Emanuel Datt
Datt Capital’s Absolute Return Fund has been added to the Netwealth investment management platform, providing wider access to the award-winning strategy. Financial advisers and wholesale investors can now access this strategy via Netwealth.
Netwealth has been rated as number one platform in ‘Overall Satisfaction’ by users for the ninth consecutive year and rated number one for ‘Value for Money’ by Investment Trends.
The Datt Capital Absolute Return Fund is a long-only fund targeting double-digit returns over the medium term, with a mix of investments in Australian equities, fixed income, debt instruments and derivatives.
Since its inception, in August 2018, the Fund has achieved a net compound return of 16.08% per annum.
The Fund is unconstrained, being benchmark, sector and style agnostic. Part of Datt Capital’s approach is to be opportunistic.
This is reflected in the Fund’s current large exposure to coal miners Whitehaven Coal and Yancoal, which were trading on low multiples, despite rising coal prices, because of the ESG concerns of many investors.
Datt Capital chief investment officer Emanuel Datt says inflation is here to stay for now and the higher interest rate environment creates opportunities for active managers.
He adds: “We are exceptionally well positioned should contagion from the US banking industry cause equity markets to melt down. We have identified a range of high-quality companies that we expect will benefit from the present economic environment, which may become cheaper in the short-term providing opportunity for disciplined investors.”
In February, leading alternative investments researcher and data provider, BarclayHedge, ranked the Datt Capital Absolute Return Fund the top performing Australian long-only fund.