The Smarter Money Long-Short Credit Fund is an absolute return fixed-income strategy focused on exploiting long and short mispricings in credit markets. You can download the product information sheet here.

The Fund targets returns above the "neutral" Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate plus 4% to 6% p.a. over rolling 3 year periods after Management Fees, Administration Fees and Performance Fees. The Fund targets volatility of less than 5% p.a..

The Fund invests primarily in senior and subordinated debt securities, hybrids and derivatives issued by Australian entities domestically and overseas, although it can also invest in these types of securities when they are issued by overseas entities (into the Australian market or offshore). The Fund targets holding the majority of its portfolio in investment-grade quality debt securities and hybrids.

The Fund aims to generate high absolute returns that have low to no correlation with equities, fixed-rate bonds and property markets, from relatively low risk and liquid investments identified through the Portfolio Manager’s active asset-selection process that has been proven over the last 6 years via the SMAC and SMHI strategies. The Fund aims to reliably distribute strong quarterly income.

The manager seeks to generate these returns by taking a “long” or “short” position in relation to assets which it considers are trading below or above fair value. The goal is to generate significant risk-adjusted returns, or “alpha”. The ability to go long or short, either directly or through using derivatives, means the Fund can profit from price rises and price falls. Going long or short can also result in the Fund being leveraged.