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Performance Report: Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Fund
29 Feb 2012 - Australian Fund Monitors
The Aurora Fortitude Long/Short, M&A, Convergence and Yield strategies all contributed in January, while reduced volatility saw the Option overlay book struggle
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29 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Manager Comments | With the exception of the Options overlay book which suffered with volatility reducing as the market rose, all four strategies posted gains to varying degrees,contributing to the month's positive performance. Looking forward the Manager anticipates that the February reporting season should present several opportunities as stock specific factors override the macro environment. |
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Performance Report: Supervised High Yield Fund
28 Feb 2012 - Australian Fund Monitors
Supervised's High Yield Fund provides strong returns in January as the market re-rated the Australian Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) sector
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28 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: Supervised High Yield Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Fund Overview | The fund will invest in all forms of marketable floating and fixed income debt securities, such as asset backed debt securities, residential mortgage backed securities, corporate debt, regional and sovereign debt securities, debt/equity hybrid securities, equities and currencies. All these investments will be either listed or traded in a market where prices can be independently verified. The fund may also invest in interest rate swaps, options over authorised investments and exchange traded futures contracts. All these will be either listed or traded in a market where they can be independently valued. |
| Manager Comments | Supervised anticipates that over the next six months Australian banks will be coming to the market with large borrowing requirements which should underpin credit margins at current levels and create opportunities for ongoing good returns in A$ credit markets. |
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Performance Report: KIS Asia Long Short Fund
23 Feb 2012 - Australian Fund Monitors
KIS Asia returns 2.33% in January 2012 with the Long Short portfolio responsible for all the returns as investors put 2011 behind them.
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23 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: KIS Asia Long Short Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Fund Overview | 1. Markets change and evolve, constantly stressing quantitative models. They believe their discretionary approach to portfolio management is the most appropriate manner to manage their wealth and their client's wealth. 2. Their platform and mandate allows them to achieve the scale, access and diversification needed to deliver high quality risk adjusted returns. 3. They believe, \'To achieve superior investment results, your insight into value has to be superior. Thus you must learn things others don't, see things differently or do a better job of analysing them -ideally, all three.\' Howard Marks, Founder, Oaktree Capital Management (Oaktree Capital Management is a global investment management corporation with USD82b of assets under management). |
| Manager Comments | The Long/Short portfolio was responsible for all the month's return with both long (Azimuth Resources, Sims Metal and ABM Resources) and short (Atlas Iron) positions contributing. Portfolio Hedge, Convertible Bond and Equity Arbitrage portfolios did not make a significant contribution, while special situations were mixed to contribute a total of +0.17%. |
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Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
15 Feb 2012 - Australian Fund Monitors
Optimal Australia return +1.51% in January, but remain cautious as equity markets remain dysfunctional
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15 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Fund Overview | The Fund's bias is likely to be net long under normal market conditions, with the core strategy being to construct a portfolio of listed equity securities priced at levels that do not adequately reflect their underlying value. The Fund will seek to boost returns and limit potential market downside by selective short selling of individual stocks which are priced at levels that are viewed as materially above their underlying value. The Fund will also use certain trading strategies both within its core portfolio (through rebalancing stock weights and overall market exposure in response to price movements) and in certain other situations (typically of a shorter-duration and/or opportunistic nature) with the objective of further increasing returns. |
| Manager Comments | Optimal continue to describe the market as dysfunctional, with sharp rallies on thin volumes meaning investors must either prepare for the bounce, or struggle to chase it. In spite of the unpredictability of markets since inception in September 2008, the fund has only suffered 3 negative months. |
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Performance Report: Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund
15 Feb 2012 - Australian Fund Monitors
Bennelong's Kardinia Long Short fund progressively increases gross exposure with a number of cyclical and resource positions as risk appetite returns
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15 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund
