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25 Sep 2018 - Performance Report: Cyan C3G Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date25 September 2018
ManagerCyan Investment Management
Fund NameCyan C3G Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateAugust 2018
Latest Return0.65%
Latest 6 Months-1.10%
Latest 12 Months17.09%
Latest 24 Months28.72%
Annualised Since Inception23.83%
Inception Date24 July 2014
FUM (millions)AU$39
Fund OverviewThe Cyan C3G Fund operates as a wholesale unregistered managed investment scheme under a unit trust structure. The Fund primarily invests in ASX listed companies outside the ASX 100 and typically holds between 15-35 stocks.

Cyan C3G Fund is based on the investment philosophy which can be defined as a comprehensive, clear and considered process focused on delivering growth. These are identified through stringent filter criteria and a rigorous research process. The Manager uses a proprietary stock filter in order to eliminate a large proportion of investments due to both internal characteristics (such as gearing levels or cash flow) and external characteristics (such as exposure to commodity prices or customer concentration).

Typically, the Fund looks for businesses that are one or more of:
a) under researched,
b) fundamentally undervalued,
c) have a catalyst for re-rating.

The Manager seeks to achieve this investment outcome by actively managing a portfolio of Australian listed securities. When the opportunity to invest in suitable securities cannot be found, the manager may reduce the level of equities exposure and accumulate a defensive cash position. Whilst it is the company's intention, there is no guarantee that any distributions or returns will be declared, or that if declared, the amount of any returns will remain constant or increase over time. The Fund does not invest in derivatives and does not use debt to leverage the Fund's performance. However, companies in which the Fund invests may be leveraged.
Manager CommentsThe Cyan C3G Fund returned +0.7% in August, taking 12-month performance to +17.09%. Since inception in August 2014, the Fund has returned +23.83% p.a. versus the ASX200 Accumulation Index's +7.62%. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios for performance since inception, 1.95 and 4.80 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.56 and Sortino of 0.75, highlight the Fund's capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns whilst focusing heavily on avoiding the market's downside losses. This is supported by the Fund's down-capture ratio since inception of -45.44%, indicating that, on average, the Fund has risen during the market's negative months.

Cyan noted the Fund experience unseen individual stock volatility during the month, with reporting season's results exacerbating underlying trading trends. Key contributors in August included Afterpay (+28%), Pivotal Systems (+30%) and Acrow Formwork (more than +50%). Detractors included Experience Co (-27%) and Axsess Today (-20%).

Cyan met with Afterpay in San Francisco in mid-August and note that they gained a meaningful understanding of the potential of their expansion into the US. They believe that every business in which they have invested will grow strongly over the coming year and thus have long-term confidence in their current investment decisions.
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