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16 Feb 2016 - QATO Capital Market Neutral Long/Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date12 February 2016
ManagerQATO Capital
Fund NameQATO Capital Market Neutral Long/Short Fund
StrategyEquity Market Neutral
Latest Return DateJanuary 2016
Latest Return4.90%
Latest 6 Months2.02%
Latest 12 Months-3.07%
Latest 24 Months
Annualised Since Inception20.83%
Inception Date01 August 2014
FUM (millions)AU$49
Fund OverviewQATO Capital's Market Neutral Long/Short Fund is managed via an objective, consistent and replicable process utilising proprietary 'Q-Score' methodology. The Q-score process is fundamentally based, evaluating improving and deteriorating fundamentals within each business from a variety of financial metrics such as valuation, growth, risk, quality, earnings and price.

The fund targets a net market exposure of 0% to hedge broader market risks through 30 S&P/ASX-100 positions (15 long and 15 short equally weighted positions). The turnover is generally averaged around 30% of the total portfolio each month. The process is entirely systematic - stock selection and risk management are all employed in a rules based approach. The Market Neutral Long/Short Fund employs no financial leverage, no derivatives and no financial products to imitate leverage.

The Investment Manager's three principal investment goals for the Fund are:

1. Market neutral long/short portfolio management with little correlation to equity markets;

2. Over a 3-5 year period, seeking to target annualised volatility of 15% per annum and annualised returns of 15-30% per annum above the Benchmark; Sharpe Ratio 1.0-2.0 and a negative beta to ASX listed equities; and

3. To provide investors with a co-investment opportunity alongside the founding members' investments in the Investment Manager's strategy.
Manager CommentsQATO Capital Market Neutral Long/Short Fund returned a solid +4.90% versus the S&P/ASX-100's fall of -5.48%; an outperformance of +10.38%. Since inception, the Fund has an annualised return of 20.83% p.a. compared to the Index -7.66% p.a during the same time-frame. The Fund's return has been achieved this return with lower volatility than the Index, to give notable Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 1.33 and 2.55 respectively.

Nine of the long positions outperformed the S&P/ASX-100's fall in January. The Fund's long portfolio had six positions which delivered positive returns. These positions delivered a significant amount of alpha for the Fund. The long portfolio outperformed the market by +2.70% this month. Ten of the short positions outperformed the S&P/ASX-100's fall in January. Eight of these companies provided returns in excess of 10% for the month which added a significant amount of value to the Fund.The average net monthly exposure of the portfolio was 7.28%.
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