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24 Feb 2021 - Performance Report: Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund
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Fund Overview | The Fund's discretionary investment strategy commences with a macro view of the economy and direction to establish the portfolio's desired market exposure. Following this detailed sector and company research is gathered from knowledge of the individual stocks in the Fund's universe, with widespread use of broker research. Company visits, presentations and discussions with management at CEO and CFO level are used wherever possible to assess management quality across a range of criteria. Detailed analysis of company valuations using financial statements and forecasts, particularly focusing on free cash flow, is conducted. Technical analysis is used to validate the Manager's fundamental research and valuations and to manage market timing. A significant portion of the Fund's overall performance can be attributed to the attention and importance given to the macro economic outlook and the ability and willingness to adjust the Fund's market risk. |
Manager Comments | The Fund's capacity to protect investors' capital in falling and volatile markets is highlighted by the following statistics (since inception): Sortino ratio of 1.25 vs the Index's 0.25, worst month of -5.88% vs the Index's -20.65%, maximum drawdown of -11.71% vs the Index's -47.19% and down-capture ratio of 48.66%. Positive contributors in January included Pointsbet, Harvest Technology, Z1P Group, Aussie Broadband and BHP. Detractors included Polynovo, Xero, Charter Hall, Fortescue, Perseus. Kardinia reduced the Fund's net market exposure from 74.0% to 58.7% (85.7% long and 27.0% short) with a new short position in Share Price Index Futures offsetting increased weightings in NAB, Charter Hall, Fortescue Metals and Flight Centre. Kardinia maintain a bias towards stocks that benefit from a re-opening of economies scenario, with Technology, Resources and Banks the largest sector weights. |
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23 Feb 2021 - Performance Report: Frazis Fund
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Fund Overview | The manager follows a disciplined, process-driven, and thematic strategy focused on five core investment strategies: 1) Growth stocks that are really value stocks; 2) Traditional deep value; 3) The life sciences; 4) Miners and drillers expanding production into supply deficits; 5) Global special situations; The manager uses a macro overlay to manage exposure, hedging in three ways: 1) Direct shorts 2) Upside exposure to the VIX index 3) Index optionality |
Manager Comments | Frazis noted January's performance was broad-based. The Fund ended the month with 50 positions. Frazis continue to spot new opportunities, with many of the portfolio's best performers of late being positions made in recent weeks and months. Frazis discuss some of these companies in their latest report. Frazis believe there is a strong level of optimism in financial markets which they say is somewhat justified as $1.9 trillion of US Government spending is about to wash through markets while interest rates are unlikely to increase any time soon. |
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23 Feb 2021 - Performance Report: Quay Global Real Estate Fund
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Fund Overview | The Fund will invest in a number of global listed real estate companies, groups or funds. The investment strategy is to make investments in real estate securities at a price that will deliver a real, after inflation, total return of 5% per annum (before costs and fees), inclusive of distributions over a longer-term period. The Investment Strategy is indifferent to the constraints of any index benchmarks and is relatively concentrated in its number of investments. The Fund is expected to own between 20 and 40 securities, and from time to time up to 20% of the portfolio maybe invested in cash. The Fund is $A un-hedged. |
Manager Comments | Positive contributors during the month included Safestore (European Storage), Coresite (US Data), and Mid America Apartments (US apartments). Safestore posted strong operating metrics during the month, supporting Quay's long-term secular European storage demand thesis. The Fund's retail exposure also contributed significantly. The Fund's exposure to German residential, triple net leasing and US healthcare detracted in January. Quay noted that as reporting season approaches, early indications suggest the leakage of occupancy across the Fund's senior housing exposure is accelerating during the US winter. They believe this will continue to add pressure to short-term earnings, however, Quay noted they have strong conviction in the positive long-term demographic tailwinds for the sector. During the month, Quay exited their position in Camden Property Trust (US Apartments). They initiated their position in April 2020 and exited with a +56% total return. Quay used the proceeds to increase their exposure to existing investees, in particular US single-family housing. |
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23 Feb 2021 - Fund Review: Bennelong Twenty20 Australian Equities Fund January 2021
BENNELONG TWENTY20 AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES FUND
Attached is our most recently updated Fund Review on the Bennelong Twenty20 Australian Equities Fund.
- The Bennelong Twenty20 Australian Equities Fund invests in ASX listed stocks, combining an indexed position in the Top 20 stocks with an actively managed portfolio of stocks outside the Top 20. Construction of the ex-top 20 portfolio is fundamental, bottom-up, core investment style, biased to quality stocks, with a structured risk management approach.
- Mark East, the Fund's Chief Investment Officer, and Keith Kwang, Director of Quantitative Research have over 50 years combined market experience. Bennelong Funds Management (BFM) provides the investment manager, Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) with infrastructure, operational, compliance and distribution services.
For further details on the Fund, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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22 Feb 2021 - Manager Insights | Magellan Asset Management
Damen Purcell, COO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Chris Wheldon, Portfolio Manager at Magellan Asset Management The Magellan High Conviction Fund follows an unconstrained, highly concentrated long only strategy investing in global large cap stocks...with the fund investing in just 8-12 of Magellans best ideas. The fund also has the ability to take a cash exposure of up to 50%. Listen to this interview as a podcast |
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22 Feb 2021 - Performance Report: Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund
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Fund Overview | 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 Comments | As at the end of January, the portfolio's weightings had been increased in the Discretionary, IT, Communication and Industrials sectors, and decreased in the Health Care, Consumer Staples, REIT's, Materials and Financials sectors. Relative to the ASX300 Index, the portfolio was significantly overweight the Discretionary sector (Fund weight: 42.4%, benchmark weight: 8.0%) and underweight the Financials sector (Fund weight: 6.9%, benchmark weight: 27.6%). |
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22 Feb 2021 - Cash rates locked, but dividends unshackled
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22 Feb 2021 - 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 Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios (since inceptino), 0.92 and 1.28 respectively, by comparison with Index's Sharpe of 0.43 and Sortino of 0.47, highlight its capacity to produce superior risk-adjusted returns while avoiding the market's down-side volatility. The Fund's up-capture and down-capture ratios (since inception), 104.1% and 58.2% respectively, indicate that, on average ,the Fund has outperformed in both the market's positive and negative months. Two stocks succumbed to double digit percentage falls during the month: Readcloud (-15%) and Playside Studios (-17%). However, this was offset by strong results from Raiz and Alcidion. Cyan's view is that, while it can feel challenging to invest through periods of acute volatility, this volatility provides a number of opportunities which likely wouldn't be available in quieter market periods. They noted that, not only has the corporate window opened wide in January but Cyan's key holdings continue to post promising numbers and outlooks. There are more than three IPOs in Cyan's sights along with the pleasing results from their existing exposures. Cyan are confident about 2021 and noted that, at the time of writing their latest monthly report, February has seen a further positive momentum in the Fund's unit price. |
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19 Feb 2021 - Manager Insights | Frazis Capital Partners
Australian Fund Monitors' CEO, Chris Gosselin, speaks with Michael Frazis from Frazis Capital Partners about the Frazis Fund what drove the Fund's significant outperformance over the past 12 months. Michael also shares his thoughts on the current state of markets around the world. The Frazis Fund has risen +109.74% over the past 12 months vs AFM's Global Equity Index's +2.59%. Since inception in July 2018, the Fund has returned +35.74% p.a. vs the Index's +10.54%. Listen to this interview as a podcast |