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17 Nov 2020 - Performance Report: Harvest Lane Asset Management Absolute Return Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date17 November 2020
ManagerHarvest Lane Asset Management
Fund NameHarvest Lane Asset Management Absolute Return Fund
StrategyEquity Market Neutral
Latest Return DateOctober 2020
Latest Return3.61%
Latest 6 Months11.98%
Latest 12 Months-7.68%
Latest 24 Months (pa)-2.39%
Annualised Since Inception5.95%
Inception Date01 July 2013
FUM (millions)AU$13.1
Fund OverviewThe Fund aims to deliver a return of greater than 10% p.a. after all fees and charges over a 3 year period with low or no correlation to the Australian equity market. By focusing on select takeover and corporate activity the fund aims to achieve this whilst also exhibiting lower than average volatility than the market.

Harvest Lane Asset Management employs a conservative, highly selective and opportunistic approach. Using their extensive knowledge in the area of corporate actions, the Fund's managers assess each opportunity based on a thoughtful, diligent and disciplined process and invest where they believe an opportunity exists to generate above average investment returns relative to the risk incurred.

Investment decisions are made without speculating on market direction, with rigid risk controls enforced to minimise the risk of large losses of investor capital. The Fund invests in securities that are predominantly listed on the ASX and occasionally in those listed in other developed markets. Equity swaps and other derivatives may be used at times to reduce risk. The fund typically holds high levels of cash in the absence of sufficiently attractive opportunities to deploy investor capital in accordance with its objectives.
Manager CommentsThe Harvest Lane Absolute Return Fund rose 3.61% in October, outperforming the ASX200 Accumulation Index by 1.68% and ending the 12 months to the end of October down -7.68% vs the Index's -8.15%. Since inception in July 2013, the Fund has returned 5.95% p.a. vs the Index's annualised return of 7.34%. The Fund's down-capture ratio since inception of 10.36% indicates that, on average, the Fund has fallen approximately 10% as far as the market during the market's negative months.

Harvest Lane noted that after three months of comparatively outsized returns to start FY 20-21, the highlight of the month was not so much the continuation of recent performance, but the breadth and quality of new opportunities that appeared. They have said that deal flow in recent months has mainly been focused in the smaller end of the market while confidence in M&A has remained low and that there has been a general lack of larger size transactions for various reasons.

Harvest Lane are encouraged by recent results and believe the portfolio is primed to continue its run of good performance to finish the year.
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