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28 May 2014 - KIS Asia Long Short Fund

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Report Date27 May 2014
ManagerKIS Capital Partners
Fund NameKIS Asia Long Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateApril 2014
Latest Return-0.77%
Latest 6 Months4.68%
Latest 12 Months14.33%
Latest 24 Months25.13%
Annualised Since Inception17.09%
Inception Date01 October 2009
FUM (millions)AU$34
Fund OverviewThe Fund's investment objective is to generate absolute returns, in the Fund's Reporting Currency, of around 15% p.a. after all fees without noticeable correlation to any particular asset class or market.

Whilst the Fund's primary strategy is focused on long/short equities, the ability to retain discretionary powers to allocate funds across a number of other investment strategies is reserved. These strategies may include, but not be limited to: convertible bond investments, portfolio hedging, equity related arbitrage, special situations (e.g. merger arbitrage, rights offerings, participation in international public offerings and placements, etc.).

The Fund's geographic focus is Asia (ex Japan incl. Australia). The Fund may invest outside of this region to the extent that:
1. The investment decision is driven from the Asian region or,
2. The exposure is intended to mitigate risk or enhance return from factors external to the Asian region.
Manager CommentsKIS Asia Long Short Fund returned -0.77% during April and 14.33% for the preceding 12 months with a very low volatility of 3.3% and a Sharpe ratio of 3.35.

The Manager reported that: Within the Long Short portfolio no other single underlying position created an impact of more than 20bp this month. In March only 44% of our long and short ideas, i.e. excluding hedges, were winning. Unfortunately this month our success ratio was evenly balanced, rather than being biased to winning trades, with the average sized loss on a failed trade idea being very close to the profit on a winning trade idea.

Within the portfolio's Hedge and Convertible Bonds exposure, there was no significant impact on returns for the month.
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