Wholesale Geared Australian Equity

This strategy is a geared version of the Acadian Australian Managed Volatility Fund which aims to deliver market-like returns with significantly less volatility than the market over the long term.

INVESTMENT UNIVERSE

1000+ Australian companies (includes ex-index stocks to maximise the opportunity set)

RETURN FORECAST

Daily analysis at stock-specific, peer group, and macro level results in objective risk and return forecast

PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION & TRADING

Forecasts enter proprietary portfolio optimisation system, weighing expected return against risk, liquidity and T-costs

Investment philosophy

Financial assets are often mispriced due to behavioural errors, such as incorrectly processing information or acting on incomplete information.

Top-performing companies display many qualities. Their success is multi-faceted and cannot be attributed to any single factor.

Market inefficiencies and attractive opportunities are best captured using systematic processes.

Curated application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology can help extract pertinent information from large, complex datasets.

Investment processes must be dynamic and adapt to changes in investor behaviour and the investment environment.

Acadian’s edge comes from embracing innovative ideas and continuously investing in people, technology, and data.

Why Managed Volatility for geared Australian equities?

  • The fund uses gearing (managed by CFS) with the aim of magnifying returns from the underlying Australian equity strategy.
  • Gearing the underlying strategy has the potential to reduce drawdowns compared to gearing a normal index strategy and therefore aim to provide higher expected returns for lower risk over the long term.
  • Empirical evidence shows low-risk equities have delivered returns on par with average-risk equities and substantially better returns than high-risk equities over the long term.
  • This is known as the low volatility anomaly, and the managed volatility strategy aims to exploit this.
  • In addition to risk and return forecasts, Acadian’s investment process incorporates transaction cost estimates, portfolio constraints, and security correlations to enhance returns.
  • The fund uses gearing (managed by CFS) with the aim of magnifying returns from the underlying Australian equity strategy.
  • Gearing the underlying strategy has the potential to reduce drawdowns compared to gearing a normal index strategy and therefore aim to provide higher expected returns for lower risk over the long term.

As of March 2024

APIR Code FSF0453AU
 Inception Date 14 May 2018
 Management Cost 0.96% / 2.07%  
 Buy / Sell spread 0.15/0.40%
 Product Size  $333 million
 Benchmark S&P / ASX 300 Accumulation Index
Colonial First State Investments Limited (“CFS”) is the responsible entity for this fund, ABN 98 002 348 352, AFS Licence 232468. You can find the target market determinations (TMD) for this fund at www.cfs.com.au/tmd, which include a description of who a financial product might suit. You should also read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Financial Services Guide (FSG) carefully, assess whether the information is appropriate for you, and consider talking to a financial adviser before making an investment decision. You can get the PDS and FSG at www.cfs.com.au or by calling CFS on 13 13 36. All Fund (NAV) returns are calculated on an annualised basis using exit price to exit price with distributions reinvested, net of management costs, transaction costs. All return calculations exclude any individual taxes payable by the investor and all other fees and rebates disclosed in the relevant product disclosure statements available on our website or by calling us. The ‘distribution’ component is the amount paid by the way of distribution, which may include net realised capital gains. Portfolio holdings are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell individual securities. Reference to the benchmark is for comparative purposes only and is not intended to indicate that the Fund will contain the same investments as the benchmark. Investors have the opportunity for losses as well as profits. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index Source: Copyright © 2024, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC. All rights reserved.

