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3 Nov 2020 - Performance Report: Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date03 November 2020
ManagerBennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP), a Bennelong boutique
Fund NameBennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateSeptember 2020
Latest Return-1.93%
Latest 6 Months31.97%
Latest 12 Months11.52%
Latest 24 Months (pa)8.42%
Annualised Since Inception16.08%
Inception Date30 January 2009
FUM (millions)AU$1077.87
Fund OverviewBennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) is a boutique asset manager offering Australian equities solutions for institutional and retail clients. The business was founded in 2008 by Paul Cuddy and Mark East, in partnership with Bennelong Funds Management. Prior to establishing BAEP, Paul and Mark were Co-Heads of Australian Equities at ING Investment Management.

The overriding objective of the Concentrated Australian Equities Fund is to seek investment opportunities which are under-appreciated and have the potential to deliver positive earnings, while satisfying our stringent quality criteria. Bennelong's investment process combines bottom-up fundamental analysis together with proprietary investment tools which are used to build and maintain high quality portfolios that are risk aware.
The portfolio typically consists of 20-35 high-conviction stocks from the S&P/ASX 300 Index.

The Fund may invest in securities listed on other exchanges where such securities relate to ASX-listed securities. Derivative instruments are mainly used to replicate underlying positions and hedge market and company specific risks.
Manager CommentsThe Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund returned -1.93% for the month of September outperforming the ASX 200 Accumulation Index which returned -3.66%. Over 12 months to the end of September the fund has returned -0.24% versus the index performance of -10.21%. The fund has outperformed the ASX 200 Accumulation Index by an average of 2.28% per month over the past 6 months. For the 12 months to the end of September the funds up capture ratio was 166.79% and its down capture ratio was 83.65%.

The funds portfolio weightings remain significantly overweight to the Discretionary (26.9% active) and Health Care (10.9% active) sectors. The Health Care active position has reduced slightly from the previous month. The fund continues to hold zero exposure to the Communications, Energy and Utilities Sectors with significant underweight exposure to Financials (-19.8%).
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