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Andrew McCafferyAberdeen Asset Management
Absolute return investing, looking to achieve higher quality risk adjusted returns
International Investment Italian Forum 2007
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Cumulative and yearly asset flows
Overall asset inflows
• The hedge fund industry has experienced record inflows in 2006, and even higher to new records n 2007
• Asset inflows into all strategies totaled $126bn in 2006, compared to $47bn in 2005 and $74bn in 2004. Database provider totals range from $2.1trn - $2.5trn now
• Industry has experienced 25% YoY growth since 1990
• However still small when compared with global asset values – Est $160trn worldwide, so less than 2% of assets
Source: Hedge Fund Research, OECD
The hedge fund industry has experienced high levels of asset inflows in recent years
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From 90%+ in Global Macro only in 1990
Estimated HF strategy decomposition
Source: HFR
Sector 5.1%
Equity non-hedge 4.2%
Equity market neutral 2.5%
Equity hedge 28.8%Equity 40.6%
Fixed income relative value 2.9%
MBS 2.1%
High yield 0.9%
Diversified 1.2%
Convertible bonds 0.1%
Relative value arbitrage 13.3%
Merger arbitrage 1.6%
Convertible arbitrage 3.2%
Fixed income 7.2%
Arbitrage 21.0%Regulation D 0.2%Short selling 0.3%Market timing 0.4%
Event driven 13.6%
Distressed securities 4.4%
Emerging markets 4.4%
Macro 11.0%
Growing diversity, growing opportunity
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Simple perspectives on ‘Absolute Return’
• Absolute Return – A style of investing that seeks to preserve capital and produce superior risk adjusted returns
- Lowly or non correlated performance to traditional asset classes
- Minimise downside losses through active, specialised investment and risk management
• The Absolute Return approach combines traditional fund manager’s skills of exploiting market opportunities with the trader’s skill in managing total risk to produce a positive asymmetric return profile
• Can be viewed as a portfolio where you use ‘cash’, or the ‘risk free rate’, as the ‘benchmark’ and the manager is actively seeking to hedge out the downside risks
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What are ‘Absolute Return strategies’?
• Portfolios are not artificially constrained, ensuring access to the most attractive asset classes and financial instruments types in all market conditions
• Utilises:
- Leverage – To enhance returns in high confidence trades
- Short sales – To take advantage of downside movement in markets and individual securities
- Combining leverage and short selling allows one to manage/reduce risk within a portfolio, eg
• As a fundamental view driven trade, eg sell an equal risk amount of BP (equity or credit risk) vs a long position in an Exxon Mobil security
• By allowing offsetting exposures to be created, eg sell a CDS vs convertible bond credit risk
• Skilfully combined together, within a strong risk management framework, it provides the opportunity to improve the quality of returns and utilise risk more cost effectively
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Perspectives on portfolio risk
Relative-return model (market-based)
Absolute-return model (skill-based)
Return objective Relative to an asset benchmark Absolute, positive return
This means: Capture asset class premium Identify and exploit investment opportunities
Risk management Tracking error to benchmark Total risk of positions, ‘tail risk’ management
This means: Capture asset class premium Preserve capital
Source: Original – UBS AS/AAM
Symmetrical return profile
Asymmetrical return profile
Measure value of portfolio at risk, assess how different stress scenarios can impact and then actively manage the profile
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Hedge fund assets still small, ‘alpha’ to remain plentiful for the skilled…
Sources: OECD/IMF/IFSL/ICI/HFR/Morgan Stanley, Q2 07
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CDS now in excess of $45trn, Equity at $10trn+, with IR/FX OTC above $350trn*
Growth of OTC credit and equity derivative markets – Innovation accelerates and liquidity grows…
* End H1 07Source: ISDA Market Dealers Survey data
Corporate bonds o/s 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 3.8 4.2 5.0 5.0 4.8 5.1
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Hedge funds: Low correlation, enhancing diversification benefits
