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1 Aug 2014 - Pengana Absolute Return Asia Pacific Australian Fund

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Report Date31 July 2014
ManagerPengana Capital
Fund NamePengana Absolute Return Asia Pacific Australian Fund
StrategyEvent Driven
Latest Return DateJune 2014
Latest Return1.04%
Latest 6 Months1.93%
Latest 12 Months7.93%
Latest 24 Months19.43%
Annualised Since Inception11.23%
Inception Date01 September 2010
FUM (millions)AU$64
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 Absolute Return Asia Pacific Australian Fund returned 1.04% during June and 7.93% for the prior 12 months with a low volatility of 2.86%.

Since inception in October 2008 the Fund has out-performed the ASX 200 Accumulation Index with a return of 11.23% pa as compared to 7.49%. The Fund's volatility was below that of the Index at 6.04% (Index 14.11%) while the Sharpe and Sortino ratios are 1.21 and 3.00 respectively with the Fund recording 80% positive months.

The Fund's gross exposures by strategy (at month-end) were M&A 46%, Capital Management 23.3%, Stubs 14.3% and Index Futures 7.1%.
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