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13 Oct 2010 - Performance Report: Mathews Velocity Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date12 October 2010
ManagerMathews Capital Partners
Fund NameMathews Velocity Fund
StrategyGlobal Macro
Latest Return DateSeptember 2010
Latest Return10.76%
Latest 6 Months20.77%
Latest 12 Months17.34%
Latest 24 Months99.60%
Annualised Since Inception43.99%
Inception Date01 July 2006
FUM (millions)AU$48
Fund OverviewThe Fund is a general long/short equity fund principally investing in listed securities in Australia and internationally. The Fund may also invest in unlisted securities which are expected to list within six months of purchase. The Fund is not a market neutral fund and accordingly may switch between net long positions and net short positions. The Fund has the provision for short sales and the use of derivatives as determined by the Manager.

The Manager does not target a specific investment style. The Manager's investment strategy is based on attempting to pick emerging trends in the equity and commodity markets.
Manager CommentsMathews Capital's Velocity Fund outperformed it's ASX benchmark in spite of net exposure of less than 100%, with the manager reporting that September performance was (like August) broadly based with 68% of positions either flat or positive.

The fund's positions in gold yielded significant gains on the back of the 4.7% increase in the gold price, which has also resulted in some repositioning of gold positions.

Unsurprisingly given the strong market performance, the fund's shorts were the biggest drag on performance with the VIX index futures down 27%, a short position in BHP (-4.8%), and S&P 500 futures (-1.4%).

At month end the fund had gross exposure of 130%, net exposure of 74% and ended September hundred 102% long and 28% short. A combination of performance and inflows also saw the fund's October FUM increasing to $56 million.
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