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21 Jul 2015 - Totus Alpha Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date09 July 2015
ManagerTotus Capital
Fund NameTotus Alpha Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateJune 2015
Latest Return6.25%
Latest 6 Months9.74%
Latest 12 Months22.68%
Latest 24 Months57.63%
Annualised Since Inception24.96%
Inception Date01 April 2012
FUM (millions)AU$17
Fund OverviewThe Totus Alpha Fund aims to maximise returns for investors through fundamental industry and company research and active portfolio management. The investment strategy is based on identifying medium to long term structural investment themes and seek absolute returns by investing in securities that have concentrated exposure to those themes.

The Fund is a long/short investment fund principally investing in listed entities, commodities, futures and options in Australia and internationally. The Fund is not a market neutral fund and accordingly may switch between net long positions and net short positions. The Fund may use short sales and derivatives.

Gearing may be used to enhance returns and the Fund may be geared in excess of 100% of the Fund's Net Asset Value. There is a limit to net exposure of 150%.
Manager CommentsTotus Alpha Fund reported a strong 6.30% net of fees return in June, in a weak Australian equity market with ASX200 Total Return down 5.30%. The Fund's annual performance of has increased to 24.96% p.a (Index 12.14% p.a.). The Sharpe and Sortino ratio were notable at 1.44 (Index 1.03) and 3.90 (Index 1.29) respectively. This performance has been delivered with low beta of -0.0407 and correlation of -0.0352 to the ASX300 Accumulation Index.

At the end of June, the fund had a net exposure of 13.90% and a gross exposure of 296.10%. The fund was diversified across a number investment themes and geographies with 113 positions (59 long and 54 short).Top contributors in June were the short position in Slater and Gordon +1.41% (Earnings Risk), long positions in Smartgroup +1.07% (Scarce Growth) and Adairs +0.65% (Scarce Growth). The biggest detractors were the long positions in Flight Centre -0.59% (Scarce Growth), Domino's -0.32% (Scarce Growth) and the short position in Sandfire -0.57% (Commodities).

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