The Munro Global Growth Fund has won the best Long Short Equity Fund category at the 2020 Hedge Funds Rock Awards.
The Hedge Funds Rock + Australian Alternative Investment Awards were established in 2005 to recognise and honours the industry’s top performers. Finalists are decided based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative factors agreed by a panel of judges.
Munro Partners is a global investment manager with a core focus on growth equities. The Munro Global Growth Fund aims to provide investors with meaningful, risk-adjusted, absolute returns through exposure to global growth equities over the medium to long term, while maintaining a capital preservation mindset.
Munro Partners founding partner and chief investment officer, Nick Griffin, noted that the Fund had returned 17.5 per cent annualised since inception, and returned 36.8 per cent over the past year to 31 August 2020.
“The award win is recognition of the team’s success in identifying growth and key structural changes in the market. The ability to use our capital preservation tools such as cash, shorting and put options, assisted our clients’ returns, especially in the March quarter.
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