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15 Mar 2012 - Performance Report: KIS Asia Long Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date14 March 2012
ManagerKIS Capital Partners
Fund NameKIS Asia Long Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateFebruary 2012
Latest Return2.89%
Latest 6 Months9.37%
Latest 12 Months16.04%
Latest 24 Months42.35%
Annualised Since Inception23.32%
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 CommentsThe KIS Asian Long Short Fund returned 2.89% in February, with 2.38% coming from the long short portfolio, 0.32% from Special Situations, and 0.18% from a combination of Portfolio Hedge, Convertible Bond and Equity Arbitrage positions.

KIS remain wary of the downside risks caused by the ongoing repercussions from the Greek debt restructuring as well as potential for further tensions between Israel and Iran. However, in the absence of these the manager expects equity markets to continue to perform, although probably not as strongly as in the first two months of the year.

In this environment KIS believe that as the macro issues subside, stock-picking will be rewarded which will benefit the Fund's investment process, although they will reduce risk again if this does not eventuate.
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