About Us
Lancaster Grove Capital is a specialist strategic investor relations advisory firm, founded with the mission to represent ASX-listed companies trading significantly below their intrinsic value. We focus on high-quality businesses with strong competitive advantages, providing tailored investor relations services to position them effectively within the market. By concentrating on a select group of clients, we ensure personalised attention and strategic alignment. Importantly, Lancaster Grove Capital operates with complete independence, free from conflicts of interest. We are solely dedicated to representing our clients and are not remunerated by investors or brokers in any way.
Our Services
Lancaster Grove Capital provides a comprehensive suite of investor relations services, including targeted shareholder communication, strategic market messaging, and effective investor marketing. We ensure regular engagement with current and potential investors, optimise market communications and presentations, manage results roadshows, and coordinate closely with brokers to enhance visibility and address market dynamics.
Shareholder Targeting
We communicate regularly with shareholders, target new investors to grow the institutional register, provide updates to clients, and work with brokers to promote retail ownership.
Market Messaging
We offer strategic input on market communications, optimize messaging through stakeholder relationships, assist with investment case positioning, and provide insights on valuation, while actively participating in key events like strategy days and AGMs.
Investor Marketing
We manage the results roadshow by arranging meetings with shareholders, new targets, and brokers, ensuring timely updates are highlighted, targeting non-covering brokers, co-ordinating investor days, and exploring both local and offshore roadshows to boost visibility and liquidity.
Broker & Research
Co-ordination
We actively engage with brokers, educating sales desks on our client’s key messages, encouraging proactive brokering, and maintaining ongoing dialogue to address market issues and gain insights into trading activity.
Meet the Founder
Trevor Franz
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Trevor has over 21 years’ equity capital markets (ECM) experience, most recently as Head of Equity Syndicate at CBA and Head of Capital Markets at Commsec. Prior to CBA, Trevor was an ECM director for UBS in London and Sydney.
Trevor graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics Major) and has a degree from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Trevor has extensive relationships with the Australian market across both the institutional and retail investor base. In addition, Trevor has executed and advised on numerous public offerings globally.