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1 May 2020 - Performance Report: Ark Global Fund - Class B AUD Unhedged

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date01 May 2020
ManagerAI Funds Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameArk Global Fund - Class B AUD Unhedged
StrategyManaged Futures
Latest Return DateMarch 2020
Latest Return11.45%
Latest 6 Months12.22%
Latest 12 Months25.30%
Latest 24 Months (pa)23.38%
Annualised Since Inception18.45%
Inception Date01 September 2019
FUM (millions)
Fund OverviewThe Ark Global Fund (AGF) invests in Fund One which is an open-ended exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands with registration number 287801, with a Singapore Investment Manager called Swiss Asia Financial Services (SAFS).

The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital appreciation with low correlation to global equity markets through investment in the Underlying Fund.

Fund One is a global macro fund that utilises quantitative research including machine learning techniques and fully automated trading algorithms which will aim to generate positive uncorrelated returns relative to any significant equity benchmark. The traded instruments are either major FX pairs or the most liquid exchange traded stock index, bond, and commodity futures across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The algorithm backtests over 10 years of tick data and in order to do so effectively requires machine learning to filter noise and identify meaningful signals, which results in statistically significant prediction of price movements. In production this processing is done in real time and the portfolio reacts to asset movements by rebalancing automatically to the desired risk exposure through the market impact optimised execution logic.

Risk management layers built into the algorithm have been developed using the experience the team has gained from their decades in highly liquid fast-moving markets in the proprietary High Frequency Trading world. This allows the system to trade autonomously but safely to all trading opportunities and potential system issues, and to alert the team to any behaviour outside of strictly controlled bounds.

The Fund is a 'feeder fund' which indirectly gains exposure to the underlying assets by investing all or substantially all of its assets in the Underlying Fund. The Fund may retain a certain amount of cash from the investment in the Fund for the purpose of payment of costs, fees, hedging and expenses.
Manager CommentsThe Ark Global Fund (unhedged) rose +11.45% in March, outperforming AFM's Global Equity Index by +19.52% and taking annualised performance since inception to +18.45% versus the Index's +8.92%. The Fund's Sharpe and Sortino ratios for performance since inception, 1.35 and 2.78 respectively, by contrast with the Index's Sharpe of 0.68 and Sortino of 0.91, highlight its capacity to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns whilst avoiding the market's downside volatility. The Fund's down-capture ratio for performance since inception of -79.59% indicates that, on average, the Fund has risen during the months the market has fallen.

The best performing assets for the month were: 10 year Canadian Government bond futures (+3.17% of NAV), TOPIX futures (+2.34% of NAV), and E-mini Russell 2000 futures (+2.16% of NAV). The worst performing assets were: E-mini NASDAQ 100 future (-1.22% of NAV), Euro Stoxx 50 future (-4.07% of NAV) and ASX200 Index future (-4.97% of NAV).
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