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8 Apr 2015 - Signature Quantitative Fund

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Report Date07 April 2015
ManagerQuant Investment Management Services Pty Ltd
Fund NameSignature Quantitative Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateFebruary 2015
Latest Return-1.30%
Latest 6 Months0.53%
Latest 12 Months12.06%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception14.98%
Inception Date01 January 2014
FUM (millions)AU$22
Fund OverviewSQF is a systematic event-driven fund that exploits short-term structural market inefficiencies that are uncorrelated & persistent over time. The fund believes that the market reaction to events is not random; rather there are statistically measureable and predictable behaviour patterns that can be exploited with a systematic and disciplined approach. The fund's investment philosophy is to quantitatively identify research and exploit these event driven or behavioural structural market inefficiencies to generate significant alpha. SQF systematically utilises stock short positions and futures to reduce risk and generate significant alpha

SQF has been established to profit from anomalies surrounding event driven, behavioural & factor based structural market inefficiencies which generate significant profits and are uncorrelated & persistent over time. Specific strategies such as dividend arbitrage, index addition and deletion, tax year end, capital raisings, among other strategies are used by the Fund. The Fund's initial focus is on investing in Australian and New Zealand markets.
Manager CommentsSignature Quantitative Fund returned -1.30% bringing the Fund's annual performance since inception to 14.98%. In comparison the Fund's Index, ASX200 Accumulation returned annually 14.06%. The Fund's annualised volatility was 8.53% as compared to the Index at 11.80%. The Fund's strong performance has been achieved with lower volatility, bringing the Fund's Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio to 1.40 (Index 0.97) and 3.58 (Index 1.55) respectively.

In February, the Alpha Capture and Capital Raising Strategies were positive contributors to the Fund's return. The Index Re-balance Strategy contributed negatively mainly due to the following stocks; Pacific Rubiales Energy (-92bps), Penn West Petroleum (-81bps) and Denbury Resources (-39bps). The Dividend Arbitrage Strategy also under-performed in February, where the long positions outperformed the market, but the short positions out-performed the long positions.

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