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18 May 2022 - Performance Report: Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund
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Manager Comments | The Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund has a track record of 13 years and 3 months and has outperformed the ASX 200 Total Return Index since inception in February 2009, providing investors with an annualised return of 15.07% compared with the index's return of 10.37% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has experienced a negative annual return on 2 occasions in the 13 years and 3 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -20.9% vs the index's -6.35%, and since inception in February 2009 the fund's largest drawdown was -24.11% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -26.75%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in February 2020 and lasted 6 months, reaching its lowest point during March 2020. The fund had completely recovered its losses by August 2020. The Manager has delivered these returns with 1.81% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 five times over the past five years and which currently sits at 0.86 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 90% of the time in rising markets and 19% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 137% and a down-capture ratio of 94%. |
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18 May 2022 - Perception vs Reality: When a good story trumps rationality
Perception vs Reality: When a good story trumps rationality Colins St Asset Management April 2022 |
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Despite our best efforts, human nature dictates that in life and in investing we often find ourselves making irrational decisions. That's not to say that those decisions aren't reasonable, but instead that most people prefer to act 'reasonably' rather than rationally.
In the early 1900's a doctor by the name of Julius Wagner-Lauregg began testing the premise that a fever as treatment for certain ailments could dramatically reduce mortality. He tested his theory on patients with neurosyphilis and discovered that his patients (with an induced fever) had twice the survival rate of patients left untreated. Dr Wagner-Lauregg went on to win a Nobel Prize in 1927 for his discovery before Penicillin was discovered and made his treatments redundant. Nonetheless, his research clearly identified the healing properties of a fever, and its usefulness in treating illness. Yet, despite his discovery, and despite the fact that modern medicine recognises the fever's role in the healing process, I know very few people who wouldn't immediately offer their sick child Panadol at the earliest signs of an increased temperature. The challenge is that what we know and how we feel are in direct conflict. We may recognise the benefits of the fever, but at the same time, we can't stand the thought of our child suffering. The same is often the case in investments. Even for those not speculating, for those who know the underlying value of a business, it's no easy feat to watch the value of one's holdings fall (considerably) and not feel the pull of the emotional pain of that loss. The Cost of Loss: Most parents and investors act reasonably in their avoidance of pain and suffering. Reasonably, but not rationally. Rational investment decision making requires one to look past how they feel about an idea, and instead focus on the numbers. However, that is a concept far simpler in principle than in practice. You see, psychological studies have often found that the pain felt from an investment loss is considerably greater than the joy felt by a gain. In fact, that loss:gain coefficient is thought to be as high as 2.5x. Take a moment for yourself as you read this now to consider what your own loss:gain coefficient might be. Consider a coin toss scenario (a 50/50 toss). Now consider a meaningful stake; a potential loss of $250,000 (for some that might be $200, or $2million). How much would you need to be offered to win in order to risk losing that $250,000?
The psychology is very interesting, and within that psychology lies the vast majority of our opportunities as fund managers. Our role is quite simple: recognise those emotional drivers that push investors into irrational decision making, and when the difference between the reasonable and the rational is wide enough, to take advantage. Keeping Things Simple: Even in the face of identifying emotional behaviours in the market it's not enough. At the risk of stretching an analogy, there are plenty of tasty looking fruit on the tree, and common thinking seems to be that investors should focus first on those lowest hanging fruit. We take a different approach. We don't want to pick fruit at all. Why stretch and stress when there are wonderful ideas already lying on the floor. I'd rather pick up a watermelon (investment idea) off the floor than stretch to pick an apple any day of the week. And there are plenty of 'watermelon' ideas available to those looking for them. They aren't necessarily as exciting as the more complex highly prospective ideas, but they are simple, they are profitable, and there is far less chance of falling off a ladder (getting oneself into financial trouble) if you aren't climbing one. "The fewer the steps between an idea and its success the better." That may seem anecdotally obvious, but the numbers describe a very compelling story. Imagine for a moment that we were investing geniuses. So good are we at investing that we could accurately predict outcomes at a rate of 70%. Now by most accounts, a 70% accuracy rating in investing terms would generate extraordinary outcomes. Simply by predicting earnings outcomes would mean that we are right 7 out of 10 times, and no doubt our results would be great. But what if, on top of having to accurately predict earnings, we also needed to predict market growth rates, or margins, or the outcome of a strategy adjustment? Well, if we need to predict two factors accurately to generate a positive investment outcome, our strike rate falls from 70% to (70%x70%) 49%! If we are required to accurately predict three factors to generate a positive outcome, that rate falls all the way down to 34%. The more decisions we need to get right, the lower our strike rate. And from what started off as an enviable and impressive 70% very rapidly deteriorates to getting things wrong more often than getting them right. It's not just unnecessary to invest in complex ideas, it's hubris to think that we as investors have the capacity to know the full impact of each variation and how it may play out in markets. Recognising the importance of keeping things simple truly is the ultimate indication of investing sophistication.
