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23 Feb 2012 - Performance Report: KIS Asia Long Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date22 February 2012
ManagerKIS Capital Partners
Fund NameKIS Asia Long Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateJanuary 2012
Latest Return2.33%
Latest 6 Months10.42%
Latest 12 Months13.69%
Latest 24 Months41.75%
Annualised Since Inception22.74%
Inception Date01 October 2009
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewThe KIS Asia Long Short Fund (formerly KIS Global Multi Strategy Fund) investment ideology is summarised into three distinct principals:

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 CommentsKIS Capital's Asian Long Short Fund rose 2.33% for the month as markets seemed happy to put the trials and tribulations of 2011 behind them, at least in the near term. However the manager cautioned that in their opinion loose monetary policy by authorities in a range of jurisdictions was behind the rally in risk assets, and that real progress will only be made when growth is driven by economic activity rather than pump priming.

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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