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13 May 2013 - Monash Absolute Investment Fund

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Report Date12 May 2013
ManagerMonash Investors
Fund NameMonash Absolute Investment Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateApril 2013
Latest Return1.13%
Latest 6 Months16.40%
Latest 12 Months
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception22.73%
Inception Date12 May 2013
FUM (millions)AU$23.8
Fund OverviewThe Monash Absolute Investment Fund is a global equity long/short fund, with a home bias to investing in Australia. The Fund aims to find investments providing positive returns irrespective of market conditions. The Fund seeks compelling equity opportunities long or short that allows it to reliably grow wealth.

The Fund places a high priority on capital preservation, and have an absolute return focus in accepting market risk. The Manager employs a comprehensive approach to making investment decisions utilising value, growth and discounted cash flow styles.

The portfolio is somewhat concentrated and the manager looks to diversify the portfolio across industries and themes rather than staying near an index. The portfolio may at times have a large amount of cash or other protection.
Manager CommentsThe Monash Absolute Investment Fund returned 1.13% for April 2013 in a month of extreme moves on the ASX with the small cap resources falling 19% and the top 100 industrials rising 4.7%.

The manager has commented on the following investments;

G8 Education (GEM) continued to climb. This month it was up another +16.3%. GEM owns and operates 167 childcare centres in Australia and has interests in another 69 centres in Singapore.

Exiting the Flight Centre / Wotif pairs trade (FLT/WTF). Despite a rising market for industrial cyclicals the Fund managed to make money from shorting Wotif, which dropped -2.7% while invested and also made money from owning Flight Centre which rose and made +4.6% over the same period.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering (SXE) was down -15.9%, getting caught in the fall with all mining services companies and resource companies generally.

At the end of the month the portfolio had nine Outlook Driven stocks, seven Event Driven stocks and one Pairs Trades. Gross exposure was 69% and net exposure was 67%.
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