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7 May 2020 - Performance Report: Surrey Australian Equities Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date07 May 2020
ManagerSurrey Asset Management Pty Ltd
Fund NameSurrey Australian Equities Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateApril 2020
Latest Return16.90%
Latest 6 Months-10.16%
Latest 12 Months-8.82%
Latest 24 Months (pa)
Annualised Since Inception-2.42%
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 rose +16.9% in April, outperforming the ASX200 Accumulation Index by +8.12% as many of the Fund's companies recovered from the oversold levels seen during March. Surrey noted that, while the full impact of COVID-19 on the economy is yet to be seen, the stock market typically moves in advance of economic data, pointing specifically to data coming out of China as they begin to re-open (see the latest report).

During the month Surrey were in active contact with in excess of 70 companies as they updated their existing holdings, searched for new ideas and analysed how various industries were tracking.

The Fund's top holdings as at the end of April included Appen (APX), Omni Bridgeway (OBL), Opticom (OPC), Saracen Minerals (SAR) and Xero Limited (XRO). By sector, the Fund was most heavily weighted towards the Industrials and IT sectors.

The Fund holdings remain in high quality companies with strong balance sheets and solid outlooks that Surrey believe will continue to outperform over time.
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