As of March 2024

  Fund (Gross)  Fund (NAV)  Benchmark  Value-Added vs. Benchmark
One Month Return 5.5 5.3 3.3 2.0
Three Month Return 11.1
 10.6 5.4 5.1
Year-to-Date Return 11.1 10.6 5.4 5.1
One Year Annualized Return 17.9 15.4 14.4 1.0
Three Year Annualized Return 13.0 10.6 9.4 1.2
Five Year Annualized Return 11.0 8.7 9.1 -0.4
Since Inception Annualized Return 8.9 6.6 7.4 -0.8
Since Inception Sharpe Ratio
 0.3 0.2 0.5  
Since Inception Beta
 1.8 0.5 1.0   
Colonial First State Investments Limited (“CFS”) is the responsible entity for this fund, ABN 98 002 348 352, AFS Licence 232468. You can find the target market determinations (TMD) for this fund at www.cfs.com.au/tmd, which include a description of who a financial product might suit. You should also read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Financial Services Guide (FSG) carefully, assess whether the information is appropriate for you, and consider talking to a financial adviser before making an investment decision. You can get the PDS and FSG at www.cfs.com.au or by calling CFS on 13 13 36. All Fund (NAV) returns are calculated on an annualised basis using exit price to exit price with distributions reinvested, net of management costs, transaction costs. All return calculations exclude any individual taxes payable by the investor and all other fees and rebates disclosed in the relevant product disclosure statements available on our website or by calling us. The ‘distribution’ component is the amount paid by the way of distribution, which may include net realised capital gains. Portfolio holdings are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell individual securities. Reference to the benchmark is for comparative purposes only and is not intended to indicate that the Fund will contain the same investments as the benchmark. Investors have the opportunity for losses as well as profits. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index Source: Copyright © 2024, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC. All rights reserved.

Top Ten Holdings

As of March 2024

BHP GROUP LTD 6.3%
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 4.8%
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED 3.7%
QBE INSURANCE GROUP LTD 3.5%
BRAMBLES LTD 3.5%
MEDIBANK PVT LTD 3.1%
CSL LTD 3.0%
COLES GROUP LTD 3.0%
COMPUTERSHARE LTD 2.9%
ARISTOCRAT LEISURE LTD 2.9%
NUMBEROF SECURITIES 107
% OF PORTFOLIO FOR TOP 10 CURRENT HOLDINGS 36.7%
% OF NON-BENCHMARK PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS 1.4%

To view a full list of quarterly holdings in the Fund, visit Colonial First State.

 

Colonial First State Investments Limited (“CFS”) is the responsible entity for this fund, ABN 98 002 348 352, AFS Licence 232468. You can find the target market determinations (TMD) for this fund at www.cfs.com.au/tmd, which include a description of who a financial product might suit. You should also read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Financial Services Guide (FSG) carefully, assess whether the information is appropriate for you, and consider talking to a financial adviser before making an investment decision. You can get the PDS and FSG at www.cfs.com.au or by calling CFS on 13 13 36. All Fund (NAV) returns are calculated on an annualised basis using exit price to exit price with distributions reinvested, net of management costs, transaction costs. All return calculations exclude any individual taxes payable by the investor and all other fees and rebates disclosed in the relevant product disclosure statements available on our website or by calling us. The ‘distribution’ component is the amount paid by the way of distribution, which may include net realised capital gains. Portfolio holdings are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell individual securities. Reference to the benchmark is for comparative purposes only and is not intended to indicate that the Fund will contain the same investments as the benchmark. Investors have the opportunity for losses as well as profits. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index Source: Copyright © 2024, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC. All rights reserved.

Current Positioning - Sector

Geared Australian Equity Q1 2024

Colonial First State Investments Limited (“CFS”) is the responsible entity for this fund, ABN 98 002 348 352, AFS Licence 232468. You can find the target market determinations (TMD) for this fund at www.cfs.com.au/tmd, which include a description of who a financial product might suit. You should also read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Financial Services Guide (FSG) carefully, assess whether the information is appropriate for you, and consider talking to a financial adviser before making an investment decision. You can get the PDS and FSG at www.cfs.com.au or by calling CFS on 13 13 36. All Fund (NAV) returns are calculated on an annualised basis using exit price to exit price with distributions reinvested, net of management costs, transaction costs. All return calculations exclude any individual taxes payable by the investor and all other fees and rebates disclosed in the relevant product disclosure statements available on our website or by calling us. The ‘distribution’ component is the amount paid by the way of distribution, which may include net realised capital gains. Portfolio holdings are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell individual securities. Reference to the benchmark is for comparative purposes only and is not intended to indicate that the Fund will contain the same investments as the benchmark. Investors have the opportunity for losses as well as profits. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index Source: Copyright © 2024, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC. All rights reserved.

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