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18 May 2022 - The forgotten asset class set to outperform in 2022
The forgotten asset class set to outperform in 2022 Yarra Capital Management 05 May 2022 Against a backdrop of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, rising inflation and rate hikes, Australian investors are searching for investments that can benefit from these evolving market conditions. With credit spreads at attractive levels, now might be the opportune time to have exposure to hybrids and credit. With minimal returns on cash continuing to underpin strong demand for hybrid securities, we anticipate demand for yield to remain robust throughout 2022, resulting in strong returns over the year for this asset class. The upside of rising interest ratesRising inflation, above average GDP growth and the unwinding of quantitative easing (QE) in 2022 has seen financial markets reprice interest rate expectations. The rising rate environment will push the outright return on hybrid securities higher, without having a material impact on spreads given the strong economic backdrop. Given most hybrids are floating rate, investors will benefit via higher income from these rising short-term rates. Strong balance sheets you can bank onAustralian banks are the largest issuers of hybrids domestically and their balance sheets are in fantastic shape, with capital ratios at historical high levels. COVID-19 provided Australian banks with access to cheap funding via the Term Funding Facility (TFF), which provided them with a degree of funding certainty and lower funding costs. Following the withdrawal of the TFF in 2021, new bank issuance is coming to market at attractive credit margins, providing the ideal environment for active credit managers to identify the most positive risk adjusted opportunities. For instance, bank senior credit margins are significantly off their TFF lows, which is leading to an attractive re-pricing across all bank capital issuance (refer to Chart 1). Overvalued growth sectors are likely to lead an equity market sell off similar to 2000 - 02, but are unlikely to impact credit market returns. Chart 1: Bank senior credit margins - Well-Off their TFF 2021 lowsThe higher the carry (running yield of an investment), the greater the protection it offers investors from adverse movements in credit margins. The carry for the Yarra Enhanced Income Fund is currently sitting at ~3.0% above cash. Based on an average portfolio maturity of ~3 years, we'd need to see an extreme 1.0% move wider in credit margins to wipe-out the carry. However, given the robust economic backdrop in 2022, we expect credit margins to remain relatively stable throughout, adding to floating rate credit's income generating credentials. This benign outlook is in contrast to the capital losses currently being observed in traditional fixed income due to the reset in interest rates and real yields. Usually, a rise in real yields will impact the value of everything long interest rate duration, from traditional fixed income to most equities. That's not the case with floating rate credit, since its short duration offers protection to portfolio valuations from rising interest rates. This is observable in EIF's outperformance compared to traditional fixed income (Bloomberg Composite Index) since February 2020 (see Chart 2). Chart 2: Floating rate credit with carry continues to outperform fixed rate with little carryMaking the gradeIn a world that seems to be getting riskier by the minute, investment grade hybrids look to be a safe haven for investors. Here's why:
Getting exposure to hybrids and creditBeing able to access fixed rate securities for floating rate portfolios remains a key competitive advantage for Yarra's clients. The Yarra Enhanced Income Fund invests in high yielding, floating rate credit and hybrid securities to deliver better returns than traditional cash management and fixed income investments. |
Funds operated by this manager: Yarra Australian Equities Fund, Yarra Emerging Leaders Fund, Yarra Enhanced Income Fund, Yarra Income Plus Fund |
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17 May 2022 - Performance Report: Glenmore Australian Equities Fund
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Fund Overview | The main driver of identifying potential investments will be bottom up company analysis, however macro-economic conditions will be considered as part of the investment thesis for each stock. |
