach of the Japanese national hockey team have spoken via video message.

We wish all hockey youngsters a lot of fun and success as well as a nice pre-Christmas season. Go, go, go…..

#hessenhockeyläuftnachtokio
#wirsindhessenhockey

CHOM CAPITAL Active Return Europe UI receives the quality standard for sustainable investments (FNG-Label)

On November 26th and 27th, Citywire will be hosting the traditional annual closing. The program includes top-class workshops with our CEO and portfolio manager Christoph

Hessen hockey against cancer – running together for a good cause The Hessian hockey youth run a distance of 12,510 km together and thus go

The asset management boutique CHOM CAPITAL is changing its long-standing mission statement as another milestone in its sustainability strategy. With this step, CHOM CAPITAL also adapts its self-image “PERFORMANCE DRIVEN BY FUNDAMENTALS” to the new circumstances. Co-Founder and CEO Christoph Benner: „Our holistic approach of integrating non-financial criteria such as environmental considerations, social aspects and responsible corporate governance in a value-oriented, fundamental investment process combines two worlds: the fundamental world and the sustainable one. Our new self-image reflects this development in a simple equation:

SUSTAINABILITY + FUNDAMENTALS = SUSTAINAMENTALS.

This means investing in attractive companies with long-term responsible concepts for our customers.“

CHOM CAPITAL calls this mission statement:

PERFORMANCE DRIVEN BY SUSTAINAMENTALS

In an interview with Universal Investment, our colleagues Paul Althans and Benedikt Kirsch, Head of ESG, members of the portfolio management talk about performance drivers

Succesful SMEs refer as guarantors for the European economic and innovative strength. Their flexibility helps them, especially in times of crisis: Decision-making paths are significantly

“Success has to be sustainable” – CHOM CAPITAL CEO Christoph Benner explains why success has to be sustainable in an interview with the editorial team

Our portfoliomanagers Christoph Benner and Oliver Schnatz in talks with Marlene Hartz from Citywire Germany.

The softclosing of the CHOM CAPITAL Active Return Europe UI is accompanied medially by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“.