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| Fund Overview | The Bennelong Australian Equities Fund seeks quality investment opportunities which are under-appreciated and have the potential to deliver positive earnings. The investment process combines bottom-up fundamental analysis with proprietary investment tools that are used to build and maintain high quality portfolios that are risk aware. The investment team manages an extensive company/industry contact program which helps identify and verify various investment opportunities. The companies within the portfolio are primarily selected from, but not limited to, the S&P/ASX 300 Index. The Fund may invest in securities listed on other exchanges where such securities relate to the ASX-listed securities. The Fund typically holds between 25-60 stocks with a maximum net targeted position of an individual stock of 6%. |
| Manager Comments | The fund's returns over the past 12 months have been achieved with a volatility of 11.19% vs the index's 10.35%. The annualised volatility of the fund's returns since inception in January 2009 is 14.51% vs the index's 13.54%. Over all other periods, the fund's returns have been more volatile than the index. The fund's Sharpe ratio has ranged from a high of 3.38 for performance over the most recent 12 months to a low of 0.89 over the latest 36 months, and is 0.9 for performance since inception. By contrast, the ASX 200 Total Return Index's Sharpe for performance since February 2009 is 0.65. Since inception in January 2009 in the months where the market was positive, the fund has provided positive returns 93% of the time, contributing to an up-capture ratio for returns since inception of 144.11%. Over all other periods, the fund's up-capture ratio has ranged from a high of 151.92% over the most recent 24 months to a low of 136.91% over the latest 36 months. An up-capture ratio greater than 100% indicates that, on average, the fund has outperformed in the market's positive months over the specified period. |
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