L1 Capital Long Short Fund
Australia’s best performing long short fund (since inception in 2014)^
(since inception in 2014)^
An absolute return fund that offers investors a highly diversified portfolio of long and short positions based on rigorous, fundamental research process
Fund managers
Raphael Lamm
Joint Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer View bio
Mark Landau
Joint Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer View bioStrategy overview
• Range 1-5%
• Typical size 3%
• Exceptional risk/reward >5%
Short
• Range 1-3%
• Typical size 2%
• Exceptional risk/reward >3%
ACN 125 378 145
AFSL 314 302
Competitive advantages
The L1 Capital Long Short Strategy has three enduring advantages:
- Market exposure: Ability and willingness to adjust the portfolio net long to reflect the risk/reward of the market.
- Shorting: Portfolio is able to profit from falling share prices (as well as rising).
- International exposure: Able to exploit research insights offshore, not just domestically, broadening the opportunity set beyond the Australian market.
Together, these three levers, which the Investment Team uses actively and with conviction, are tools for generating returns from all of the team’s investment and market insights.
The L1 Capital Long Short Fund’s competitive edge comes from:
- L1’s investment process that combines valuation with qualitative considerations to identify attractive investment opportunities. The approach’s strict valuation criteria tends to produce a slight value and contrarian bias. At the core of the bottom-up, fundamental, research-driven approach is the team conducting several thousand company meetings each year.
- Extensive network of contacts throughout corporate Australia and overseas that provides a more complete and up-to-date perspective on industry trends, inflection points, risks, etc. Many fund managers purely meet with company management and sell-side analysts, which the Australian Equities team believe provides a biased and narrow perspective on a company/industry.
- Contrarian approach which has generated alpha from buying cyclical stocks at a low point in their cycle (and shorting at a high point) and overcoming behavioural biases that tend to promote momentum investing.
Strategy performance
Net performance as at **DATE** for L1 Capital Long Short Fund – Monthly Class, inception date 1 September 2014. Past performance should not be taken as an indicator of future performance.
Strategy insights
How to Invest
There are currently four ways to invest in the L1 Capital Long Short Fund
L1 Long Short Fund Limited (ASX:LSF)
Listed Investment Company (LIC) listed on the ASXL1 Capital Long Short Fund - Daily Class
Unlisted Managed Fund with daily liquidityL1 Capital Long Short Fund - Monthly Class
Unlisted Managed Fund with monthly liquidityL1 Capital Long Short (Offshore Feeder) Fund
Cayman Master Feeder Fund denominated in USDYou can also contact us for further assistance.
^ Ranking amongst funds in Zenith Australian Shares – Long Short sector using FE Analytics data as at 30 November 2024. Past performance should not be taken as an indicator of future performance.
* Net performance as at **DATE** for L1 Capital Long Short Fund – Monthly Class, inception date 1 September 2014. Past performance should not be taken as an indicator of future performance.
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