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European small & mid-cap equities · Amsterdam

Our best work happens
before the game begins.

Norbury Capital is a long-only investment fund. We are stockpickers, continuously looking for companies where fundamentals are improving before the wider market recognizes it — because fundamental change appears first in behavior, not headlines.

Performance

Two years in.

+51.5%Net since inception · Aug 2024
+27.0ppAhead of benchmark
+10.8%YTD 2026
90100110120130140150160Aug-24Feb-25Aug-25Feb-26Aug-26
NAV net of fees, indexed to 100 at inception · benchmark SPDR MSCI Europe Small Cap ETF (IE00BKWQ0M75) · until 31/08/26
Net return202420252026 YTDSince inception
Norbury Capital Fund5.3%30.0%10.8%51.5%
MSCI Europe Small Cap ETF−4.3%17.1%11.0%24.5%
What we believe

Markets move slowly, extrapolate the past, and confuse familiarity with insight.

That is why European small and mid-caps misprice — and why a disciplined stockpicker can keep finding them.

PRINCIPLE 01

Evidence, not promises

Every investment starts with proof of management's capital allocation skill: how cash actually gets deployed across cycles.

PRINCIPLE 02

A measurable gap

Opportunity emerges when a clear, measurable gap opens between our view of fundamentals and the market's view.

PRINCIPLE 03

Pressure-tested

AI and checklists sit inside the research process to pressure-test assumptions and expose where consensus drifts from data.

Why the opportunity exists

A pond the capital has left.

Attention for smaller companies from investors and analysts has been in strong decline. The rise of passive investing has outgrown active, fundamental investing — and the analysts followed the money out. Norbury Capital was created to exploit the pockets of the market where a lot of capital has left: a pond where access to management and information are abundant, while competition is limited.

30+ → barely

Companies that used to have more than 30 active institutional shareholders and 15+ experienced analysts covering them are now barely covered.

Passive > active

Index tracking has outgrown fundamental analysis — fewer active investors are doing the work in our fishing pond.

>10%

Daily share-price moves that used to be the exception are now the rule. For a prepared buyer, volatility is a source of entry points, not just risk.

Idea generation

Your squad is as strong as your bench.

Generating as many ideas as possible has been a key principle of the fund from day one. A strong team does not pick itself from eleven players: every name in the portfolio has to keep earning its shirt against the bench — a steady flow of new ideas warming up on the sideline. That keeps us critical, because long-term investors easily fall in love with their holdings, and the hurdle to substitute gets too high.

The smaller-positions bucket is where new players get minutes — names too small or too aggressive in risk/reward for a core shirt. Turnover there is higher, the horizon shorter, and every so often a bench player earns a starting place. With AI we can turn more stones than ever.

20Ideas on the bench
20–25In the starting squad
Thijs Buitenhuis and Ernest van Tuyll in Amsterdam
Thijs & Ernest — Amsterdam
The founders

Before the first whistle.

Reading the atmosphere. Speaking with suppliers, competitors, customers and investors. Testing views before they reach the headlines — then improving through honest post-mortems that push learning forward rather than protect ego.

Contact us

Come by for a coffee on the Prinsengracht.

If you'd like to learn more about our investment philosophy or request our fund documentation, please provide your details and we will get in touch with you.

Prinsengracht 235, 1015 DT Amsterdam · info@norburycapital.com