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| Fund Overview | PanAgora believes the best way to find opportunities in the global markets is to combine fundamental analysis with robust quantitative techniques in order to filter the investment universe and select the investments. The Fund invests primarily in listed equity securities from a global universe of developed markets and a select group of emerging market countries. The Fund's objective is to seek absolute returns by identifying and exploiting multiple inefficiencies that may exist in global equity markets. These inefficiencies are primarily exploited through the use of a long/short equity strategy which aims to construct a portfolio that is generally neutral to market movements. As such the performance of the investment strategy is largely independent of the market's performance. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by using a diversified set of strategies that have low correlation to one another. In addition, because many of these strategies are designed to generate profit under different market conditions, their combination is expected to result in more stable returns over time than any individual strategy in and of itself. |
| Manager Comments | The U.S. sleeve of the long-term portfolio detracted -1.27% from performance in large part due to the poor returns of valuation based signals during the first 3 weeks of the month. Sector-wise the biggest detraction occurred in Information Technology (-0.80%) and Consumer Discretionary (-0.50%). The positive contribution from Health Care (+0.20%) and Industrials (+0.12%), alleviated some of the underperformance. The international sleeve of the long-term portfolio contributed a marginal +0.01% in April, driven by mixed factor performance. The intermediate-term portfolio contributed a negligible +0.01% in April. The short-term strategies proved more effective with a net contribution of +0.08%, attributable primarily to earnings related trades. |
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