James Hawkins is a Partner and Head of the L1 Capital Catalyst Fund. James has run the Catalyst Fund since its inception in 2021. He is on the Investment Committee for the Fund and oversees all activist initiatives. 
 
Prior to joining L1 Capital, James spent nearly 10 years at Flagstaff Partners, where he was a Managing Director and Equity Partner who originated and executed M&A, equity and debt transactions. Previously, he worked at Macquarie Capital in Melbourne and New York where he was involved in a number of successful principal investments and a wide range of investment banking transactions after beginning his career at Clayton Utz as a solicitor. 
 
James holds a double degree in Law and Commerce from Monash University, with Honours in Law.

James Hawkins | L1 Capital

Partner and Head of the L1 Capital Catalyst Fund 

James Hawkins

James Hawkins discusses what has driven the Catalyst Fund's strong performance, where the team is finding opportunities today and why they continue to see significant upside across the portfolio. 
 
For wholesale investors only. Video can be accessed below.

* All performance figures are net of fees and as at 31 May 2026. Morningstar as at 31 May 2026. Ranking based on annualised net returns since inception (1 July 2021) of Australian equity funds available in the Morningstar database. Past performance should not be taken as an indicator of future performance. 
 
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L1 Capital Global Long Short (Offshore Feeder) Fund

This new strategy, launched in 2025, uses the L1 Capital Long Short Equities Team’s fundamental bottom-up research and portfolio management approach that has been established for last 10+ years, drawing on the team’s extensive global research network and track record of successful international stock picking.  The L1 Capital Global Long Short Fund (GLSF) is the next evolution of L1’s award-winning investment approach applying the same team, philosophy and process behind Australia’s best performing Long Short Fund (since inception in 2014)^ to a global investment universe.
GLSF targets high-quality, undervalued companies across developed markets, using a disciplined “Quality Value” approach. Backed by over $70 million of founder capital and managed by L1&#8217;s Co-Founders Mark Landau and Rafi Lamm, GLSF is designed for investors seeking strong risk-adjusted returns, capital protection in market downturns and true manager alignment.
 In this video, Mark Landau, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer, provides an in-depth overview of the L1 Capital Global Long Short Strategy (GLSF). Specifically, he discusses:

Introduction to GLSF (starts at 0:18 minutes)
GLSF | Same investment process, team and objectives as LSF (2:17 minutes)
GLSF performance (3:16 minutes)
GLSF | Protecting capital in down markets (4:16 minutes)
Leveraging the expertise of L1 Capital investment team (4:25 minutes)
GLSF | Examples of current investments (4:40 minutes)
GLSF portfolio positioning (10:55 minutes)
Alignment of interests (11:44 minutes)
Why invest in L1 Capital Global Long Short Fund? (12:52 minutes)

Released: November 2025.
This video and the information contained within it is intended solely for wholesale clients and is not intended to be delivered or made available, or relied upon or distributed by, retail clients. You should not view unless you are a wholesale client. To the extent permitted by law, L1 does not accept any responsibility arising in any way relating to the distribution or delivery of the video to retail clients.
 Investment philosophy
Both valuation and qualitative factors are the ultimate determinant of share price performance. Both factors are of critical importance. We believe that pure &#8216;value&#8217; managers may overemphasize valuation metrics and buy ‘value traps’. Conversely, &#8216;growth&#8217; managers may overemphasise growth or business quality and underestimate the importance of valuation and cashflows. Finally, the emotional, short term and backward-looking nature of markets presents opportunities for investors who are unemotional, long term and highly disciplined to avoid many typical behavioural biases (confirmation bias, loss aversion, herding bias and optimism bias) common among investors.
Investment process
The L1 Capital Long Short Equities Team combines valuation (primarily discounted cash flow) with qualitative considerations (management quality, long-term industry and company structure and business trends) to identify attractive investment opportunities. Given the strict valuation criteria in the process, there tends to be a slight value and contrarian bias.
The investment process is based on detailed fundamental stock research. The 12-person team&#8217;s comprehensive company visitation programme of several thousand company meetings a year includes one-on-one visits with company management, listed and unlisted competitors, customers, suppliers, operational personnel, regulators, consultants, unions and other parties that can help provide a deeper insight. The team have incorporated a bespoke research database and ranking tool (developed in 2007) which has been instrumental to the firm’s success and consistency.
This intensive, bottom-up stock selection has been a defining feature of L1 Capital’s approach since inception. It enables the L1 Capital team to put into context their detailed analysis of annual reports, company announcements, industry publications, broker reports and other relevant material, which, when combined with their financial modelling, allow them to form views on management quality, company structure and business trends.
Portfolio Construction and risk management
The portfolio typically comprises 40-80 positions across a wide range of sectors and themes. The Co-CIOs must each independently approve of each new position, long or short, for it to enter the portfolio.
Long positions reflect the stocks with the highest combined valuation and qualitative rankings from L1 Capital’s proprietary research, overlaid with consideration of asymmetry of likely returns, liquidity characteristics, individual stock contribution to risk and correlation between positions. Short positions typically are the lowest ranked stocks, reflecting being overvalued and exhibiting weak management, industry structure and operating trends, and, importantly, must have a clear catalyst for a share price fall. Shorts are held at a lower weight in the portfolio than an equivalent long to provide a buffer in case the shares rally in the meantime until the catalyst arrives.


