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16 Mar 2017 - NWQ Fiduciary Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date15 March 2017
ManagerNWQ Capital Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameNWQ Fiduciary Fund
StrategyMulti Strategy
Latest Return DateFebruary 2017
Latest Return-0.35%
Latest 6 Months-3.83%
Latest 12 Months-2.41%
Latest 24 Months6.63%
Annualised Since Inception5.87%
Inception Date15 March 2017
FUM (millions)AU$95.66
Fund OverviewThe NWQ Fiduciary Fund (Fund), managed by NWQ Capital Management, is a diversified multi-manager portfolio, modelled on NWQ's Fiduciary Model Portfolio. The principal investment objective of the Fund is to produce attractive positive returns irrespective of market direction. This is achieved through active allocations to selective fund managers that employ a variety of traditional and absolute return strategies. The Fund places emphasis on managers who demonstrate a rigorous and repeatable investment process that has delivered a strong track record.

The Fund aims to produce returns, after management fees and expenses of between 8% to 11% p.a. over rolling five-year periods. Furthermore, the Fund aims to achieve these returns with volatility that is a fraction of the Australian equity market, in order to smooth returns for investors.
Manager CommentsNWQ Fiduciary Fund returned -0.35% in February bringing the annualised return since inception in May 2013 to +5.87% p.a. Over the same period, the ASX 200 Accumulation Index has returned +7.21% p.a. Notably, the Fund has achieved this performance with less than half of the risk of the Australian equity market (Fund volatility of 5.00% p.a. vs. 12.02% p.a. for the Index).

There was a high degree of dispersion in the performance of the Fund's underlying managers in February. The Fund's Alpha managers combined to make a modest contribution to performance (+0.12%). However, the Fund's overall performance was weighed down by the performance of the Beta managers combined, to post a negative contribution of -0.41%. It remains the view of NWQ that there exists further potential for destructive equity and bond market volatility in the coming months, and therefore, the portfolio continues to remain overweight to the Alpha or market neutral strategies.
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