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Morningstar Category Alt - Market Neutral - Equity > European equity strategy
The strategy seeks long-term capital
with low correlation to
appreciation with minimal correlation to Legal Structure UCITS IV SICAV
major asset classes
the general stock market while trying to ISIN Code
keep volatility about half that of the stock Bloomber Code
> Strategy focused on a
market in which it is invested. It generally Share Class Currency EUR
systematic fundamental
takes long positions in securities of Recommended Investment
3-5 years based scoring process
European companies that score high in the Horizon
proprietary methodology and at the same Risk-Return Profile (1-7) 5 > Aims at delivering high
time have a short exposure (via futures) to Strategy inception 28/11/14 single digit performance
equity indices like the Euro STOXX 50. Strategy size EUR 63.8 mln* over a market cycle
Evolution of aum. & Total Return Performance Rolling 6m. Total Return and St. Dev. PORT & SX5E
80 30 30
rolling 6m. TR performance %
60 20
Aum (mln. )
20 22
50 10
40 15 18
30 10 0
14
20
5 -10 10
10
0 0 -20 6
11/14 05/15 11/15 05/16 11/16 05/17
-30 2
05/15 11/15 05/16 11/16 05/17
Evolution of aum. (mln.) Total return performance
sd-SX5E sd-PORT tr-SX5E tr-PORT
Performance Analysis
1 m. 3 m. Ytd 1Y 2 Y (a.) s. inc. (a.)
Port -0.37 -2.46 3.18 0.17 3.85 7.18 ** Peers' performance is calculated from a group of long-short market neutral,
EURO STOXX 50 -0.71 -3.31 6.90 16.97 6.09 5.74 european equity funds.
Peers** 0.01 0.56 0.86 0.40 -0.20 1.15 Peers' performance is net of fees, portfolio's performance is gross.
Seasonal Analysis
Ytd Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 3.18 1.02 2.16 -0.39 2.44 0.45 -0.90 -1.21 -0.37 -- -- -- --
2016 0.19 -1.40 1.90 1.62 -0.64 1.24 -1.20 1.57 0.14 0.98 -2.33 0.54 -2.09
2015 13.49 1.54 0.78 -0.49 1.87 2.06 0.18 -0.33 2.87 1.11 -0.09 0.99 2.27
2014 3.19 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 3.19
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Calculations presented here are derived from Bloomberg data. This portfolio is a carve-out of a strategy employed in an
investment fund. Performance presented here for this strategy is gross of fees.
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Flexible Equity Euro Long-Short (Market Neutral) strategy
All data as of August 31, 2017
150
-0.3 0.0
05/15 11/15 05/16 11/16 05/17 145
140 -5.0
11/14 04/15 09/15 02/16 07/16 12/16 05/17
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION
Short (futures
Long (port.)
SX5E)
Number of stocks 59 50
Weight (%) 1.4 1.7 In the first eight months of 2017 the strategy averaged gross long exposure of 91% and gross
Mkt Cap (bln.) 9 48.2 short exposure of 68%, resulting in 23% net exposure across the portfolio.
Free Cash Flow Yield 5.3 2.3 A reasonable benchmark for the funds performance is an adjusted EURO STOXX 50 Index,
P/Book 3.7 1.9 which takes the funds average net exposure and multiplies it by the EURO STOXX 50 Index
Roic (5y) 13.1 6.8 return, resulting in 1.59% for the year to date period.
Sales Growth (T12 m.) 4.4 2.7 While our contribution year to date is satisfactory, as our 3.18% return outpaced the 1.59%
Dividend Yield 2 2.6 return of the adjusted index, we recognize that the 1 year performance has been delusional
Dvd. Payout Ratio 53.1 69.7 due to a rebound in lower quality stocks and a very positive performance of the financial
Net Debt/Ebit 0.6 2.6
sector where we are net short.
Active Share 76.4
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Calculations presented here are derived from Bloomberg data. This portfolio is a carve-out of a strategy employed in an
investment fund. Performance presented here for this strategy is gross of fees.
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