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24 Feb 2014 - Pengana Australian Equities Fund

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Report Date21 February 2014
ManagerPengana Capital
Fund NamePengana Australian Equities Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateJanuary 2014
Latest Return-2.00%
Latest 6 Months4.03%
Latest 12 Months10.45%
Latest 24 Months39.91%
Annualised Since Inception12.65%
Inception Date01 July 2008
FUM (millions)AU$370
Fund OverviewThe Fund invests in listed equities and seeks to hold a concentrated core portfolio of 15-20 listed stocks in outstanding businesses to provide capital preservation in real terms, and A$ returns of 12-15% p.a. compounded over the medium term time horizon. The Fund seeks to generate consistent investment returns using fundamental research to identify companies with competent management and resilient business models. The investment methodology is designed to profit from a focus on tax aware returns (both capital and income) generated by owning outstanding businesses at reasonable prices.
Manager CommentsPengana Australian Equities Fund recorded -2.00% during January and 10.45% for the previous 12 month marginally below the ASX 200 Acc return of 10.975 but with significantly less volatility with the Fund recording 7.39% as compared to the Index at 11.63%.

The Fund's annualised return since inception in July 2008 is 12.65% with the Index return 4.47%, again with a much lower volatility of 10.19% as compared to 15.06%. The Sharpe and Sortino ratios also show strong reward-to-risk ratios at 0.84 (0.11) and 1.21 (0.04) respectively (index numbers are shown in brackets).

The largest positive contributors to the month's performance were DUET Group and Summerset NZ while the largest detractors were Mermaid Marine, ANZ Bank, Fox Group, Seven West Media and Resmed.

In terms of the portfolio the Manager comments as at 31st January 2014, cash (including notes and preference shares) represented 21% of the Fund. The top five holdings by value were: DUET Group, Telstra, ANZ Bank, Resmed and NAB and the Fund's exposure to non-Australian dollar earnings streams (inclusive of companies with global earnings profiles such as Resmed, Fox Group, CSL, NZ based companies and US dollar exposure) stood at 23%.



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