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19 Aug 2020 - Performance Report: Quay Global Real Estate Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date18 August 2020
ManagerQuay Global Investors
Fund NameQuay Global Real Estate Fund
StrategyReal Estate
Latest Return DateJuly 2020
Latest Return-0.54%
Latest 6 Months-19.46%
Latest 12 Months-11.71%
Latest 24 Months (pa)2.00%
Annualised Since Inception5.30%
Inception Date31 July 2014
FUM (millions)AU$164.6
Fund OverviewQuay is a boutique investment management business established in 2013 with a focus on preserving and creating wealth for investors through investments in real estate securities. Quay uses a dual manager approach to the investment and portfolio management decision making process. This involves both Principals collaborating to determine significant portfolio investments and positions.

The Fund will invest in a number of global listed real estate companies, groups or funds. The investment strategy is to make investments in real estate securities at a price that will deliver a real, after inflation, total return of 5% per annum (before costs and fees), inclusive of distributions over a longer-term period.

The Investment Strategy is indifferent to the constraints of any index benchmarks and is relatively concentrated in its number of investments. The Fund is expected to own between 20 and 40 securities, and from time to time up to 20% of the portfolio maybe invested in cash. The Fund is $A un-hedged.
Manager CommentsThe Quay Global Real Estate Fund returned -0.5% in July. This return comprised +2.3% from underlying stock performance and -2.8% from the impact of currency. Since inception in Jan 2016, the Fund has returned +5.30% p.a. with an annualised volatility of 12.02%.

For the month, the greatest positive contributions to returns were from Safestore (UK Storage), Leg Immobilien (German Residential) and Stag Industrial (US Industrial). Key detractors included Wharf REIC (HK Retail), Hysan (HK Diversified) and Brixmor (US Retail).

Quay noted that, thematically, the market continues to support those stocks that are perceived to have the most defensive revenue profiles - Industrials, Data Centres and European Residential and Health as examples. At the other end of the spectrum, sectors like Retail, Hong Kong, Urban Residential and Seniors Housing have lagged. However, post month-end and part-way through 2Q20 reporting season they are seeing some strength return to some of these laggards as they deliver results slightly ahead of what were dismal expectations.
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