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28 Jan 2020 - Performance Report: Surrey Australian Equities Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date28 January 2020
ManagerSurrey Asset Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameSurrey Australian Equities Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateDecember 2019
Latest Return-2.90%
Latest 6 Months3.75%
Latest 12 Months19.56%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception3.94%
Inception Date01 June 2018
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewThe Investment Manager will be primarily focussed on investing in companies listed in the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index while retaining capacity to invest up to 30% of the Fund in ASX listed companies outside this benchmark. The Investment Manager believes this approach offers attractive, under researched investment opportunities that can provide capital upside and growing dividend income over rolling 5-year periods.

The Investment Manager follows a defined investment process which is underpinned by detailed bottom up fundamental analysis, overlayed with sectoral and macroeconomic research. This is combined with an extensive company visitation program where we endeavour to meet with company management and with other stakeholders such as suppliers, customers and industry bodies to improve our information set.

Surrey Asset Management defines its investment process as Qualitative, Quantitative and Value Latencies (QQV). In essence, the Investment Manager thoroughly researches an investment's qualitative and quantitative characteristics in an attempt to find value latencies not yet reflected in the share price and then clearly defines a roadmap to realisation of those latencies.

Developing this roadmap is a key step in the investment process. By articulating a clear pathway as to how and when an investment can realise what the Investment Manager sees as latent value, defines the investment proposition and lessens the impact of cognitive dissonance. This is undertaken with a philosophical underpinning of fact-based investing, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Manager CommentsThe Surrey Australian Equities Fund fell in line with the market in December, returning -2.90%. Over CY2019 the Fund rose +19.54% with a volatility of 12.04%. The Fund had a number of positive contributors during the month including IMF Bentham, Cooper Energy and Lifestyle Communities. However, Surrey were disappointed in the unsatisfactory performance of the Fund's investments in Smart Group and Jumbo Interactive. They noted they were able to limit the negative impact of these two positions thanks to the Fund's structure allowing them to adjust very quickly.

The Fund's cash weighting totalled 11% at month-end with 29 individual stock holdings. The top holdings included Bravura Solutions, Cooper Energy, Corporate Travel, IMF Group and Xero Limited.

From a macro/global perspective, Surrey noted two features that have emerged include an increasing shift toward gold and the rise in the oil price, both of which are correlated to increasing tensions in the middle-east. Surrey believe the Fund is well positioned for this uncertainty and the Fund's gold and energy weightings increasing materially at the start of January.
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