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8 Jul 2014 - The Paragon Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date07 July 2014
ManagerParagon Funds Management
Fund NameThe Paragon Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateJune 2014
Latest Return4.90%
Latest 6 Months10.66%
Latest 12 Months30.03%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception22.67%
Inception Date28 February 2013
FUM (millions)AU$12.6
Fund OverviewAustralian long-short equities absolute return fund, focusing on core competencies in the resource and industrial sectors. The Fund deploys a high conviction, long bias strategy, focusing on proprietary, fact based research. Capital preservation is a key objective of the Fund.

Paragon accepts that markets are not always efficient in pricing information into securities and that no one investment style works in every stage of the investment cycle. Subsequently Paragon adopts a top down thematic led approach to identify companies exhibiting sustainable or improving returns on capital driven by volume growth, pricing power and competitive advantages.

Paragon utilises both quantitative analysis to provide probability weighted high/low/base case valuations and qualitative analysis in assessing management, the business model and likely direction of returns. Paragon will allocate assets to each investment opportunity based on a risk/reward profile. Positions have defined investment parameters and risk limits, which are then monitored on an ongoing basis.
Manager CommentsIn a difficult month for the ASX The Paragon Fund returned a very sound 4.9% bringing 12 month performance to 30.0% (ASX 200 Acc Index 17.43%). The out-performance was achieved with little extra volatility (9.11% as compared to 8.56%) and a Sharpe ratio of 2.69 (Index 1.64%). The Up and Down Capture ratios were sound at 0.89 and -1.16 respectively.

The Fund was 80.9% long and 16.9% short for a net position of 64% at month-end with 24 long positions and 9 short positions.

Key drivers of the Paragon Fund performance for June included strong returns from our investment in Liquefied Natural Gas and emerging graphite company Triton Minerals.
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