Ausbil Long Short Focus Fund

Ausbil Long Short Focus Fund

The Fund aims to benefit from the volatility within global financial markets by employing a long/short approach to equity markets with a focus on generating positive returns in both rising and falling markets over the long term.

Overview

The Fund utilises top down macro analysis, combined with bottom up stock analysis and a disciplined risk management process, with the aim of producing consistent and risk controlled investment returns.

The Fund aims to benefit from the volatility within global financial markets by employing a long/short approach to equity markets with a focus on generating positive returns in both rising and falling markets over the long term.

The Fund aims to achieve this by investing in high quality companies which are expected to have sustainable earnings and cash flows, and to short sell equities which have declining earnings/cashflows.
GLOBAL EQUITIES

Fund Objective

The Fund aims to provide positive investment returns over the long term. There is no guarantee that this objective will be achieved.
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Entry Price as of 26/08/2025 $1.2365
Exit Price as of 26/08/2025 $1.2291

Notice to unitholders: The unit prices published above are displayed to 4 decimal places. Your statements and all other communications will continue to be published to 6 decimal places.

Performance

Ausbil Long Short Focus Fund (Net of Fees)

As at 31 July 2025
 

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Since inception
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Fund Return % 0.59 2.40 1.97 7.28 7.32 3.04 4.13 7.42
Benchmark % 0.32 0.97 1.98 4.18 4.24 3.88 2.96 2.47
Out/under performance
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+0.27 +1.43 0.00 +3.10 +3.09 -0.84 +1.16 +4.95

Fund returns are net of fees and interest, but before taxes and assumes reinvestment of distributions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The benchmark is the Reserve Bank of Australia Cash Rate. The since inception date is the 29 September 2020.

Key Facts

Fund size as of 31/07/2025 A$29,903,212.45
Inception date 29/09/2020
Asset class Hedge
Currency AUD
Sector Alternative
Domicile Australia
APIR code AAP8211AU
Bloomberg AAP8211 AU Equity
mFund AXW14
Pricing frequency Daily
Distributions per annum Annually
Closed to new investors No

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Ausbil accepts direct investments from individuals, companies, superfunds and master trust clients. The minimum investment for all retail funds is $20,000.
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Consistent with the ASX announcement, Ausbil funds offered via the ASX’s mFund Settlement Service (mFund) will be progressively withdrawn up to 31 May 2026. Ausbil will notify mFund investors about the proposed approach for each Ausbil fund, which may include investors being transferred to Direct Investor holdings (that would require Ausbil to conduct investor identification processes) or a transition to listed Active ETFs. 

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Invest Directly With Us

Ausbil accepts direct investments from individuals, companies, superfunds and master trust clients. The minimum investment for all retail funds is $20,000.
Invest Now

Invest Via a Platform

Ausbil recommends consulting your financial adviser if you would like to invest with us via a platform. A platform offers a broad range of financial assets and products – grouping products, like managed funds, insurance, shares and superannuation into a single account.
Invest Now

Invest Via mFund

Consistent with the ASX announcement, Ausbil funds offered via the ASX’s mFund Settlement Service (mFund) will be progressively withdrawn up to 31 May 2026. Ausbil will notify mFund investors about the proposed approach for each Ausbil fund, which may include investors being transferred to Direct Investor holdings (that would require Ausbil to conduct investor identification processes) or a transition to listed Active ETFs. 

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Invest Via ASX

Register your interest to keep updated with the launch of our first active ETF. Coming soon.
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