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| Fund Overview | As a result management of the Fund was transferred to Kardinia Capital, a new boutique fund manager 65% owned by Burgess and Rehder, with the balance owned by Bennelong Funds Management. The Fund's investment strategy and prior track record will remain intact. The Kardinia Absolute Return Fund is an Australian domiciled equity long/short fund investing in ASX listed securities. The Fund uses some exchange traded call options and there is limited use of SPI futures contracts to hedge overall market risk. The Fund consists of a concentrated long/short portfolio typically comprising 30 to 40 ASX300 listed stocks, generally with a long bias aligned to the overall market direction. There is a slight bias to large cap stocks in the long side of the portfolio, although in a rising market the portfolio will tend to hold smaller caps, including resource stocks, more frequently. |
| Manager Comments | The fund's net equity market exposure was progressively increased to 42.5% (47.2% long and 4.7% short) with the addition of a number of cyclical and resources positions. |
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Performance Report: Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Fund
16 Dec 2011 - Australian Fund Monitors
Gains in the long/short, options, yield and M&A deliver positive return for Aurora Fortitude in November
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16 Dec 2011 - Performance Report: Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Manager Comments | The Long/Short strategy (+0.23%) provided the best returns for Aurora in November, with the Options portfolio also adding +0.19% from large stock specific moves. The Yield and M&A books also posted positive returns of +0.15% and +0.12% respectively, with Convergence the only small detractor from performance (-0.05%)) as a result of a contraction in the spread between Wesfarmers Partially Protected and the fully paid shares. |
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Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
15 Dec 2011 - Australian Fund Monitors
Optimal Australia overcomes dysfunctional markets as government and central bank interference in November fails to prevent another positive month.
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15 Dec 2011 - Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Fund Overview | The Fund's bias is likely to be net long under normal market conditions, with the core strategy being to construct a portfolio of listed equity securities priced at levels that do not adequately reflect their underlying value. The Fund will seek to boost returns and limit potential market downside by selective short selling of individual stocks which are priced at levels that are viewed as materially above their underlying value. The Fund will also use certain trading strategies both within its core portfolio (through rebalancing stock weights and overall market exposure in response to price movements) and in certain other situations (typically of a shorter-duration and/or opportunistic nature) with the objective of further increasing returns. |
| Manager Comments | Optimal feels that the Eurozone crisis is far from over and that austerity will overhang growth in both Europe and the USA for some time to come. Accordingly risk settings will remain conservative in spite of the possibility of market rallies being sudden and violent. |
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Performance Report: Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund
15 Dec 2011 - Australian Fund Monitors
Bennelong returns to a more familiar positive position as the market continued its roller coaster and short positions carried the day
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15 Dec 2011 - Performance Report: Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Manager Comments | The manager feels markets are currently representing reasonable value as macro related concerns are depressing prices and investors remain negative, and expects 2012 will see a continuation of cautious equity markets and subdued growth. |
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Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
13 Jul 2011 - Australian Fund Monitors
Optimal Australia falls -1.38% in June, only the second monthly loss since the Fund's inception in September 2008
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13 Jul 2011 - Performance Report: Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Fund Overview | The Fund's bias is likely to be net long under normal market conditions, with the core strategy being to construct a portfolio of listed equity securities priced at levels that do not adequately reflect their underlying value. The Fund will seek to boost returns and limit potential market downside by selective short selling of individual stocks which are priced at levels that are viewed as materially above their underlying value. The Fund will also use certain trading strategies both within its core portfolio (through rebalancing stock weights and overall market exposure in response to price movements) and in certain other situations (typically of a shorter-duration and/or opportunistic nature) with the objective of further increasing returns. |
| Manager Comments | Optimal remains cautious in spite of feeling that equity markets have factored in much of the bad news, reinforcing their view that equity investment is very difficult at this point. |
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Performance Report: Bennelong Securities Long Short Equity Fund
12 Jul 2011 - Australian Fund Monitors
Bennelong continues to defy difficult markets with another positive month, driven by the short portfolio
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12 Jul 2011 - Performance Report: Bennelong Securities Long Short Equity Fund
By: Australian Fund Monitors
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| Manager Comments | 60% of the Fund's pairs produced a positive return, with performance skewed to the short portfolio which produced 150% of the net return as analysts downgraded earnings on a number of the portfolio's short positions. |
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