L1 Capital Global Long Short Strategy

An absolute return fund that offers investors a highly diversified portfolio of long and short positions based on rigorous, fundamental research process The L1 Capital Long Short Strategy has three enduring advantages:

Market exposure: Ability and willingness to adjust the portfolio net long to reflect the risk/reward of the market.
Shorting: Portfolio is able to profit from falling share prices (as well as rising).
International exposure: Able to exploit research insights offshore, not just domestically, broadening the opportunity set beyond the Australian market.

Together, these three levers, which the Investment Team uses actively and with conviction, are tools for generating returns from all of the team’s investment and market insights.
The L1 Capital Long Short Fund’s competitive edge comes from:

L1’s investment process that combines valuation with qualitative considerations to identify attractive investment opportunities. The approach’s strict valuation criteria tends to produce a slight value and contrarian bias. At the core of the bottom-up, fundamental, research-driven approach is the team conducting several thousand company meetings each year.
Extensive network of contacts throughout corporate Australia and overseas that provides a more complete and up-to-date perspective on industry trends, inflection points, risks, etc. Many fund managers purely meet with company management and sell-side analysts, which the Australian Equities team believe provides a biased and narrow perspective on a company/industry.
Contrarian approach which has generated alpha from buying cyclical stocks at a low point in their cycle (and shorting at a high point) and overcoming behavioural biases that tend to promote momentum investing.



L1 Capital Long Short Fund

L1 Global Long Short Fund Limited&#8217;s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) allows shareholders to automatically reinvest their dividends into additional GLS shares, instead of receiving cash dividends. Shares acquired through the DRP are usually at a discount to the market price and do not incur any brokerage fees.
Key features of the DRP include the ability to:

Choose whether to reinvest either all or part of your dividend payments
Increase your shareholding free of brokerage, commission or other transaction costs
Select whether you participate in the DRP for each dividend that is paid
Receive a statement detailing your share allocation

 Participation
To participate in the DRP, or amend DRP participation, shareholders can update their own instructions via the share registry&#8217;s online Investor portal. Alternatively, please download the DRP Form and return to MUFG Corporate Markets (GLS&#8217; share registry) by email (forms@cm.mpms.mufg.com with the subject &#8216;DRP Election&#8217;) or by post.
Participation in the DRP is optional. Shareholders are strongly encouraged to seek financial advice before electing to participate and to read both the full terms and conditions in the DRP rules.
 Recent legislative changes to the Corporations Act 2001 effective 1 April 2022 mean there are new options available to you as a securityholder as to how you elect to receive your communications. We will no longer send you physical copies of documents unless you request to receive hard copies.
We encourage you to provide your email address so we can communicate with you electronically when securityholder notices become available online for such items as notice of meetings, dividend statements, annual reports as well as monthly and quarterly reporting. You can make a standing election to receive some or all of your securityholder communications in physical or electronic form.
To review or update your current communication preference simply log on to the share registry’s website. You will need your portfolio log in details or your Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) and select the Communications tab at the top of the page. Alternatively, please email the share registry, MUFG Corporate Markets or contact us for other ways to get in touch.
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 Registered Office  
L1 Capital Pty Limited
Level 45, 101 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 (3) 9286 7000
info@L1.com.au
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Share Registry  
MUFG Corporate Markets
A division of MUFG Pension &amp; Market Services
Tower 4, 727 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3008
1800 129 431
support@cm.mpms.mufg.com
https://www.mpms.mufg.com/en/mufg-corporate-markets/
When you visit the MUFG Corporate Markets investor centre, you will need your Security Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) to verify your identity.
Your SRN/HIN is available on your holding/transaction and distribution statements.
 L1 Global Long Short Fund Limited provides investors access to an absolute return fund that offers a highly diversified portfolio of long and short positions based on a fundamental bottom-up research process. The Company’s investment objective is to deliver strong, positive, risk-adjusted returns over the long term whilst seeking to preserve shareholder capital.
 Click here to view the L1 Capital ESG &amp; Responsible Investment Policy.
 The presentation deck is available here.