Manager Comments | The Glenmore Australian Equities Fund has a track record of 4 years and 11 months and therefore comparison over all market conditions and against its peers is limited. However, the fund has outperformed the ASX 200 Total Return Index since inception in June 2017, providing investors with an annualised return of 25.4% compared with the index's return of 9.58% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund hasn't experienced any negative annual returns in the 4 years and 11 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -8.65% vs the index's -6.35%, and since inception in June 2017 the fund's largest drawdown was -36.91% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -26.75%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in October 2019 and lasted 1 year and 1 month, reaching its lowest point during March 2020. The fund had completely recovered its losses by November 2020. The Manager has delivered these returns with 7.18% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has only fallen below 1 once over the past four years and which currently sits at 1.13 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 90% of the time in rising markets and 42% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 232% and a down-capture ratio of 96%. |
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17 May 2022 - Performance Report: Insync Global Capital Aware Fund
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Fund Overview | Insync invests in a concentrated portfolio of high quality companies that possess long 'runways' of future growth benefitting from Megatrends. Megatrends are multiyear structural and disruptive changes that transform the way we live our daily lives and result from a convergence of different underlying trends including innovation, politics, demographics, social attitudes and lifestyles. They provide important tailwinds to individual stocks and sectors, that reside within them. Insync believe this delivers exponential earnings growth ahead of market expectations. The fund uses Put Options to help buffer the depth and duration that sharp, severe negative market impacts would otherwide have on the value of the fund during these events. Insync screens the universe of 40,000 listed global companies to just 150 that it views as superior. This includes profitability, balance sheet performance, shareholder focus and valuations. 20-40 companies are then chosen for the portfolio. These reflect the best outcomes from further analysis using a proprietary DCF valuation, implied growth modelling, and free cash flow yield; alongside management, competitor, and industry scrutiny. The Fund may hold some cash (maximum of 5%), derivatives, currency contracts for hedging purposes, and American and/or Global Depository Receipts. It is however, for all intents and purposes, a 'long-only' fund, remaining fully invested irrespective of market cycles. |
Manager Comments | The Insync Global Capital Aware Fund has a track record of 12 years and 7 months and has underperformed the Global Equity Index since inception in October 2009, providing investors with an annualised return of 10.33% compared with the index's return of 10.9% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has experienced a negative annual return on 2 occasions in the 12 years and 7 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -22.2% vs the index's -10.7%, and since inception in October 2009 the fund's largest drawdown was -22.2% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -13.59%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in January 2022 and has lasted 3 months, reaching its lowest point during April 2022. During this period, the index's maximum drawdown was -10.7%. The Manager has delivered these returns with 0.83% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 five times over the past five years and which currently sits at 0.75 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 81% of the time in rising markets and 22% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 59% and a down-capture ratio of 80%. |
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17 May 2022 - Performance Report: Bennelong Australian Equities Fund
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Manager Comments | The Bennelong Australian Equities Fund has a track record of 13 years and 3 months and has outperformed the ASX 200 Total Return Index since inception in February 2009, providing investors with an annualised return of 13.46% compared with the index's return of 10.37% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has only experienced a negative annual return once in the 13 years and 3 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -17.91% vs the index's -6.35%, and since inception in February 2009 the fund's largest drawdown was -24.32% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -26.75%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in February 2020 and lasted 6 months, reaching its lowest point during March 2020. The fund had completely recovered its losses by August 2020. The Manager has delivered these returns with 1.32% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 four times over the past five years and which currently sits at 0.79 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 91% of the time in rising markets and 18% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 129% and a down-capture ratio of 97%. |
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17 May 2022 - What have rubber bands got to do with successful stock selection?
