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30 Sep 2015 - Freehold Absolute Return Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date28 September 2015
ManagerFreehold Investment Management
Fund Name Freehold Absolute Return Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateAugust 2015
Latest Return-0.65%
Latest 6 Months2.58%
Latest 12 Months11.83%
Latest 24 Months33.39%
Annualised Since Inception16.70%
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 -0.65% in a weak and volatile equity market (ASX200 Total Return), which declined 7.79%. Since inception, the Fund has an annualised return of 16.50% p.a (Index 8.56%). The Fund has achieved this return with low volatility of 4.08% (Index 12.42%) to give notable Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 3.27 (Index 0.54) and 9.07 (Index 0.69) respectively.

The portfolio's positive contributors in August were Westfield Group, Investa Office and Goodman Group. Negative Contributors were DUET, Federation Centres, APN Property Group. Both, the Retail and the Infrastructure sectors continued to present a strong reporting season. In Retail, specialty sales growth averaged 4.5% and was the highest in many years for Scentre Group, GPT Group and Stockland. In the Infrastructure sector, the dividend announcements and guidance were strong from Sydney Airport (SYD), Spark Infrastructure and Transurban.

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