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| Fund Overview | The Fund seeks to profit from trading securities which are primarily subject to corporate events or from trading-related securities which the Investment Manager believes are mispriced by the market. The Fund invests in securities that are listed on Asian stock markets and other markets where related securities may be listed and in securities which are listed on markets outside of Asia where more than 70% (by assets or earnings) of the underlying business originates from an Asian country. The Fund aims to generate consistently positive returns which have a low correlation to the Asian stock markets. The objective is to generate 10-20% pa with a standard deviation of 6-10% |
| Manager Comments | Paramount to achieving this goal was the Fund's stringent risk management overlay and the Alpha-/Event opportunities that the Fund was exploiting despite volatile market conditions. In April, a fall in commodity prices, led by the unexpected collapse of gold prices, resulted in significant volatility in the resource stocks during the month. None of the risk arbitrage spreads the Fund was involved in, were affected by the unprecedented collapse of gold prices. In May and June, volatility across all asset classes spiked and equity markets reacted negatively to digest expected tapering of quantitative easing in the US, slowing growth in China and resulting flight of capital from emerging markets. The Fund's negative performance in June can be primarily attributed to our gross exposure allocation within capital management and earnings surprises sub-strategies which have a relatively higher volatility profile during market dislocations. The Fund also observed temporary dislocation of certain M&A spreads which we expect to self-correct in the coming months as the transactions near completion. Tactically, the Fund used the market dislocation to align the portfolio towards ideas which have extremely low downside potential, while eliminating positions which have a "softer" event profile. The Fund maintained a healthy average gross exposure of 167%, which reflects the vast opportunity set across Asian Events, whilst keeping a very low net exposure (market risk) averaging 10.3%. |
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