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7 Apr 2020 - Performance Report: Australian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date07 April 2020
ManagerAustralian Eagle Asset Management
Fund NameAustralian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund
StrategyEquity Long/Short
Latest Return DateMarch 2020
Latest Return-16.24%
Latest 6 Months-16.09%
Latest 12 Months-4.13%
Latest 24 Months (pa)4.47%
Annualised Since Inception12.18%
Inception Date27 June 2016
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewThe Australian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund aims to achieve strong double digit returns by allowing clients to access Australian Eagle's demonstrated historical strength in constructing Australian share portfolios applied to a long-short product. Using a combination of Australian Eagle's actual long investment performance in conjunction with a short selling discipline, suggests that this product can provide strong investment returns along with an alpha performance that is negatively correlated to the broader Australian equity market.
Manager CommentsThe Australian Eagle Trust Long-Short Fund outperformed the ASX200 Accumulation Index by +4.41% in March. Since inception in July 2016, the Fund has returned +12.18% p.a. versus the Index's +3.55%. The Fund's up-capture and down-capture ratios for performance since inception, 132.6% and 79.6% respectively, highlight the Fund's capacity to outperform in both rising and falling markets.

The Fund returned -16.24% against the Index's -20.65% in March. The portfolio's largest positive contributions came from long positions in ASX Ltd, Fortescue Metals and Resmed Inc. Key detractors included long positions in Japara Healthcare, QBE Insurance Group Ltd, and a short position in Cimic Group. The Fund had 31 long positions and 24 short positions with largest exposure to medical devices & services and technology stocks. At month-end, the portfolio had relatively less exposure to banking and materials stocks.

Australian Eagle noted they remain focused on taking long-term positions in high quality growth companies with strong balance sheets that will be able to take advantage of weaker competitors once this downturn passes. Consequently, outside of minor trades to take advantage of large falls in certain stock prices during the month, they do not intend to trade excessively during this volatile time nor change the net exposure, but allow the strong individual company attributes to produce the Fund's results.
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