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25 Mar 2014 - KIS Asia Long Short Fund

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Report Date24 March 2014
ManagerKIS Capital Partners
Fund NameKIS Asia Long Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateFebruary 2014
Latest Return1.76%
Latest 6 Months7.52%
Latest 12 Months15.99%
Latest 24 Months24.25%
Annualised Since Inception17.81%
Inception Date01 October 2009
FUM (millions)AU$33
Fund OverviewA significant portion of the KIS Asia Long Short Fund is managed through the construction of a basket of long and short positions in liquid and transparent Australian and Asian stocks. The KIS managers rely on a combination of fundamental analysis, real-time technical analysis, and a focus on identifying catalysts and events which will result in price movements in the underlying shares. The long/short portfolio has an active trading style and takes a short-term approach to the markets.

Variables such as earnings surprise; stock price versus fundamental valuation; dividend policy; management composition, are used in addition to other fundamental and technical indicators to build a factual and analytical foundation to the composition of the long/short portfolio.

KIS uses a discretionary approach in their investment strategy and they do not rely on large amounts of leverage. The investments are predominantly in liquid, transparent markets.
Manager CommentsKIS Asia Long Short Fund returned 1.76% during February and 15.99% (10.56% Index) for the previous twelve months with a volatility of 2.71% as compared to 11.49% for the ASX 200 Acc Index.

The Fund has notable risk statistics with a twelve month Sharpe ratio of 4.55 (0.71), Sortino ratio of 46.28 (1.08) and maximum drawdown of -0.06% (-6.72% Index). Up and Down Capture ratios are 0.31 and -0.55 respectively.

The Manager strategy comments are 'Long Short - This portfolio contributed 111bp. The largest contributor to the P&L this month was Stockland which contributed 23bp of the returns. In February 54% of our long and short ideas, i.e. excluding hedges, were winning. In addition to this, the average profit we made on a winning idea was 1.5 times the size of our average loss. Special Situations - This portfolio contributed 72bp this month.'
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