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4 May 2016 - Newgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund

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Report Date03 May 2016
ManagerNewgate Capital Partners Pty Ltd
Fund NameNewgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateMarch 2016
Latest Return-0.06%
Latest 6 Months-0.55%
Latest 12 Months0.51%
Latest 24 Months19.20%
Annualised Since Inception12.20%
Inception Date01 July 2013
FUM (millions)AU$20
Fund OverviewThe Newgate Real Estate And Infrastructure 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 Newgate's rigorous investment process ensures returns generated by the Fund are largely independent of rising or falling markets.

Newgate 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.

The Fund's investment team consists of Tim Hannon, Campbell McComb, Darren Brusnahan, Nishant Narayanaswamy and Nicole Merrillees.
Manager CommentsNewgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund was flat for (-0.06%) for the month of March. In comparison the ASX 200 Accumulation Index returned 4.73%. Since inception, the Fund has an annualised return of 12.20% p.a (Index 6.87%). This return has been achieved with lower volatility of 4.57% than the Index's 12.46%, to give notable Sharpe and Sortino ratios of 2.07 (Index 0.41) and 4.83 (Index 0.51) respectively.

The performance of the Fund's long positions were offset by the Fund's overall net short position. The shorts were a number of real estate companies that were assessed to be both overvalued and exposed to a deteriorating environment. However, despite this assessment, these positions rallied strongly over March, primarily on the back of falling bond yields. Positive contributors were Infigen, Aveo Group, Investa Office Fund, while negative contributors were Charter Hall Retail, Dexus Property Group, GPT Group. The Fund's slightly increased their net short position over the month as their overall view remains the same.

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