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29 Mar 2019 - Performance Report: Quay Global Real Estate Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date29 March 2019
ManagerQuay Global Investors
Fund NameQuay Global Real Estate Fund
StrategyReal Estate
Latest Return DateFebruary 2019
Latest Return3.20%
Latest 6 Months4.85%
Latest 12 Months26.95%
Latest 24 Months29.94%
Annualised Since Inception9.48%
Inception Date31 July 2014
FUM (millions)AU$28
Fund OverviewQuay is a boutique investment management business established in 2013 with a focus on preserving and creating wealth for investors through investments in real estate securities. Quay uses a dual manager approach to the investment and portfolio management decision making process. This involves both Principals collaborating to determine significant portfolio investments and positions.

The Fund will invest in a number of global listed real estate companies, groups or funds. The investment strategy is to make investments in real estate securities at a price that will deliver a real, after inflation, total return of 5% per annum (before costs and fees), inclusive of distributions over a longer-term period.

The Investment Strategy is indifferent to the constraints of any index benchmarks and is relatively concentrated in its number of investments. The Fund is expected to own between 20 and 40 securities, and from time to time up to 20% of the portfolio maybe invested in cash. The Fund is $A un-hedged.
Manager CommentsThe Quay Global Real Estate Fund rose +3.2% in February, outperforming its benchmark (FTSE/EPRA NAREIT Developed Index Net TR AUD) by +0.8% and taking annualised performance since inception in Jan 2016 to +9.48%. The February return was assisted by a +2.3% currency gain. Gains in currency reversed some of the headwinds in January such that over the past 2 months the currency has neither added to or deducted from total returns, thus performance CYTD (+10.3%) has been driven largely by stock returns.

Top contributors in February included Safestore, Sun Communities and Coresite. Detractors included LEG Immobilien, Scentre Group and Ventas. Quay noted so far this year they haven't received any earnings shocks from any of their investees, which they believe is due to their strategy to invest in simple, easy to understand rent-based real estate opportunities (the strategy avoids deeply cyclical developers, fund managers, infrastructure, etc.).

The portfolio remains largely unchanged as Quay continue to back their long run themes of ageing demographics, home affordability, student accommodation and best in class retail. They noted they liquidated a small position in Canadian housing (Boardwalk) and re-invested the proceeds in some of the Fund's investees that have underperformed recently (Scentre, LEG and Ventas), reducing the number of stocks to 25 across the portfolio.
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