Damen Purcell, COO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Richard Ivers, Portfolio Manager at Prime Value Asset Management.
The Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund invests in companies in the diversified emerging companies sector. Since inception in October 2015, it has returned +16.30% p.a. against the ASX200 Accumulation Index's annualised return over the same period of +11.05%. The Fund has demonstrated superior performance in falling and volatile markets, with a Sortino ratio (since inception) of 1.45 vs the Index's 0.89, and a down-capture ratio (since inception) of 46%. Over the most recent 12 months, the Fund has risen +42.01% vs the Index's +27.80%, and has achieved a down-capture ratio of -4.64%.