L1 Global Long Short Fund Limited (ASX:GLS)

L1 Long Short Fund Limited&#8217;s Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) allows shareholders to automatically reinvest their dividends into additional LSF shares, instead of receiving cash dividends. Shares acquired through the DRP are usually at a discount to the market price and do not incur any brokerage fees.
Key features of the DRP include the ability to:

Choose whether to reinvest either all or part of your dividend payments
Increase your shareholding free of brokerage, commission or other transaction costs
Select whether you participate in the DRP for each dividend that is paid
Receive a statement detailing your share allocation

Participation
To participate in the DRP, or amend DRP participation, shareholders can update their own instructions online via the share registry’s online Investor portal. Alternatively, please download the DRP Form and return to MUFG Corporate Markets (LSF’s share registry) by email (forms@cm.mpms.mufg.com with with the subject &#8216;DRP Election&#8217;) or by post.
Participation in the DRP is optional. Shareholders are strongly encouraged to seek financial advice before electing to participate and to read both the full terms and conditions in the DRP rules and the frequently asked questions.
 Recent legislative changes to the Corporations Act 2001 effective 1 April 2022 mean there are new options available to you as a securityholder as to how you elect to receive your communications. We will no longer send you physical copies of documents unless you request to receive hard copies.
We encourage you to provide your email address so we can communicate with you electronically when securityholder notices become available online for such items as notice of meetings, dividend statements, annual reports as well as monthly and quarterly reporting. You can make a standing election to receive some or all of your securityholder communications in physical or electronic form.
To review or update your current communication preference simply log on to the share registry’s website. You will need your portfolio log in details or your Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) and select the Communications tab at the top of the page. Alternatively, please email the share registry, MUFG Corporate Markets or contact us for other ways to get in touch.
&nbsp;
 Registered Office  
L1 Capital Pty Limited
Level 45, 101 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 (3) 9286 7000
info@L1.com.au
&nbsp;
Share Registry  
MUFG Corporate Markets
A division of MUFG Pension &amp; Market Services
Tower 4, 727 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3008
1800 129 431
support@cm.mpms.mufg.com
https://www.mpms.mufg.com/en/mufg-corporate-markets/
When you visit the MUFG Corporate Markets investor centre, you will need your Security Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) to verify your identity.
Your SRN/HIN is available on your holding/transaction and distribution statements.
 L1 Long Short Fund Limited provides investors access to an absolute return fund that offers a highly diversified portfolio of long and short positions based on a fundamental bottom-up research process. The Company’s investment objective is to deliver strong, positive, risk-adjusted returns over the long term whilst seeking to preserve shareholder capital.
 Click here to view the L1 Capital ESG &amp; Responsible Investment Policy.


L1 Long Short Fund Limited (ASX:LSF)

View current and historical unit pricing here.


L1 Capital Long Short Fund – Daily Class

View current and historical unit pricing here.


L1 Capital Long Short Fund – Monthly Class

L1 Capital Long Short (Offshore Feeder) Fund

Past performance should not be taken as an indicator of future performance.
 View current and historical unit pricing here.


L1 Capital International (Unhedged) Active ETF (ASX:L1IF)

Applying a hands-on ‘owner’s mindset’, the Fund typically invests in a concentrated portfolio of around 10 stocks that the team believes offers a compelling combination 
of value and quality with a major positive catalyst to drive investor returns View current and historical unit pricing here.


L1 Capital Catalyst Fund

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