Artemis UK Smaller Companies Fund Half-Yearly Report (unaudited) for the six months ended 30 June 2021 Keep up to date ... ... with the performance of this and other Artemis funds throughout the year on Artemis’ website ■ Monthly fund commentaries and factsheets ■ Market and fund insights ■ Fund briefings and research articles ■ The Hunters’ Tails, our weekly market newsletter ■ Daily fund prices ■ Fund literature artemisfunds.com General information Objective and investment policy Company profile Objective To grow capital over a five year period. Artemis is a leading UK-based fund manager, offering a range Investment What the fund • 80% to 100% in shares of smaller of funds which invest in the UK, Europe, the US and around policy invests in companies. • Up to 20% in bonds, cash and near cash, the world. other transferable securities, other funds (up to 10%) managed by Artemis and third As a dedicated, active investment house, we specialise in party funds, money market instruments, investment management for both retail and institutional and derivatives. investors across Europe. Use of The fund may use derivatives for efficient derivatives portfolio management purposes to: Independent and owner-managed, Artemis opened • reduce risk for business in 1997. Its aim was, and still is, exemplary • manage the fund efficiently. investment performance and client service. All Artemis’ Where the United Kingdom, including companies in staff share these two precepts – and the same flair and fund invests other countries that are headquartered or enthusiasm for fund management. have a significant part of their activities in the United Kingdom. The firm now manages some £27.9 billion* across a range Industries the • Any of funds, two investment trusts and both pooled and fund invests in segregated institutional portfolios. Other • None limitations Our managers invest in their own and their colleagues’ funds. specific to this fund This has been a basic tenet of the Artemis approach since the firm started. It means that interests of our fund managers Investment • The fund is actively managed. strategy • The manager adopts a long-term investment approach. are directly aligned with those of our investors. • The manager seeks to mostly invest in companies with predictable and/or growing cashflow streams which require * Source: Artemis as at 31 July 2021. little additional capital to sustain. • The manager identifies smaller companies with reference to their relative market capitalisation. Fund status Benchmarks • Numis Smaller Companies (-InvTrust) TR Artemis UK Smaller Companies Fund was constituted by a A widely-used indicator of the performance of the UK Trust Deed dated 17 March 1998 and is an authorised unit smaller companies stockmarket, in which the fund invests. It acts as a ‘comparator benchmark’ against which trust scheme under the Financial Services and Markets Act the fund’s performance can be compared. Management of 2000. The fund belongs to the category of UCITS schemes as the fund is not restricted by this benchmark. • IA UK Smaller Companies NR defined in the Collective Investment Schemes Sourcebook A group of other asset managers’ funds that invest in (‘COLL’) of the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’). similar asset types as this fund, collated by the Investment Association. It acts as a ‘comparator benchmark’ against which the fund’s performance can be compared. Management of the fund is not restricted by this Buying and selling benchmark. Units may be bought and sold by contacting the manager by telephone, at the address on page 5 or via the website artemisfunds.com. Valuation of the fund takes place each business day at 12 noon on a forward pricing basis. Investors are reminded that past performance is not a guarantee of performance in the future and that the price of units and the revenue from them can fall as well as rise. 3 Risk and reward profile Other information Prospectus Potentially lower rewards Potentially higher rewards Lower risk Higher risk Copies of the most recent Prospectus are available free of charge from the manager at the address on page 5. Tax information reporting ̥ The fund is in the category shown due to historic volatility (how much and how quickly the value of shares UK tax legislation requires fund managers to provide in the fund may have risen and fallen in the past due to information to HM Revenue & Customs (‘HMRC’) on certain movements in markets, currencies and interest rates). It investors who purchase units in unit trusts. Accordingly, the may not be a reliable indication of the future risk profile fund may have to provide information annually to HMRC on of the fund. the tax residencies of those unitholders that are tax resident ̥ The risk category has been calculated using historic data outwith the UK, in those countries that have signed up to and may not be a reliable indicator of the fund’s future the OECD’s (‘Organisation for Economic