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5 Mar 2021 - Performance Report: DS Capital Growth Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors

Report Date05 March 2021
ManagerDS Capital
Fund NameDS Capital Growth Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateFebruary 2021
Latest Return2.20%
Latest 6 Months13.19%
Latest 12 Months27.61%
Latest 24 Months (pa)20.90%
Annualised Since Inception16.00%
Inception Date01 January 2013
FUM (millions)AU$324
Fund OverviewThe Fund aims to deliver an average return of at least 10% p.a. through the economic cycle, with a focus on capital preservation. The Fund will comprise a concentrated portfolio of small and mid-cap investments selected through a process of quantitative and qualitative analysis.

The investment team looks for industrial businesses that are simple to understand; they generally avoid large caps, pure mining, biotech and start-ups.

They also look for:

- Access to management;
- Businesses with a competitive edge;
- Profitable companies with good margins, organic growth prospects, strong market position and a track record of healthy dividend growth;
- Sectors with structural advantage and barriers to entry;
- 15% p.a. pre-tax compound return on each holding; and
- A history of stable and predictable cash flows that DS Capital can understand and value.
Manager CommentsThe DS Capital Growth Fund rose +2.20% in February, outperforming the ASX200 Accumulation Index by +0.75% and taking 12-month performance to +27.61% vs the Index's +6.48%. Since inception in January 2013, the Fund has returned +15.99% p.a. vs the Index's +8.94%. The Fund has achieved up-capture and down-capture ratios over the past 12 months of 142.7% and 77.4%, highlighting its significant outperformance during both the market's positive and negative months.

The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios (since inception), 1.23 and 1.83 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.57 and Sortino of 0.69, highlight its capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns while avoiding the market's downside volatility. The Fund's capacity to outperform in negative markets is demonstrated by its down-capture ratio (since inception) of 45% which indicates that, on average, the Fund has fallen less than half as much as the market during the market's negative months.
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