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9 Dec 2009 - Performance Report: Regal Tasman Market Neutral Fund

By: Australian Fund Monitors
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Report Date08 December 2009
ManagerRegal Funds Management
Fund NameRegal Tasman Market Neutral Fund
StrategyEquity Market Neutral
Latest Return DateNovember 2009
Latest Return2.70%
Latest 6 Months44.02%
Latest 12 Months48.18%
Latest 24 Months40.51%
Annualised Since Inception25.08%
Inception Date03 May 2007
FUM (millions)AU$21
Fund OverviewThe Tasman Market Neutral Fund aims to maximise returns with only moderate risk and little correlation to equity markets. Investments are usually based on fundamental research and may be held for months or years. Hedging is usually achieved through single stock exposures. The fund aims to limit the volatility of returns to less than 15% pa and maintains a beta neutral portfolio. Risk limits (stock, sector, liquidity, systematic etc) are maintained to help achieve the volatility target. Most of the investments are in Australia but investments are also made in other countries on an opportunistic basis (mainly in Europe and no emerging markets).
Manager CommentsRegal's Tasman Market Neutral Fund finished November up 2.7%, making profits on both long and short positions.

Stocks experiencing corporate actions were the biggest winners on the long side. These included Sino Gold which is in the process of being taken over by El Dorado, Village which completed a large buyback, and the mining company Indophil which has been in takeover talks. On the short side the best performers were overvalued cyclicals such as Bluescope Steel and Brambles. Profit was also made on fund managers Perpetual and Platinum whose share prices may have increased too much and too quickly.

The main loss in the month was BBI which had been a big winner for the fund in October, but fell when preference shares were converted to ordinary shares as part of a recapitalisation process.
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