Realindex Australian Share - Class A (Gross of Fees) Flyer

31 Jul 2019

Fund strategy Fund facts Realindex forms a universe of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Benchmark ASX 200 Accum based on accounting measures. Factors such as quality, near-term value and momentum Funds under management $6583.2 million are applied to form a final portfolio of companies. The resulting portfolio has a value tilt Inception Date 17 November 2008 relative to the benchmark and provides the benefits of being lower in cost, lower turnover and highly diversified compared to traditional active investment strategies. By weighting the portfolio based on accounting measures and factors such as quality, value and momentum Realindex aims to generate higher returns versus the benchmark over the long term.

Commentary The Realindex Australian Shares Fund returned +2.28% (gross of fees) during July, versus the S&P/ASX 200 benchmark which returned +2.94%.

The largest detractor from performance was stock selection within Materials. This was driven largely by the fund’s overweight position in Fortescue Metals (-7.7%). Despite iron ore rising 5.8%, the stock took a breather after its sensational performance over the last financial year (+138.2%). The fund’s net underweight to gold stocks including Newcrest (+11.4%), Northern Star (+11.7%) and (15.1%) also detracted value.

An underweight to Health Care, the portfolio’s largest sector underweight, also detracted, with most of the performance detraction coming from the large underweight to CSL (+6.8%). Smaller amounts of relative performance was also lost from underweights to Resmed (+10.7%) and Cochlear (+6.5%). The portfolio’s positioning within Financials was another negative contributor, largely driven by an overweight position in the long suffering AMP (-15.6%) which hit all time lows during the month. Amongst the large banks, an overweight to NAB (+6.7%) and an underweight to (-0.6%) added value but were offset by overweights to ANZ (-1.1%) and (+1.0%).

The positioning within Consumer Discretionary was the largest contributor to performance, largely driven by a bounce in retail stocks on the back of recent interest rate cuts. Overweights to (+8.4%), JB Hi-Fi (+16.4%), (+9.4%) and (+7.9%) all added to performance.

With a new financial year we often see a reversal in individual stock performance. Stocks that have performed poorly tend to be sold off heavily into the financial year end, whilst the selling of of outperformers is often held over to the new financial year. This is commonly labelled as tax loss selling, but does have other drivers. Stocks that bounced in July included fund overweights to Lend Lease (+11.9%), Caltex (+8.9%), Bluescope (+8.6%) (+5.7%) and underweights to (+18.6%) and IOOF (+12.8%). Recent winners that were softer in July included underweights to (-1.5%, last financial year’s largest stock detractor) and BHP (-1.0%).

The portfolio offers a valuation discount to the market-cap benchmark, as measured by price-to-sales (29.3% discount) and price-to-book (7.2% discount), as well as a dividend yield higher than the benchmark (16.6% premium).

Note: Percentage figures in parenthesis show total return in Australian dollars for the month ending 31 July 2019 unless otherwise noted.

Since Gross performance 1 month 3 month 6 month 1 year2 year 3 year 5 year 7 year 10 year inception Realindex Australian Share - Class A 2.28% 8.26% 18.49% 13.41%12.64% 12.41% 8.66% 12.15% 10.22% 11.64% ASX 200 Accum 2.94% 8.58% 18.66% 13.26%13.92% 11.68% 8.55% 11.74% 9.56% 10.75% Outperformance -0.66% -0.32% -0.16% 0.16%-1.28% 0.73% 0.11% 0.42% 0.66% 0.89%

Top 10 holding comparison ASX 200 as at 31 Jul 2019 Fund ASX 200 Accum Active Weight Sector Holding comparison Fund Accum Active Weight Commonwealth Bank of Australia 7.44% 8.00% -0.56% Financials 34.36% 31.62% 2.74% Westpac Banking Corporation 6.42% 5.43% 0.99% Materials 18.70% 18.54% 0.16% BHP Group, Ltd. 5.99% 6.63% -0.63% Consumer Discretionary 7.58% 6.13% 1.45% Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited 5.63% 4.46% 1.17% Industrials 7.09% 8.31% -1.23% Limited 5.57% 4.30% 1.27% Consumer Staples 6.60% 5.82% 0.78% Corporation Limited 4.69% 2.61% 2.08% Real Estate 6.38% 7.48% -1.10% Wesfarmers Limited 3.89% 2.45% 1.44% Communication Services 6.35% 3.85% 2.51% Woolworths Ltd 3.34% 2.58% 0.75% Energy 5.19% 5.19% -0.01% Ltd 2.33% 0.79% 1.54% Health Care 3.87% 8.79% -4.92% Limited 2.04% 2.03% 0.01% Utilities 3.56% 1.87% 1.68% Information Technology 0.33% 2.40% -2.07%

Top 5 relative contributors for the month Value added Top 5 relative detractors for the month Value lost Wesfarmers Limited 0.07% Fortescue Metals Group Ltd -0.18% National Australia Bank Limited 0.05% CSL Limited -0.16% Goodman Group Units Ltd 0.05% CIMIC Group Limited -0.13% Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Ltd 0.04% a2 Milk Company Ltd. -0.11% Limited 0.03% AMP Limited -0.09%

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