Damen Purcell, COO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Rodney Brott, CEO & Executive Director of DS Capital. DS Capital is a Melbourne based boutique investment manager. Their fund, the DS Capital Growth Fund was started in early in 2013 and aims to deliver an average return of at least 10% per annum through the economic cycle with a focus on preserving capital.

As at the end of November 2020, the DS Capital Growth Fund had returned +15.64% p.a. with an annualised volatility of 11.47% since inception in January 2013. By contrast, the ASX200 Accumulation Index had returned +8.82% p.a. with an annualised volatility of 14.10% over the same period. The Fund's capacity to protect investors' capital in falling markets is highlighted by its Sortino ratio of 1.75 vs the Index's 0.66 and down-capture ratio of 45%.

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Damen Purcell, COO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Alex Lee who heads up Investor Relations (Australia & New Zealand) at Laureola Advisors.

The Laureola Investment Fund invests in Life Settlements and looks to provide investors with stable, non-correlated returns while generating cash flow from investments that allow the Fund to be used as a Fixed Income Alternative as well as a portfolio diversifier.

The Fund has returned +16.59% p.a. since inception in May 2013 with a maximum drawdown of -4.90%.

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Damen Purcell, COO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Charlie Aitken, CEO & Portfolio Manager at Aitken Investment Management.

The AIM Global High Conviction Fund was started in 2015 and in 2019 was restructured from a currency hedged global long/short fund to an unhedged global long-only equity fund. Since the Fund's change of mandate, it has returned +11.25% p.a., outperforming the global equity index by over 5.5% on an annualised basis.

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Damen Purcell, COO at Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Dean Fergie, Portfolio Manager at Cyan Investment Management. 

The Cyan C3G fund is a concentrated portfolio that invests in Australian shares outside the ASX top 100. Established in 2014 the fund has outperformed the ASX 200 accumulation index to the end of October by 9.45% per annum since inception.

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Montgomery are a well known firm in the Australian funds management market and the fund recently celebrated its 1 year anniversary after being started in September 2019. In its first year, the fund has returned 15.6% for the 12 months to the end of September outperforming the Small Ordinaries Index by 19% and the ASX200 Total return index by over 25%.

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