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27 May 2016 - Signature Quantitative Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date25 May 2016
ManagerQuant Investment Management Services Pty Ltd
Fund NameSignature Quantitative Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateApril 2016
Latest Return-0.30%
Latest 6 Months1.12%
Latest 12 Months-0.06%
Latest 24 Months7.32%
Annualised Since Inception7.26%
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 -0.30% for the month of April, compared to the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index's return of 3.37%, an underperformance of 3.67%. Since inception the Fund has an annualised return of 7.26% (Index 3.72% p.a). The Fund has achieved this return with lower volatility of 7.78% than the Index's 12.95%.

Capital Raisings continued its strong outperformance recently as the capital markets continued to provide numerous opportunities and SQF's market exposure also contributed to performance. Dividend Arbitrage and Alpha Capture strategies underperformed during April's resource-led market rally.

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