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| Fund Overview | Kapstream draws on information from many sources such as economic roundtables, investment banks, brokers, rating agencies and central banks. Kapstream employs a rigorous evaluation process for individual trades, first confirming that a prospective trade meets Kapstream's global macroeconomic view, then taking account of various decision variables such as duration, yield curve and volatility which must support the research and analysis. |
| Manager Comments | The manager attributes the good returns to a credit spread rally and a conservative interest-rate position in the portfolio. Other strategy themes include a preference for; floating rate assets to fixed-rate assets on the assumption that monetary policy will tighten at some point, corporate bonds to sovereign bonds and a preference for Asian names and larger allocations to the region. Of interest is that the Fund also favors the debt of Australian/Asian and US financials. In Australia, the fund holds the debt of the big 4 banks including senior debt and lower Tier 1 and Tier 2 paper. The fund has also taken short positions on the 10 year bonds rates of Australia, Korea and Japan via options. The Manager has a reasonably positive view on the US but remains concerned with respect to the outlook for Europe and, to a lesser degree, Australia. |
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