Fund Monitors Pty Ltd

www.fundmonitors.com
© Copyright 2026
Printed: 21 September 2026 3:31 PM

29 Jan 2020 - Performance Report: Insync Global Quality Equity Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
Copy Article Link

Report Date29 January 2020
ManagerInsync Fund Managers
Fund NameInsync Global Quality Equity Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateDecember 2019
Latest Return-0.35%
Latest 6 Months8.85%
Latest 12 Months37.24%
Latest 24 Months (pa)19.97%
Annualised Since Inception13.74%
Inception Date01 July 2018
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewInsync's investment strategy is driven by fundamentals combined with active risk management with the aim of investing in high quality, large cap global companies at attractive prices. Insync looks for companies that can consistently pay rising dividends and earn high returns on invested capital. Insync aims to provide investors with long-term capital growth and some income.

Insync employs four simple screens to narrow the universe of over 40,000 listed companies globally to a focus group of high-quality companies that it believes have the potential to consistently grow their profits and dividends. These screens are: size of the company, balance sheet performance, valuation and dividend quality. Companies that pass this due diligence process are then valued using dividend discount models, free cash flow yield and proprietary implied growth and expected return models. The end result is a high conviction portfolio typically of 15-30 stocks.

The principal investments will be in shares of companies listed on international stock exchanges (including the US, Europe and Asia). The Fund may also hold cash, derivatives (for example futures, options and swaps), currency contracts, American Depository Receipts and Global Depository Receipts. The Fund may also invest in various types of international pooled investment vehicles.
Manager CommentsThe Insync Global Quality Equity Fund returned +37.24% over CY2019, outperforming AFM's Global Equity Benchmark by +10.05% and taking annualised performance since inception in October 2009 to +13.74% versus the Index's +11.63%. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios, 1.08 and 2.14 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.90 and Sortino of 1.52, highlight the Fund's capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returned whilst avoiding the market's downside volatility.

The Fund fell in line with the market in December, returning -0.35%. Positive contributors included London Stock Exchange, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Booking Holdings and Apple. Detractors included Walt Disney, Intuit, PayPal and Facebook. The Fund continues to have no currency hedging in place as Insync consider the main risks to the Australian dollar to be on the downside.
More Information

Australian Fund Monitors Pty Ltd
A.C.N. 122 226 724
AFSL 324476
Email: contact@fundmonitors.com
Live chat