What have rubber bands got to do with successful stock selection? Insync Fund Managers April 2022 Lifting of pandemic restrictions has generated an overly enthusiastic view that economically sensitive companies will rebound quickly across many business sectors. Insync deliberately has no exposure to stocks of this ilk. We favour companies that are not only are some of the most profitable companies in the world but are also expected to consistently grow their earnings at high rates regardless of how the global economy performs. As the earnings growth across our portfolio continues to compound at high-rates, the gap grows ever wider between their stock price and their valuations (currently circa 50%+ below valuations). In these shorter periods of relative underperformance, a tension permeates in markets. This creates ideal conditions for entry as a sudden 'snap-back' in stock prices can occur very quickly. Snap backs are triggered by a change in market conditions, an event or simply the market recognizing the big disparities between the companies promising to deliver to the ones actually delivering. We liken it to an elastic band. The more you stretch it (the widening of the gap between valuation and share price), the greater the likelihood of a rapid 'snap-back'. Whilst it's impossible to time exactly when the snap back will occur, when it does do so, it delivers strong outperformance to those stocks with the real underlying earnings and profits to support a sustainable uptick in their price. At the same time, the reverse occurs for those presently leading this latest bout of exuberant price growth. We like value but we are not value Investors. We recently had an extensive meeting with a fund researcher where we took him through our valuation approach. One of his key conclusions was that Insync is a 'value investor'. Whilst we would not describe ourselves as value investors based on conventional metrics (just buying companies based on low Price/Earnings ratios), an important part of Insync's process includes building a high degree of confidence in understanding the worth of a company's future cashflows beyond its present state. To make money involves finding companies where the value we see is significantly greater than the price we have to pay. The current investor exuberance around chasing returns in hyped up sectors has the Insync portfolio of quality growth companies trading at circa 50% below our assessed valuations. A question to ponder is this..... Would you buy into highly profitable businesses if you could buy them at such a large discount? And after doing all your investigations and crunching the numbers, its forward earnings were compounding strongly. Or would you buy a very richly valued popular business whose forward looking numbers don't support its price but everyone was enthusiastic about it today? This is the choice that investors face and this sets up perfect conditions for the Insync portfolio to deliver strong returns. P.S. Insync is of course categorised as a 'Quality Growth' Investor. Traditional valuation metrics are losing their predictive power. PE (Price/Earnings) and PB (Price/Book) ratios have been declining in their ability to predict value. The main reason is in the "E" part of the P/E ratio. Our modern global economy is increasingly driven by intangible assets. Items such as intellectual property, R&D, brands, and networks. In the last decade or so this has accelerated to dominate in many key industries. In the past capital equipment and other tangible assets used to figure large on balance sheets. 'Intangibles' now represent 84% of the market value of the S&P 500 as depicted above. The old focus supported the old P/E and P/B ratios suitability. The problem occurs when it is applied to this new world - to the industries and companies that invest heavily in intangibles. It creates a misleading and distorted picture. By example, when Pfizer invests R&D in a new drug for Covid-19 (forecasted to generate sales of US$45.7 Bn this year), or Amazon spending on building their cloud capability (sales of US$60 Bn expected from this division), these investments are classified as intangibles. They have to be expensed through their income statements. This means it significantly depresses their earnings today despite these 'investments of expenditure' creating significant sales and profits for many years to follow. Their resulting P/E and P/B ratios are thus negatively impacted. This is important to remember when investing for the future. Beware of using the rear-view mirror. Life has changed. Fastest decline in history. By way of contrast, old-industry companies, say a steel company, has to invest heavily in property and machinery (tangibles). The accounting rules treat these investments as capital expenditures. It immediately goes onto the balance sheet and does not detract from that year's earnings unlike intangibles. Effectively this inflates its present earnings and the book value. P/E and P/B ratios look good. This inconsistent treatment of the drivers of future growth between intangibles and tangibles leads to wrong conclusions on what actually represents good value and what does not. P/Es are thus not a useful indictor for industries with high intangibles, and even more misleading if taking an average across a broad index. Conventional portfolio blending methods. Many research houses lump funds managers into simplified groupings primarily based on P/E ratios. Growth managers tend to be holding businesses with higher than market average P/E or P/B ratios. Value managers holding a portfolio of low P/E ratios, and GARP or Core managers somewhere in-between. Not only is this old measure being over-used to compare managers in the same group, it is further adapted as the primary means of blending managers across entire client portfolios and investment models. People tend towards simplicity even if its misleading. Given the change in intangible expenditures this is an increasingly unwise approach for professional advice givers. It is also worth noting that P/B and P/E ratios represent two of the three variables used to determine stock inclusion in the widely followed style index, MSCI World Value. The key driver of future earnings - intangibles, is not being appropriately reflected in the income statements and balance sheets in a rapidly changing economy. Accounting rules have not yet adapted. This, we strongly contend, is a key reason for the long-term underperformance of Value indices post the Global Financial Crisis. Intangibles- a key to investing in today's world Even though it is impossible to measure the value of intangibles precisely, it is essential for investment professionals to come up with a logical approach to incorporate intangibles into their decision making; otherwise, they risk being relics in this new age of information. At Insync we have developed a systematic way of incorporating the cashflows that intangibles are delivering into our valuation methodology. This results in a more accurate assessment of the value of a business and a key reason of our successful stock selections. Funds operated by this manager: Insync Global Capital Aware Fund, Insync Global Quality Equity Fund Disclaimer |
