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22 Dec 2015 - Signature Quantitative Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date17 December 2015
ManagerQuant Investment Management Services Pty Ltd
Fund NameSignature Quantitative Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateNovember 2015
Latest Return2.10%
Latest 6 Months2.13%
Latest 12 Months-2.57%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception9.46%
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 +2.1% for the month of November, to bring annualised performance since inception to 9.46% p.a. In comparison, the ASX200 Accumulation Index has an annualised returned of 2.80% p.a. The Fund has achieved this return with lower volatility of 8.06 than the Index (12.89%).

The Dividend Arbitrage strategy contributed strong performance, with continued stock specific outperformance from Bank of Queensland, OzForex Group and Dulux Group. The Alpha Capture also performed strongly due to a short resources exposure. Index Rebalance Strategy contributed to performance this month across the ASX200 and various global indices. Capital Raisings Strategy underperformed, which was driven by the weak performance of the heavily-discounted Santos rights issue. The Fund had a net exposure of 48%, of which 26.3% exposure was in the Financial sector.

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