Co-operation and risk profile. Development’) Common Reporting Standard for Automatic ̥ A risk indicator of “1” does not mean that the investment Exchange of Financial Account Information (the ‘Common is “risk free”. Reporting Standard’), or the United States (under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, ‘FATCA’). The risk indicator may not fully take into account the following risks and the following may affect fund All new unitholders that invest in the fund must complete performance: a certification form as part of the application form. Existing unitholders may also be contacted by the Registrar should any ̥ Market volatility risk: The value of the fund and any income from it can fall or rise because of movements extra information be needed to correctly determine their tax in stockmarkets, currencies and interest rates, residence. Failure to provide this information may result in the each of which can move irrationally and be affected account being reported to HMRC. unpredictably by diverse factors, including political and For further information, please see HMRC’s Quick Guide: economic events. Automatic Exchange of Information – information for account ̥ Currency risk: The fund’s assets may be priced in holders: gov.uk/government/publications/exchange-of currencies other than the fund base currency. Changes information- account-holders. in currency exchange rates can therefore affect the fund’s value. Value assessment ̥ Concentration risk: The fund may have investments Artemis Fund Managers Limited (AFML) has conducted a concentrated in a limited number of holdings. This can detailed assessment on whether its funds are providing value to be more risky than holding a wider range of investments. unitholders in response to newly introduced regulations. AFML ̥ Smaller companies risk: Investing in small and medium- must publish publicly on an annual basis, a statement setting sized companies can involve more risk than investing in out a summary of the outcome of the process and whether or larger, more established companies. Shares in smaller not AFML believes the payments out of the scheme property companies may not be as easy to sell, which can cause are justified in the context of the overall value delivered to difficulty in valuing those shares. unitholders. Composite reports on Assessment of Value have Please refer to the fund’s prospectus for full details of these been published via the website artemisfunds.com. and other risks which are applicable to this fund. 4 Manager Report of the manager Artemis Fund Managers Limited * We hereby approve the Half-Yearly Report of the Artemis Cassini House UK Smaller Companies Fund for the six months ended 30 57 St James’s Street June 2021 on behalf of Artemis Fund Managers Limited in London SW1A 1LD accordance with the requirements of COLL as issued and amended by the FCA. Dealing information: Artemis Fund Managers Limited PO Box 9688 M J Murray L E Cairney Chelmsford CM99 2AE Telephone: 0800 092 2051 Director Director Artemis Fund Managers Limited Website: artemisfunds.com London 25 August 2021 Investment adviser Artemis Investment Management LLP * Cassini House 57 St James’s Street London SW1A 1LD Trustee and Depositary J.P. Morgan Europe Limited † 25 Bank Street Canary Wharf London E14 5JP Registrar SS&C Financial Services International Limited * SS&C House St Nicholas Lane Basildon Essex SS15 5FS Auditor Ernst & Young LLP Atria One 144 Morrison Street Edinburgh EH3 8EX * Authorised and regulated by the FCA, 12 Endeavour Square, London E20 1JN. † Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (‘PRA’), 20 Moorgate, London EC2R 6DA and regulated by the PRA and the FCA. 5 Investment review ̥ As economies reopen and demand bounces back, profits value) saw forecasts for earnings per share falling by more are rising. than 10%). We cannot remember a time when the ratio of ̥ The fund returned 24.7%* over the last six months versus positive to negative surprises was higher. 17.4%* from the benchmark index. Holdings where earnings per share ̥ The rush of takeover bids seen over the last 18 months forecasts have risen by 10% or shows little sign of slowing. more… Size of upgrade… Performance – Ahead of the pack… 1. Biffa +18% 2. Centaur Media +20% Perhaps the most notable feature of the last six months has been the breadth of the recovery. Confidence among 3. Dunelm +18% businesses and consumers alike has recovered far more 4. Future +15% quickly than it did in the aftermath of previous recessions. 5. Halfords +22% The ample liquidity provided by central banks, the huge 6. Lookers +75% support from governments and the releasing of pent-up 7. Morgan Advanced +12% demand from consumers as lockdowns ease have all contributed. 8. Morgan Sindall +16% 9. Northbridge +16% The fund returned 24.7% over the first half of the year, significantly ahead of both the 17.4% return from the 10. Norcros +10% benchmark Numis Smaller Companies (-InvTrust) TR index 11.