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16 May 2022 - Performance Report: Cyan C3G Fund
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Fund Overview | Cyan C3G Fund is based on the investment philosophy which can be defined as a comprehensive, clear and considered process focused on delivering growth. These are identified through stringent filter criteria and a rigorous research process. The Manager uses a proprietary stock filter in order to eliminate a large proportion of investments due to both internal characteristics (such as gearing levels or cash flow) and external characteristics (such as exposure to commodity prices or customer concentration). Typically, the Fund looks for businesses that are one or more of: a) under researched, b) fundamentally undervalued, c) have a catalyst for re-rating. The Manager seeks to achieve this investment outcome by actively managing a portfolio of Australian listed securities. When the opportunity to invest in suitable securities cannot be found, the manager may reduce the level of equities exposure and accumulate a defensive cash position. Whilst it is the company's intention, there is no guarantee that any distributions or returns will be declared, or that if declared, the amount of any returns will remain constant or increase over time. The Fund does not invest in derivatives and does not use debt to leverage the Fund's performance. However, companies in which the Fund invests may be leveraged. |
Manager Comments | The Cyan C3G Fund has a track record of 7 years and 9 months and has outperformed the ASX Small Ordinaries Total Return Index since inception in August 2014, providing investors with an annualised return of 11.51% compared with the index's return of 8.31% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has only experienced a negative annual return once in the 7 years and 9 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -21.46% vs the index's -9.15%, and since inception in August 2014 the fund's largest drawdown was -36.45% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -29.12%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in October 2019 and lasted 1 year and 4 months, reaching its lowest point during March 2020. The fund had completely recovered its losses by February 2021. The Manager has delivered these returns with 0.24% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 five times over the past five years and which currently sits at 0.67 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 86% of the time in rising markets and 38% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 64% and a down-capture ratio of 66%. |
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16 May 2022 - Performance Report: L1 Capital Long Short Fund (Monthly Class)
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Manager Comments | The L1 Capital Long Short Fund (Monthly Class) has a track record of 7 years and 8 months and has outperformed the ASX 200 Total Return Index since inception in September 2014, providing investors with an annualised return of 23.8% compared with the index's return of 8.02% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has only experienced a negative annual return once in the 7 years and 8 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -7.21% vs the index's -6.35%, and since inception in September 2014 the fund's largest drawdown was -39.11% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -26.75%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in February 2018 and lasted 2 years and 9 months, reaching its lowest point during March 2020. The fund had completely recovered its losses by November 2020. The Manager has delivered these returns with 6.44% more volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 two times over the past five years and which currently sits at 1.09 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 79% of the time in rising markets and 65% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 93% and a down-capture ratio of -2%. |
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16 May 2022 - Performance Report: Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund
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Fund Overview | In a typical environment the Fund will hold around 70 stocks comprising 35 pairs. Each pair contains one long and one short position each of which will have been thoroughly researched and are selected from the same market sector. Whilst in an ideal environment each stock's position will make a positive return, it is the relative performance of the pair that is important. As a result the Fund can make positive returns when each stock moves in the same direction provided the long position outperforms the short one in relative terms. However, if neither side of the trade is profitable, strict controls are required to ensure losses are limited. The Fund uses no derivatives and has no currency exposure. The Fund has no hard stop loss limits, instead relying on the small average position size per stock (1.5%) and per pair (3%) to limit exposure. Where practical pairs are always held within the same sector to limit cross sector risk, and positions can be held for months or years. The Bennelong Market Neutral Fund, with same strategy and liquidity is available for retail investors as a Listed Investment Company (LIC) on the ASX. |
Manager Comments | The Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund has a track record of 20 years and 3 months and has outperformed the ASX 200 Total Return Index since inception in February 2002, providing investors with an annualised return of 12.9% compared with the index's return of 8.35% over the same period. On a calendar year basis, the fund has experienced a negative annual return on 3 occasions in the 20 years and 3 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -21.67% vs the index's -6.35%, and since inception in February 2002 the fund's largest drawdown was -29.05% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -47.19%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in September 2020 and has lasted 1 year and 7 months, reaching its lowest point during April 2022. During this period, the index's maximum drawdown was -15.05%. The Manager has delivered these returns with 0.15% less volatility than the index, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has fallen below 1 five times over the past five years and which currently sits at 0.75 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 64% of the time in rising markets and 61% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 5% and a down-capture ratio of -127%. |
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