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29 Apr 2014 - Pengana Asia Special Events (Onshore) Fund

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Report Date28 April 2014
ManagerPengana Capital
Fund NamePengana Asia Special Events (Onshore) Fund
StrategyEvent Driven
Latest Return DateMarch 2014
Latest Return-1.30%
Latest 6 Months3.96%
Latest 12 Months9.27%
Latest 24 Months13.83%
Annualised Since Inception11.62%
Inception Date01 September 2010
FUM (millions)AU$106
Fund OverviewThe Pengana Asia Special Events (Onshore) Fund employs an event-driven investment strategy that seeks to exploit the mispricing of securities of companies involved in corporate transactions within the Asian (including Japan, Australia and New Zealand) region.

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 CommentsPengana Asia Special Events (Onshore) Fund returned -1.3% during March and 9.27% for the year with a low annualised volatility of 3.22% and Sharpe ratio of 1.98. Since inception in September 2010 the Fund has recorded 80% positive months and a very low maximum draw-down of 4.05% (ASX 200 Acc -25.80%).

The Manager comments that 'Intra month volatility presented challenging trading conditions within the holding company universe. We have observed a dislocation in discounts without a reversion in the short term. The Fund has tactically reduced gross exposure to this sub strategy to 18% until more visibility over hard catalysts can be ascertained. On the back of M&A deal closing and tactical reduction of gross exposure in the Holding company sub-strategy, the average gross was 131.8% for the month with a net long exposure of 13%.'

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