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27 May 2020 - Performance Report: Insync Global Quality Equity Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date27 May 2020
ManagerInsync Fund Managers
Fund NameInsync Global Quality Equity Fund
StrategyEquity Long
Latest Return DateApril 2020
Latest Return6.14%
Latest 6 Months4.10%
Latest 12 Months13.33%
Latest 24 Months (pa)15.81%
Annualised Since Inception13.26%
Inception Date01 July 2018
FUM (millions)AU$23.8234
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 rose +6.14% in April, outperforming AFM's Global Equity Index by +1.99% and taking annualised performance since October 2009 to +13.26% versus the Index's +10.57%. Over the past 12 months the Fund has outperformed the Index by +10.56%. The Fund's capacity to avoid significant losses when the market falls is highlighted by its down-capture ratio of 65.7% for performance since inception.

The Fund's top 10 holdings as at the end of April included Facebook, Adobe, PayPal, Microsoft, Apple, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, Domino's Pizza, Accenture and S&P Global. The top three megatrends by weighting in the portfolio at month-end were the 'Age related health solutions' megatrend (16%), the 'Digitisation' megatrend (13%) and the 'Cashless Society' megatrend (9%).
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