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29 Jun 2020 - Performance Report: Quay Global Real Estate Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date29 June 2020
ManagerQuay Global Investors
Fund NameQuay Global Real Estate Fund
StrategyReal Estate
Latest Return DateMay 2020
Latest Return-0.99%
Latest 6 Months-17.03%
Latest 12 Months-8.98%
Latest 24 Months (pa)4.90%
Annualised Since Inception5.78%
Inception Date31 July 2014
FUM (millions)AU$163.75
Fund OverviewQuay is a boutique investment management business established in 2013 with a focus on preserving and creating wealth for investors through investments in real estate securities. Quay uses a dual manager approach to the investment and portfolio management decision making process. This involves both Principals collaborating to determine significant portfolio investments and positions.

The Fund will invest in a number of global listed real estate companies, groups or funds. The investment strategy is to make investments in real estate securities at a price that will deliver a real, after inflation, total return of 5% per annum (before costs and fees), inclusive of distributions over a longer-term period.

The Investment Strategy is indifferent to the constraints of any index benchmarks and is relatively concentrated in its number of investments. The Fund is expected to own between 20 and 40 securities, and from time to time up to 20% of the portfolio maybe invested in cash. The Fund is $A un-hedged.
Manager CommentsThe Quay Global Real Estate Fund has returned +5.78% p.a. with an annualised volatility of 12.22% since inception in January 2016. In May the Fund returned -1.0% with currency providing a -1.4% drag. Returns were negatively impacts by the Fund's exposure to Hong Kong as the Chinese Communist Party announced new national security laws for the island. Quay's decision to maintain their exposure is a reflection of their investment process - identifying quality real estate, conservatively financed, with low dividend pay-out ratios and a return profile that exceeds Quay's long-term return requirement of CPI + 5%.

Quay noted that, considering global real estate has lagged the general equity market recovery, and given that the operating environment was generally better than expected, they saw an opportunity to redeploy cash across their preferred names, as well as top up on sectors that had been hit hardest (Healthcare and Retail).

For long-term investors, Quay's view is that valuations look very attractive at current levels, however, their biggest concern remains access to capital and rent collection. To date these concerns have been allayed as more companies reported over the month.
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