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Unifi High Yield Fund
Preface
Investor Predicament
Conventional Equity
•High / above averagereturn potential
•Accompanied by extremevolatility
Conventional Debt
•Low / below averagevolatility
•Hardly any real returnspost tax and inflation
Cyclicality of asset values combined with misconstructed risk-return expectations push investors to either
• settle for sub-par returns (or)
• bear volatility beyond one’s temperament leading to capital loss
Unifi HYF Proposition
High Yield Fund
•Endeavour to generate netpost tax returns of 3% p.aover the rate of inflation(CPI)
•Minimal / below averagevolatility
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Risk adjusted arbitrage andfixed income opportunitiesarising from
• corporate events
• macro-economic cycles
• emerging credit
Overview
Investment Objective
Unifi High Yield Fund (HYF) is a discretionary fund focusing on event arbitrage and fixed incomeinvestment opportunities in capital markets with an endeavor to generate net post tax returns of 3% p.aover the rate of inflation (CPI). The objective is to consistently generate superior compounded annualreturns than conventional fixed income instruments with uncompromising emphasis on capitalpreservation.
Unifi Capital Pvt. Ltd.Fund Manager
Min Investment INR 1 crore
Performance Reporting
Monthly NAV & Quarterly Review
Independent Custodian & Accountant
IL&FS Securities Services Ltd
Lock in periodExit load of 2% if redeemedwithin 6 months.
TenureOpen ended; Monthly subscription andredemption
Fees1% per annum fixed and 20% performanceover hurdle rate (Monthly Chargeable)
Valuation S&P CRISIL
Launch Date 04-Apr-2013.
AUM (INR Crs) INR 588 crores
Hurdle RateNon cumulative pre tax return of 10% perannum
Setup Fees None
Investment Allocation
Strategies InstrumentsIndicative Allocation
Avg Allocation FY 2019
Avg Allocation FY 2018
Avg Allocation FY 2017
Event Arbitrage
Arbitrage opportunities in ListedEquities arising from open offers,delisting, mergers & de-mergers,IPOs, Cash-Futures
0 – 100% 11% 21% 26.2%
Nominal Bonds Conventional AAA & AA bonds ofvarious Indian Companies –Typically HTM
0 – 50% 22% 26% 23%
Structured & High yieldDebt
Structured Secured CorporateDebt, Commercial Papers, shortterm bonds and tax efficientPreference Shares of NBFCsfocusing on Housing, SME , CV,Agri and Micro Finance.
0 – 75% 65% 46% 46.3%
Directional CallsEquity, G-Secs and AAA debt(duration calls)
0 – 10% 2.2% 1% 1.8%
Cash / LiquidFor liquidity purposes/ temporaryparking of funds.
-0.3% 6% 2.7%
Performance Comparison
Our UNIFI High Yield fund returns have been significantly better than comparable debtmutual funds – both credit and dynamic bond funds not only in Financial Year 2019 but also inall earlier years since our inception.
Fund / Returns FY2019 FY2018 FY2017 FY2016 FY2015 FY2014
Unifi High Yield Fund 10.75% 14.47% 13.70% 14.67% 16.82% 14.40%
Debt MFs - Dynamic Bond Category Average 6.49% 4.69% 12.13% 6.55% 10.54% 5.86%
(Duration MFs)- Dyn. Bond Category Topper 8.83% 7.98% 14.40% 8.07% 15.13% 10.36%
Debt MFs - Corporate Bonds Category Average 6.06% 7.70% 10.65% 8.99% 9.28% 8.41%
(Credit Funds)- Corp. Bonds Category Topper 8.51% 9.43% 11.50% 10.02% 11.87% 11.12%
The graph hereunder shows the returns earned by Unifi HYF compared with a line that representsour target i.e. Inflation + real returns of 3% post tax
Performance Comparison
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HYF Monthly Post Tax Returns (In %) HYF Post Tax Returns Inflation + 3% Inflation
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Investment Strategy
• The focus is on opportunities in the AA to Investment Grade segment to optimize aftertax yields while balancing risks.
• Typically, all debt investments are made with Hold to Maturity (HTM) mind set butsome of it could be traded opportunistically to maximize capital appreciation orminimize risk. .
Fixed Income opportunities – Nominal & High Yield Debt
• Emerge from corporate events like mergers, acquisition, buybacks, regulation triggered/ voluntary open offers made to the public by controlling shareholders, companydelisting, declaration of special dividends etc. .
• The risk- return pay-off in most of such deals is deal-specific and has limitedcorrelation to market cycles.
Event Arbitrage opportunities
Debt Investments – Approach and Strategy
Investment Strategy - The focus would be on opportunities in the AA to Investment Grade
segment to optimize after tax yields while balancing risks. Typically, all debt investments are
made with Hold to Maturity (HTM) mindset but some of it could be traded opportunistically to
maximize capital appreciation or minimize risk. Arbitrage opportunities emerging from the
following possibilities will be actively pursued to enhance the overall portfolio yields.
