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| Fund Overview | The Bennelong Australian Equities Fund seeks quality investment opportunities which are under-appreciated and have the potential to deliver positive earnings. The investment process combines bottom-up fundamental analysis with proprietary investment tools that are used to build and maintain high quality portfolios that are risk aware. The investment team manages an extensive company/industry contact program which helps identify and verify various investment opportunities. The companies within the portfolio are primarily selected from, but not limited to, the S&P/ASX 300 Index. The Fund may invest in securities listed on other exchanges where such securities relate to the ASX-listed securities. The Fund typically holds between 25-60 stocks with a maximum net targeted position of an individual stock of 6%. |
| Manager Comments | Over the March quarter the largest positive contributors were IDP Education, Rio Tinto, Breville and Goodman Group. Key detractors included Costa Group and Reliance Worldwide. Bennelong's view is that investor sentiment still remains cautious despite the strong recovery over the past quarter. They observe that investors are still very much attracted to what is perceived to be safe, as evidenced by the recent outperformance of bonds, gold stocks, REITs, infrastructure and comfort stocks like Woolworths. However, they believe investors are incrementally paying more attention to fundamental drivers like earnings and growth which they expect will be supportive of returns. |
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