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28 Sep 2020 - Performance Report: Australian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date28 September 2020
ManagerAustralian Eagle Asset Management
Fund NameAustralian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateAugust 2020
Latest Return1.83%
Latest 6 Months8.77%
Latest 12 Months8.76%
Latest 24 Months (pa)13.08%
Annualised Since Inception18.08%
Inception Date27 June 2016
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewThe Australian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund aims to achieve strong double digit returns by allowing clients to access Australian Eagle's demonstrated historical strength in constructing Australian share portfolios applied to a long-short product. Using a combination of Australian Eagle's actual long investment performance in conjunction with a short selling discipline, suggests that this product can provide strong investment returns along with an alpha performance that is negatively correlated to the broader Australian equity market.
Manager CommentsThe Australian Eagle Trust Long Short Fund rose +1.83% in August, taking 12-month performance to +8.76% vs the ASX200 Accumulation Index's -5.08%. Since inception in July 2016, the Fund has returned +18.08% p.a. vs the Index's annualised return over the same period of +7.89%. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios, 1.09 and 1.53 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.51 and Sortino of 0.54, highlight its capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns while avoiding the market's downside volatility.

The portfolio's largest positive contributors for the month came from long positions in IDP Education Ltd, Xero Ltd and a short position in Whitehaven Coal Ltd, while the largest detractors were a long position in ResMed Inc and short positions in WiseTech Global Ltd and Flight Centre Ltd. The Fund ended the month with 32 long positions and 22 short positions, with the largest exposure being to medical devices & services and technology stocks. The Fund ended the month with relatively less exposure to banking and real estate stocks.
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