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3 Mar 2020 - Performance Report: Insync Global Quality Equity Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date03 March 2020
ManagerInsync Fund Managers
Fund NameInsync Global Quality Equity Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateJanuary 2020
Latest Return5.23%
Latest 6 Months9.96%
Latest 12 Months38.03%
Latest 24 Months (pa)21.00%
Annualised Since Inception14.18%
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 +5.23% in January, outperforming AFM's Global Equity Benchmark by +1.5% and taking 12-month performance to +38.03%. Since inception in October 2009, the Fund has returned +14.18% versus the Index's +11.93%. The Fund's Sortino ratio of 2.23 and down-capture ratio of 60.2% for performance since inception highlight the Insync's focus on protecting investor capital in falling markets.

Positive contributors in January included Intuit, Visa, Adobe, S&P Global, and PayPal. Detractors were Bookings.com, Treasury Wine Estates, Boston Scientific, Walt Disney and Estee Lauder. The Fund continues to have no currency hedging in place as Insync consider the main risks to the AUD to be skewed to the downside.

Insync believe the prevailing low growth and low inflation environment is unlikely to change in the medium term.
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