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2 Jul 2015 - Signature Quantitative Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date29 June 2015
ManagerQuant Investment Management Services Pty Ltd
Fund NameSignature Quantitative Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateMay 2015
Latest Return-1.20%
Latest 6 Months-4.60%
Latest 12 Months1.82%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception11.34%
Inception Date01 January 2014
FUM (millions)AU$24
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 -1.20% for May, to bring the annual performance since inception to 11.34%. In comparison, the ASX200 Accumulation annual return was 10.36% p.a. The Fund's annualised volatility was 8.63%, compared to the Index of 10.99%. The Fund's strong performance has been achieved with lower volatility, bringing the Fund's Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio to 1.02 (Index 0.74) and 2.18 (Index 1.15) respectively.

In May, the Alpha Capture and Capital Raisings strategies under-performed. Long positions in banks and short in resources contributed the most to the under-performance in Alpha Capture. The Dividend Arbitrage Strategy under-performed slightly also due to banks exposure around bank ex-dates. The Tax Year End Effect got off to a slow start in May, however the Fund expects this to bounce back in June when the strongest returns usually occur. The Index Rebalance Strategy slightly outperformed on relatively few trades.

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