Wholesale to Retail – Bulk Buying from Bank
Treasuries / Primary Issuances at finer rates and
selling in smaller lots with a mark-up to HNIs /
Private Provident Fund Treasuries.
Aggregator of Retail Lots – Provide the much
needed liquidity channel for retail bond
holders at market yields plus spread.
Subsidiary – Holding Company – Focus on 100%
Subsidiaries whose papers are rated lower than their
highly rated Parent companies but offer an higher
yield.
Tactical Calls - Consider macro-economy
driven opportunities like softening of Yield
Curve (duration play) due to fall in Interest
Rates and conducive Rating Upgrades cycle
resulting in capital gains.
Debt Investments – Approach and Strategy
Case Study – (SME Finance) – Capital Float
We invested in a 13.85% interest yielding medium term (2 years) Non-convertible debentures of Bengalurubased Capital Float, an NBFC pursuing SME finance business with the support of fintech. Its current net-worth isabout Rs.460 crs and its present AUM is about Rs.617 crs.
Run by professional and experienced Management (Ex- Bajaj Finance, Ex-Deutsche Bank) 50+% of the company owned by credible PE and Foreign Institutions – Sequioa, SAIF, Creations Diversified lender base – 9 Banks & NBFCs – successful raising of long term debt Well capitalized NBFC tapping the SME market with innovative products like Cash advances against POSbills, Taxi loans , etc., Comfortable Asset Liability Profile with huge surplusThe NCDs were issued to the company to enable it to expand its AUM and leverage its balance sheet. We had puta covenant to limit the leverage at 3x of equity. Subsequent to the NCD issue in Dec 2016, the management wasable to expand its AUM and attracted further equity of Rs 293 Cr in Aug 2017.
Rs. in Crore Favourable Asset Liability Profile at the time of Investment - Dec 2016
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Total Assets (a)119.84 21.55 13.88 103.26 58.05 23.58 4.99 345.15
Total Liabilities (b)37.70 5.44 7.47 47.87 30.96 0.00 215.71 345.15
Mismatch (a-b)82.14 16.11 6.41 55.39 27.09 23.58 (210.72) -
Cumulative Mismatch82.14 98.25 104.66 160.05 187.14 210.72 0
Debt Investments – Approach and Strategy
Structured Papers from Emerging Financial Sectors- Consider high yield opportunities arising from
well-capitalized and professionally managed Alternative NBFCs focusing on
The following criteria is firmly applied for selection of investment opportunities in this segment -
Fundamentally sound and profitable business model
Management with proven track record
Robust process for credit evaluation, security creation, operations control and collections
Presence of seasoned Private Equity investors in the board
Recent round of promoter / private equity infusion strengthening the capital adequacy
Short Term Maturity and being in the top quadrant of the Company’s Liability
Repayment profile thereby placing our exposure in a positive Asset Liability bucket.
Affordable HousingSME Financing
backed by MortgagesCommercial Vehicles
FinancingMicro Financing
Event Arbitrage
In a typical open offer, theprice movement during theperiod between publicannouncement and the offerclosure is largely insulatedfrom market volatility anddelivers a debt like absolutereturn.
Particulars FY19 FY18 FY17 FY16 FY15 FY14 FY13
Total no. of offers
26 45 51 73 60 60 74
No. of offers participated
2 1 2 7 9 12 16
Average offer size (in crs)
1071 70 186 161 287 3941 523
Largest Offer invested (in crs)
923 0.91 415 1621 11449 29200 5222
Smallest Offer invested (in crs)
329 0.91 115 26 251 30 40
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PA Date: 14 Jul 2015Purchase Date: 25 Aug 2015Purchase Date: 185Offer Price: 195
Payment Date: 8th Dec 2015Acceptance: 100%Return: 5.40%Annualized Returns: 18.79%
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Merger Arbitrage
Case Study – (HCL – Geometric Merger)
HCL-Geometric merger was announced in Apr 2016 wherein for every 43 shares of Geometric, itsshareholder would get 10 shares of HCL Tech and 43 preference shares of 3DL PLM (7% redeemable)with a face value of Rs.68 each. We started tracking the spreads and entered into the trade in April 2016where we reckoned that we could make 14% per annum. We bought shares of Geometric and sold HCLTech in the futures market. HCL Tech being a highly liquid F&O scrip enabled us to hedge ourGeometric exposure completely and lock-in the desired spreads. All the deal related approvals wereobtained by Jan 2017 and the spreads had also narrowed to 8% p.a by then. As we had realized theintended holding period return of 14% p.a, we exited the trade during February month just before therecord date for share swap and moved into another opportunity with better yield. . Below is the timelineof approvals and respective spreads.
