KIDS10 Attribution Report 201908 (1 Month).Xlsx

Realindex Australian Small Companies - Class A (Gross of Fees) Flyer

31 Aug 2019

Fund strategy Fund facts Realindex forms a universe of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange that are Benchmark ASX Small Ords Accum outside both the ASX 100 and the 100 largest companies based on accounting measures. Factors Funds under management $1160.6 million such as quality, near-term value and momentum are applied to form a final portfolio of companies. Inception Date 17 November 2008 The resulting portfolio has a value tilt 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 Small Companies Fund returned -1.70% (gross of fees) during August, outperforming the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries benchmark which returned -3.85%.

August was earnings season in the Australian market with the majority of small companies reporting their annual results. Typically the abundance of company specific news at this time leads to returns being driven by stock selection rather than style and/or sector allocations. This was also the case last month, however the additional backdrop of global uncertainty and the sell-off that ensued also resulted in some contribution from sector allocations.

Stock selection within Consumer Discretionary was surprisingly the largest contributor to performance. This mainly came from overweights to specialty retailers including Baby Bunting (+26.8%), Kathmandu (+17.4%) and Super Retail Group (+7.0%); each of these companies showing that despite the depressed state of the Australian retail sector as a whole, there does exist investment opportunities in differentiated businesses. A larger overweight to car retailer A.P. Eagers (+10.4%) was also a large contributor after its merger with Automotive Holdings (+8.7%, not held by the portfolio but a small weight in the benchmark) received regulatory approval and neared completion.

Information Technology also added value, although this was largely driven by the portfolio’s position in WiseTech (+15.6%), the largest overall stock level contributor. The stock was promoted to the S&P/ASX 100 Index on the 6th August as a takeover replacement and the portfolio then benefitted from the 37% return the stock delivered in the remainder of the month. The portfolio benefitted from an underweight early in the month during the global sell-off, particularly in IT names.

The largest stock level contributor came from a large overweight to ERM Power (+34.4%) which was the reciepient of a takeover offer during the month. The portfolio also benefitted from not holding stocks that are in the benchmark but are classified as large companies under the strategy’s methodology. This included Mineral Resources (-17.7%), Viva Energy (-18.1%) and IOOF (-13.0%). As these have large index weights, their contribution more than offset the detraction from other ‘large companies’ – Healius (+10.7%), Spark NZ (+8.7%) and Sims Metal (+5.3%).

The only significant sector-level detractor came from stock selection within Healthcare. Underweights to companies such as Nanosonics (+21.1%), Polynovo (+26.9%) and Pro Medicus (+19.7%) detracted heavily from performance after reporting strong results.

The portfolio offers a valuation discount to the market-cap benchmark, as measured by price-to-sales (20.1% discount) and price-to-book (9.5% discount), as well as a dividend yield higher than the benchmark (22.6% premium).

Note: Percentage figures in parenthesis show total return in Australian dollars for the month ending 31 August 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 Small Companies - Class A -1.70% 3.79% 6.95% 5.97%10.99% 9.19% 10.94% 13.14% 9.68% 12.95% ASX Small Ords Accum -3.85% 1.41% 4.14% 0.95%11.12% 8.41% 7.82% 7.24% 4.79% 7.85% Outperformance 2.15% 2.38% 2.81% 5.02%-0.13% 0.78% 3.12% 5.90% 4.89% 5.09%

Top 10 holding comparison ASX Small Ords ASX Small as at 31 Aug 2019 Fund Accum Active Weight Sector Holding comparison Fund Ords Accum Active Weight A.P. Eagers Limited 2.59% 0.00% 2.59% Consumer Discretionary 18.56% 14.62% 3.94% Super Retail Group Limited 1.99% 0.70% 1.28% Materials 17.38% 20.94% -3.56% ERM Power Limited 1.64% 0.25% 1.39% Real Estate 16.99% 13.14% 3.85% NIB Holdings Ltd 1.64% 1.84% -0.20% Communication Services 8.92% 5.35% 3.56% Chorus Limited 1.52% 0.61% 0.92% Financials 8.58% 10.96% -2.38% SKYCITY Entertainment Group Limited 1.45% 0.58% 0.87% Industrials 7.44% 8.23% -0.80% Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd 1.44% 0.29% 1.16% Consumer Staples 6.04% 7.31% -1.28% Cromwell Property Group 1.42% 1.27% 0.16% Health Care 5.98% 7.76% -1.78% Beach Energy Limited 1.42% 0.00% 1.42% Information Technology 4.78% 7.92% -3.14% Growthpoint Properties Australia 1.40% 0.67% 0.72% Energy 2.96% 3.20% -0.24% Utilities 2.38% 0.57% 1.81%

Top 5 relative contributors for the month Value added Top 5 relative detractors for the month Value lost ERM Power Limited 0.39% Nanosonics Limited -0.19% A.P. Eagers Limited 0.33% Polynovo Limited -0.17% Wisetech Global Ltd. 0.27% Pro Medicus Limited -0.16% Beach Energy Limited 0.23% IPH Ltd. -0.13% Viva Energy Group 0.20% OceanaGold Corp Shs Chess Depository Interests repr 1 shs -0.12%

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