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20 Nov 2015 - Signature Quantitative Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date18 November 2015
ManagerQuant Investment Management Services Pty Ltd
Fund NameSignature Quantitative Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateOctober 2015
Latest Return1.80%
Latest 6 Months-1.17%
Latest 12 Months-3.43%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception8.67%
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 +1.80% for the month of October, to bring annualised performance since inception to 8.67% p.a. In comparison the ASX200 Accumulation Index returned 3.32% p.a. The Fund achieved this return with lower volatility of 8.18% than the Index (13.16%).

The Dividend Arbitrage strategy continued its recent solid performance with stock specific out-performance from Bank of Queensland, Harvey Norman and TPG Telecom. The strong equity markets led to capital markets transactions and the Capital Raisings strategy performed well. Alpha Capture under-performed as the market moved away from fundamentals during the strong market rally. The Fund had a net exposure of 45%, of which 22.7% exposure was in the Financial sector.

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