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1 Sep 2015 - Freehold Absolute Return Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date27 August 2015
ManagerFreehold Investment Management
Fund Name Freehold Absolute Return Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateJuly 2015
Latest Return1.45%
Latest 6 Months4.39%
Latest 12 Months14.58%
Latest 24 Months39.93%
Annualised Since Inception17.79%
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 delivered a positive 1.45% return for the month of July. Since inception, the Fund has an annualised return of 17.79% p.a. (Index 13.24%). The Fund has achieved this return with low volatility of 3.92% (Index 11.13%) to give notable Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 3.63 (Index 0.96) and 10.30 (Index 1.52) respectively.

The portfolio's positive contributors in July were Westfield Group, Sydney Airport and Macquarie Atlas. Negative Contributors were Bunnings Warehouse, Asciano and Aurizon. Over June and July the AREIT market returned +1.3% whilst the broader equities market declined 1.1%. The Fund returned +3.3% over the same period with considerably lower volatility.

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