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13 Aug 2019 - Performance Report: Cyan C3G Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date13 August 2019
ManagerCyan Investment Management
Fund NameCyan C3G Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateJuly 2019
Latest Return5.18%
Latest 6 Months15.86%
Latest 12 Months4.60%
Latest 24 Months (pa)12.28%
Annualised Since Inception19.99%
Inception Date24 July 2014
FUM (millions)AU$35
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 +5.2% in July, outperforming the ASX200 Accumulation Index by +2.26% and marking 5 years since inception in August 2014. Over that time the Fund has achieved an annualised return of +19.99% versus the Index's +8.55%. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios, 1.58 and 3.17 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.64 and Sortino of 0.88, highlight the Fund's capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns whilst avoiding the market's downside volatility. The Fund's down-capture ratio since inception of -3.37% indicates that, on average, the Fund has risen during the months the market has fallen.

Top contributors during the month included Alcidion, Quickfee, Readcloud, Atomos and PSC Insurance. Cyan noted very few of the Fund's holdings performed poorly in July.

Cyan believe ongoing trade wars and associated currency fluctuations are likely to continue to drive sentiment in the short term. They noted that, rather than trying to pick short-term trading directions, they continue to invest on a stock specific basis through a well-diversified portfolio of around 30 companies. Cyan expect the market to focus more fully on individual company performance rather than macro events and short-term sentiment during reporting season.
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