Since Jan 93 WGBI WORLD FIXED INC ARB EMERG MARKETS
MSCI WORLD CONV ARBITRAGE
EQUITY MKT NTRL
LONG/ SHORT EQTY
GLOBAL MACRO
Annualised rate of return 5.52% 6.11% 7.10% 7.70% 8.43% 9.45% 10.66% 12.01%
Standard deviation 6.34% 3.77% 16.81% 13.77% 4.67% 2.85% 9.93% 10.67%
Information ratio* 0.87 1.62 0.42 0.56 1.80 3.32 1.07 1.13
CONV ARBITRAGE
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EMERG MARKETS 0.34 1
EQUITY MKT NTRL 0.34 0.23 1
FIXED INC ARB 0.54 0.28 0.11 1
GLOBAL MACRO 0.31 0.40 0.20 0.48 1
LONG/SHORT EQTY 0.29 0.62 0.34 0.21 0.42 1
MSCI WORLD 0.14 0.56 0.34 0.05 0.19 0.64 1
WGBI WORLD -0.08 -0.16 0.10 -0.08 -0.12 0.06 0.07 1
* Information ratio defined as the excess returns over the benchmark divided by the volatility of the portfolio return, ie the return per unit of riskSource: CSFB/Tremont
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Rolling 12 month correlations*
Correlation movement
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Outperforming in bad years, and good years…
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2006HFRI Emerging Markets 24.29S&P MIB 20.02HFRI Equity Market Neutral Index 17.56HFRI Merger Arbitrage Index 15.67HFRI Event-Driven Index 15.30MSCI World 13.51HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index 12.85HFRI Relative Value Arbitrage Index 12.38HFRI Convertible Arbitrage Index 12.17S&P500 12.09HFRI Equity Hedge Index 11.68HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index 10.35HFRI Fixed Income 8.87HFRI Macro Index 8.54Lehman Bond Agg 4.33
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Hedge funds perform well in positive and negative markets
Hedge funds: A longer term performance perspective
Source: CSFB/Tremont indices data
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High quality of downside risk management pays dividends over time
Value of the preserving capital principle
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Performance statistics
* One zero return monthSource: HFRI, CS Tremont 1 Jan 96 – 30 Sep 07, monthly return data
Equity/bond and hedge fund indices
WGBI/MSCI World 50/50 weighting HFRI fund of funds CS Tremont Multi-Strategy
Return statistics
Annual average compound return 6.19% 8.14% 10.01%
Positive months 89 95 121
Negative months 51 45 19
Best month 18.99% 6.85% 3.12%
Worst month -16.68% 7.47% -4.76%
Maximum 12 months rolling 24.46% 29.14% 19.03%
Minimum 12 months rolling -10.68% -9.18% 2.07%
Maximum drawdown -20.25% -14.02% -4.88%
Total return since inception 72.21% 158.34% 221.60%
Annualised standard deviation
Since inception 11.06% 5.81% 3.63%
Last 12 months 3.37% 4.04% 3.81%
Risk ratios
Sharpe ratio 0.19 0.66 1.51
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To summarise
• Absolute Return investing involves unconstrained and continually evolving strategies to capture market opportunities, both for the short term and the long term
• Absolute Return investing can deliver a diversifying return profile to underlying asset markets and high quality compounded returns through the active management to limit draw-downs
• Absolute Return investing benefits from a growing, and constantly innovating financial market, with access to the broadest range of trading and investment ideas available
• The quality of managing risk around trade and portfolio investments provides the opportunity for significantly higher quality risk adjusted returns versus outright exposure in asset markets in the medium to longer term
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For professional use onlyNot for public distribution
• Investors should be aware that past performance is not a guide to future returns, the price of shares and the income from them can fall as well as arise and investors may not get back the amount that they invested initially
• The views expressed in this presentation should not be construed as advice on how to construct a portfolio or whether to buy, retain or sell a particular investment. The information contained in the presentation is for exclusive use by intermediate customers/market counterparties and not the general public. The information is being given only to those persons who have received this document directly from Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) and must not be acted or relied upon by persons receiving a copy of this document other than directly from AAM. No part of this document may be copied or duplicated in any form or by any means or redistributed without the written consent of AAM