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14 Oct 2020 - Performance Report: Datt Capital Absolute Return Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date14 October 2020
ManagerDatt Capital
Fund NameDatt Capital Absolute Return Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateSeptember 2020
Latest Return-2.05%
Latest 6 Months60.74%
Latest 12 Months36.17%
Latest 24 Months (pa)22.44%
Annualised Since Inception21.30%
Inception Date01 August 2018
FUM (millions)AU$6
Fund OverviewThe Fund utilises a long term investment approach focused on capital preservation and absolute wealth accumulation.

Our investment objectives are:

1) To minimise the risk of permanent capital loss
2) Generate a net return of 10% through the economic cycle

An unconstrained, concentrated approach focused on superior risk-adjusted returns.

The investment strategy:

- targets long-term capital growth in a prudent manner, with an emphasis on capital preservation and low volatility in returns
- aims to outperform in markets where equities are down
- diversifies investments across asset classes and duration to reduce risk while maintaining relatively concentrated exposure to attractive investment opportunities
- is an application of the Manager's investment process, that has no institutional constraints and is completely benchmark unaware
Manager CommentsThe Datt Capital Absolute Return Fund has returned +36.17% over the past 12 months, outperforming the ASX200 Accumulation Index by +46.38% with up-capture and down-capture ratios of 228.1% and 63.2% respectively, highlighting significant outperformance in both the market's positive and negative months. Since inception in August 2018, the Fund has returned +21.30% p.a. against the Index's annualised return of +0.52 with the same level of volatility. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios (since inception), 1.03 and 1.63 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.08 and Sortino of -0.03, highlight its capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns while avoiding the market's downside volatility over the long-term.

The Fund returned -2.05% in September, outperforming the Index by +1.61%. During the month Datt Capital further trimmed the Fund's exposure to the markets in anticipation of an increase in volatility leading into the US election. Datt noted they are tracking a number of attractive new opportunities and intend on taking advantage of any volatility by increasing the portfolio's exposure at the opportune time.

Datt Capital expect a range of upcoming catalysts on the horizon for their core holdings to provide good upside should they be realised, despite the Fund's large cash holding. The Fund ended the month with 23% of the portfolio in CRE debt, 52% in equities and 25% in cash.
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