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9 Nov 2018 - Performance Report: Newgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date09 November 2018
ManagerNewgate Capital Partners Pty Ltd
Fund NameNewgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateSeptember 2018
Latest Return9.85%
Latest 6 Months1.30%
Latest 12 Months9.76%
Latest 24 Months24.61%
Annualised Since Inception11.93%
Inception Date01 July 2013
FUM (millions)
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 10 to 12% 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, Andrew Lewandowski.
Manager CommentsThe Newgate Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund has returned +11.93% per annum since inception in July 2013 versus the ASX200 Accumulation Index's +9.80%. This return has been achieved with slightly lower volatility. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios, 1.10 and 1.92 respectively, highlight the Fund's capacity to achieve good risk-adjusted returns whilst also protecting investors' capital from the market's downside. This is also supported by the Fund's down-capture ratio since inception of -37.9%, which indicates that, on average, the Fund has risen the months the market has fallen.

Over the September quarter, the Fund returned -2.13%. Newgate noted that, over the quarter, the Fund has been impacted by the market's concerns over the escalation of trade conflict between the USA and China. Positive contributors included Japara Healthcare (JHC), Centuria Industrial REIT (CIP), Sydney Airport (SYD) and Updater (UPD). Detractors included Charter Hall Group (CHC), Mirvac Group (MGR) and Data Exchange (DXN).

In their latest report, Newgate describe how the Fund benefited from share price declines in the aged care sector after the ABC's Four Corners report and the Prime Minister's subsequent announcement of a Royal Commission. They also discuss their views on Mirvac Group after the Fund's short position in the company failed to deliver.
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