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29 Jun 2015 - KIS Asia Long Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date25 June 2015
ManagerKIS Capital Partners
Fund NameKIS Asia Long Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateMay 2015
Latest Return1.14%
Latest 6 Months7.95%
Latest 12 Months9.42%
Latest 24 Months21.71%
Annualised Since Inception15.47%
Inception Date01 October 2009
FUM (millions)AU$36
Fund OverviewThe Fund's investment objective is to generate absolute returns, in Australian dollars, 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 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 excluding Japan, but including 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 rose 1.14% during May, to bring the Fund's annual return since inception to 15.47% p.a. In comparison, the AFM Asia Pacific ex-Japan Benchmark annual return has been 5.60% p.a. The Fund achieved these returns with lower volatility of 5.48% (Index 9.25%), to give strong Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 2.05 (Index 0.26) and 4.85 (Index 0.31) over the same time frame.

Majority of the month's return came from the Long Short Strategy, contributing 119bp. On a geographic basis, HK & China and Australia were the strongest contributors generating 107bp and 70bp respectively. The Fund had positive returns across all market caps: large-cap 33bp, mid-cap 39bp and small-cap 62bp. The Fund lost 15bp using indices to hedge the long biases of +5% of AUM in mid-caps and +21% of AUM in small-caps. Across all market cap segments including index, the Fund's average net bias over the month was +4% of AUM.

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