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30 Sep 2013 - BlackRock Multi Opportunity Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date29 September 2013
ManagerBlackRock Asset Management Australia Limited
Fund NameBlackRock Multi Opportunity Fund
StrategyMulti Strategy
Latest Return DateAugust 2013
Latest Return-0.28%
Latest 6 Months2.86%
Latest 12 Months6.24%
Latest 24 Months21.66%
Annualised Since Inception8.75%
Inception Date30 July 2004
FUM (millions)AU$655.28
Fund OverviewThe BlackRock Multi Opportunity Fund (the Fund) is a multi-strategy fund that seeks to benefit from BlackRock's ability to systematically exploit inefficiencies across a broad range of global investment markets. The Fund harnesses BlackRock's best research ideas that are based on sound economic principles which are implemented via a systematic investment process and combined into one investment vehicle. The Fund gains exposure to a diversified group of absolute return strategies which currently include:
- Australian and International Equity Long/Short
- Global Fixed Income Long/Short
- Global Macro
- Commodity Alpha
- Alpha Transport

The Fund's goal is to provide investors with a source of consistent, risk-controlled, absolute returns that are over time, expected to have low correlations with the returns of major asset classes. The Fund aims to achieve a return of 8% p.a. before fees, above the RBA Cash Rate Target over rolling 3 year periods. In order to achieve its expected return objective, the Fund will target a total expected risk of between 4-6% p.a. over the same rolling 3 year period.
Manager CommentsBlackRock Multi Opportunity Fund has a five year track record of 9.00% pa as compared to the ASX 200 Acc Index return of 4.63% and the RBA Cash Rate return of 3.96%. The Fund recorded this return with an annualised standard deviation of 4.44% as compared to the Index number of 15.48% pa. For the month of August the Fund returned -0.28% and the 12 month return is 6.24%.

Notable over this period was the Fund's largest drawdown of 2.61% as compared to the Index's largest drawdown of 25.8%.

The Multi Opportunity Fund underperformed in August with detractions across equity market neutral and Fixed Income Global Alpha strategies. Global Macro and Commodity strategies added value helping to offset these detractions. The fund returned -0.18% gross of fees versus the RBA cash benchmark return of 0.21%. Year to date, the Fund has returned 5.50% gross of fees.

The Australian equity selection strategy had small negative performance in August. This was attributed mainly to underweight positioning in sectors related to the resources rally, in particular Mining Services and Oil / Gas. Signal performance was led by our market signals, particularly the liquidity provision signals, and our earnings quality signals. Earnings direction insights tended to detract value, especially those based on analyst sentiment.



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