Aura High Yield SME Fund receives a Recommended rating from Atchison Consultants

The Aura High Yield SME Fund has received a Recommended rating from Atchison Consultants.

Atchison Consultants recommended rating definition is as follows:

"The manager’s product has consistently outperformed the median manager across our assessment criteria. We expect the manager to perform ahead of a reasonably appropriate risk and return objective for the product over a full investment cycle."

The Fund now holds ratings from three independence agencies; Australia Ratings, Evergreen Ratings and Atchison Consultants, all of which awarded the fund their second highest rating. We are pleased with the broad and consistent endorsement of the fund from independent agencies.

Since it’s August 2017 inception, the Aura High Yield SME Fund has delivered 44 monthly distributions, all outperforming its benchmark, with zero impairment on income or capital. As at 31 March 2021 the fund has:

• Returned 42.08% on a distribution reinvestment basis;

• An internal rate of return of 10.13% on a distribution reinvestment basis;

• An annualised standard deviation 0.93%;

• Never seen it’s Net Asset Value deviate from $1;

• Met every redemption request within the mandated time-frame; and

• Was recognised as the third top performing credit strategy fund by Preqin during the first half of CY 2020, a time period of Australia’s largest quarter on quarter contraction in GDP on record.

Important information

This information is for accredited, qualified, institutional, wholesale or sophisticated investors only and is provided by Aura Funds Management Pty Ltd (ABN 96 607 158 814, Authorised Representative No. 1233893 of Aura Capital Pty Ltd AFSL No. 366 230, ABN 48 143 700 887). Aura Funds Management Pty Ltd is the Trustee of all the Funds mentioned and a subsidiary of Aura Group Pty Ltd. 

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