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25 Dec 2015 - Supervised High Yield Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date23 December 2015
ManagerSupervised Investments Australia Ltd
Fund NameSupervised High Yield Fund
StrategyFixed Income
Latest Return DateNovember 2015
Latest Return0.04%
Latest 6 Months1.99%
Latest 12 Months5.29%
Latest 24 Months11.78%
Annualised Since Inception9.74%
Inception Date01 April 2009
FUM (millions)AU$19
Fund OverviewThe Supervised High Yield Fund is an AUD denominated alternative income fund which invests only in debt securities. The investment objective of the fund is to outperform a benchmark of 1.5% above the RBA cash rate, whilst trying to minimise the risk of permanent loss of capital. The fund will invest in all forms of marketable floating and fixed income debt securities, such as asset backed debt securities, residential mortgage backed securities, corporate debt, regional and sovereign debt securities, debt/equity hybrid securities, equities and currencies. All these investments will be either listed or traded in a market where prices can be independently verified.

The fund may also invest in interest rate swaps, options over authorized investments and exchange traded futures contracts. All these will be either listed or traded in a market where they can be independently valued. Fundamental to the investment procedure is the tenet that no debt security will qualify for investment unless it can repay 100% of its principal and interest in a worst case economic scenario.
Manager CommentsSupervised High Yield Fund produced a return of +0.04% for the month of November, to bring annualised performance since inception to 9.74% p.a. During the same time frame the RBA Cash Rate Index returned 3.34% p.a. The Fund has achieved this performance with a relatively low volatility of 2.06% (Index 0.26%), to give a notable Sharpe and Sortino Ratio of 3.03 and 32.91 respectively.

The Funds returns in November were negatively affected by weakness in the US and Australian corporate debt market where the Fund has 26.76% of its assets. The Fund Manager believes this weakness to be a short term phenomena and that these market prices were affected more by sentiment than actual credit risk metrics. The overriding sentiment effecting market prices during November was due to the weakness in commodity prices. The Fund is confident that the investments made in the underlying assets are sound.

More than half of the portfolio's composition (as a percentage of NAV) was invested in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) 62.93%. The rest of the portfolio composition was in USD Corporate Loans at 22.25%, Cash at 10.31% and AUD Corporate Loans at 4.51%.

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