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26 Jun 2015 - Freehold Absolute Return Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date24 June 2015
ManagerFreehold Investment Management
Fund Name Freehold Absolute Return Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateMay 2015
Latest Return-1.77%
Latest 6 Months5.88%
Latest 12 Months14.31%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception17.48%
Inception Date01 July 2013
FUM (millions)AU$25
Fund OverviewThe Freehold Absolute Return Fund takes long and short positions across securities exposed to assets such as office and industrial real estate, residential development, retail shopping centres, airports, ports, toll roads, rail and utilities. The Fund Manager's belief is that a combination of solid research and an understanding of the persistent inefficiencies found in the pricing of REIT and Infrastructure securities will achieve positive risk adjusted returns.

The Fund's research use detailed analysis of the underlying assets integrated with financial analysis to determine a sustainable yield and fundamental DCF valuation for the security. Also the Fund believes in having a strong risk control framework. The Fund will also use trading strategies via rebalancing of core portfolio positions as well as taking advantage of shorter duration inefficiencies in markets caused by an imbalance in demand and supply for global REIT and Infrastructure securities.

The Fund focuses on generating absolute returns after fees of 12 to 15% pa over the medium to long term. The long-short nature of the Fund combined with Freehold's rigorous investment process ensures returns generated by the Fund are largely independent of rising or falling markets.

Freehold is focused on providing investment opportunities primarily within core, value-add, opportunistic and development sectors of direct property and across listed and unlisted real estate and infrastructure securities.
Manager CommentsFreehold Absolute Return Fund returned -1.77% in May, to bring Fund's annual return since inception to 17.48% p.a., compared to the ASX200 Accumulation Index's 15.15% p.a. The Fund has achieved this return with lower volatility of 4.07% (Index 10.36%) to give notable Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 3.42 (Index 1.19) and 9.67 (Index 2.06) respectively.

The Fund returns were negatively impacted by the mild short position as well as a mean reversion in some of the positions that performed well over April. Some positive contributors in the portfolio were Bunnings Warehouse, Aurizon Group and APN Property Group. Negative contributors were Westfield Group, SCA Property Group and Goodman Group. In May, the Fund had 10-15 stock positions with estimated gross exposure of 80% and net position of 10%.

Currently, the Fund is holding a slight short bias on the expectations of a mild correction on the back of sharply rising bond yields, generally a negative for the real estate and infrastructure sectors.

Click below to read the latest Report on the Fund's performance.
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