If you are a longer-term shareholder of Avita Medical (ASX:AVH), it is likely you would have experienced a rather disappointing journey over the past 12 months. COVID-19 and lockdowns in the US have stymied the RECELL roll-out just as it was gaining steam, as well as preventing recruitment for its various label extension plays in vitiligo, paediatric scalds and wound care.

Economic reopening and cyclical reflation trades have rewarded investors handsomely over the past six months or so, particularly those offering immediate leverage to the stronger than expected demand recovery scenario currently playing out.

  Despite a challenging backdrop through COVID, National Storage REIT (ASX:NSR) has continued its strong trajectory into 2H FY21, supported by market conditions and ongoing portfolio optimisation. The self-storage sector has demonstrated its resilience through COVID and is benefitting from changes to how people live and work.

IPOs can give you wonderful returns if you get them right, but burn your money if you don’t. And that’s clearly shown in the trajectories of the companies that have listed since the COVID-induced market lows in March 2020. Because, while there were some big winners – like Cettire (ASX:CTT), Aussie Broadband (ASX:ABB) and Universal Stores (ASX:UNI), there were also some clear losers.

In March Montgomery Investment Management introduced the Polen Capital Global Growth Fund to Australian investors. In this series of articles the team at Polen Capital describe companies currently in the portfolio.

CoreLogic has just reported that national dwelling prices rose by 2. 3 per cent in May. That’s an annualised rate of more than 28 per cent. And with lenders continuing to provide cheap and easy access to credit, and investors showing lots of interest, I don’t see the property market cooling off any time soon.

Capricorn Metals is a junior gold company that is entering an exciting time in its development phase. With the company very close to first gold pour and commissioning underway at its 100 per cent owned Karlawinda project in WA, we believe there is significant re-rating potential if the company successfully executes on targeted project metrics over the next 6-12 months.

In March Montgomery Investment Management introduced the Polen Capital Global Growth Fund to Australian investors. The Boca Raton-based manager Polen Capital was established in 1979 and over the past 32 years the flagship US Portfolio has been able to compound earnings growth above 15 per cent annually versus approximately six per cent annually for the S&P 500.

Over the past year or so, we’ve seen spikes in the valuations of fast growth, momentum stocks. But if inflation rears its head, that could change in a heartbeat. Which is why the next big rotation could see these over-valued – often profitless – firms dumped in favour of long-duration quality tech businesses.