Risk Managed Funds – quarterly update

Hector Kilpatrick, Chief Investment Officer27th January 2016

for professional advisers only

Welcome

The objectives of this session are to explain:

• why we see echoes of 2007 & Q1 2008 in the markets

• why we are becoming less bullish on Japanese equities

• why a US ‘goldilocks’ economy is essential to support market levels

US Manufacturing & Services ISM

Services ISM in Green

Source: ISM, BloombergTime (1999 => 2015)

US Manufacturing ISM & recessions

ISM <45…… 13x since WW2, 11x recession

US manufacturing and trade inventories/sales

Time (2006 => 2015)Source: Bloomberg, US Census Bureau

US credit cycle – lending to corporates

Time (2001 => 2015)Source: Bloomberg, Fed. Reserve

Barclays US High Yield spread index

Time (2006 => 2016)Source: Bloomberg, Barclays

UK saving rate

Time (1980 => 2015)Source: Bloomberg, ONS

UK Halifax Residential Prices (all dwellings, NSA)

Time (1996 => 2015)Source: Bloomberg, Lloyds

Japanese Yen vs USD

Time (2006 => 2016)Source: Bloomberg

10 year Japanese Gov. debt yield (%)

Time (2006 => 2016)Source: Bloomberg

BoJ’s holdings in Japanese equity ETFs

US Bank sector rel performance vs S&P500

Time (2014 => 2015)Source: Bloomberg, KBW

Portfolio positioning

Heavy: Light:Absolute return Equities

Strategic bond Gilts

Cash Property

Source: Cornelian

Risk Managed Funds

* The Managed Income Fund has not been rated by Distribution Technology but is managed by Cornelian to sit below upper limit of DT5. Managed Income Fund was launched on 20th March 2015 and it has not yet been included into the Defaqto Risk Targeted Fund Family. ** The investment team constructs the portfolio to ensure that the expected volatility of each fund stays below the maximum expected volatility level ascribed, in normal circumstances.*** Net of fees, over the investment cycle.

Source: Cornelian, DT, Defaqto

Performance to end December 2015

Risk Warning

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