Event DateAnnualized
return
Merger Announcement date 1-Apr-16 25.22%
Unifi Entered the trade 4-Apr-16 14.97%
NOC approval from exchange 8-Jun-16 13.61%
CCI Approval 21-Aug-16 14.10%
Shareholders approval 4-Oct-16 16.50%
High Court Approval 14-Dec-16 11.55%
Copy of High court approval submitted to exchange 18-Jan-17 12.05%Unifi Exit prior to record date of 15-03-17 28-Feb-17 7.83%
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Ratings Migration
Financial Year Name of the CompanyUpgrade /
DowngradeFrom To
FY 2019 Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited Upgrade BBB+ A-
FY 2019 Esskay Fincorp Upgrade A A+
FY 2019 Five Star Business Finance Upgrade A- A
FY 2019 Suryoday Small Finance Bank Limited Upgrade A- A
FY 2018 Cholamandalam Finance Upgrade AA AA+
FY 2017 Zee Entertainment Preference Shares Upgrade AA+ AAA
FY 2017 IDBI Downgrade AA- BBB
FY 2017 Aspire Home Finance Upgrade A+ AA-
FY 2017 Equitas Small Finance Bank Upgrade A A+
FY 2017 Grama Vidiyal (due to Merger with IDFC Bank) Upgrade BBB AAA
FY 2016 IKF Finance Upgrade A- A
FY 2016 Five Star Business Fin Ltd Upgrade BBB- BBB
FY 2016 Utkarsh Micro Finance Upgrade BBB BBB+
FY 2015 Satin Credit Care Upgrade BBB BBB+
FY 2015 IFMR Capital Upgrade A- A+
FY 2015 Vistaar Financial Services Upgrade A3 A2
• Total Upgrades – 15, Total Downgrades – 1 , Defaults – 0• Since inception of the fund, there has been only one rating downgrade - IDBI perpetual bonds from AA- to BBB• Three of the investee companies have been awarded Small Finance Bank Licences (Suryoday micro finance, Equitas Holdings, Ujjivan Micro finance)
Latest Holdings – Key Attributes
Average Exposure
Fixed Income (Debt) 89.5%
Event Arbitrage 3.5%
Directional Calls 1.5%
Cash / (Leverage) 5.5%
Debt Quants as on May 2019
Weighted Average Maturity 1.76 Yrs
Carry Yield 12.42%
Ratings Exposure
AAA & AA 12%
A 43%
BBB 29%
Structured & Unrated 5.5%
Total 89.5%
Liquidity Profile of the Portfolio
Less than 1 week 13.36 %
Between 1 week & 1 month 7.07 %
Between 1 month & 3 months 5.78 %
Greater than 3 months 73.79 %
Total 100.00 %
Key Attributes as of May 2019
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UNIFI AIF
Birla Sh. Term Opp. Fund
Fran Temp Corp. Bond
BSL Dynamic Bond Fund(G)
Reliance Dynamic Bond(G)
UNIFI AIF vs Debt Fund’s
AIF Performance
Monthly Performance in (%)
Year Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Annual
FY14 0.92% 1.56% -0.70% 1.60% 1.02% 0.87% 1.18% 1.07% 2.84% 0.79% 2.20% 0.95% 14.40%
FY15 1.15% 1.43% 1.22% 1.44% 1.13% 1.20% 1.14% 1.36% 1.48% 1.28% 1.38% 1.83% 16.82%
FY16 0.92% 1.14% 0.75% 1.58% 1.26% 0.87% 1.24% 0.82% 1.31% 1.12% 0.59% 2.51% 14.67%
FY17 1.00% 1.14% 0.83% 1.24% 1.10% 1.38% 0.79% 1.28% 0.77% 0.90% 0.80% 1.97% 13.70%
FY18 1.60% 0.32% 1.00% 1.15% 1.42% 2.25% 0.90% 1.40% 0..80% 0.63% 0.81% 1.60% 14.47%
FY19 0.65% 0.31% 0.41% 0.84% 0.92% 0.22% 0.64% 0.71% 1.02% 0.84% 0.85% 3.01% 10.75%
FY20 0.49% 1.15% 1.64%
Returns
UNIFI AIFBirla Sh. Opp.
Fund(G)Fran. Corp.
Bond fund(G)
BSL Dynamic Bond
Fund(G)
Reliance Dynamic Bond(G)
Average Monthly Return 1.13% 0.75% 0.78% 0.69% 0.70%
CAGR 14.25% 9.34% 9.78% 8.51% 8.58%
Cumulative Returns 129.33% 73.45% 77.78% 65.51% 66.15%
Largest Monthly Gain 3.01% 2.34% 3.06% 4.85% 4.28%
Largest Monthly Loss -0.70% -1.17% -2.10% -3.63% -3.81%
% of positive Months 98.65% 93.24% 90.54% 75.68% 72.97%
Risk
Standard Deviation (Annualised) 1.95% 2.05% 2.24% 4.47% 4.71%
Investment Allocation & Returns Attribution
Returns AttributionInvestment Allocation
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Investment Process
Idea Origination
Opportunity validation, review and evaluation of risk / return scenarios
Investment Committee Review
Initiation of Investment
Unifi Capital (P) Ltd –Fund Manager to the Trust
Post Investment Monitoring and Risk Management
CIO, Head-Research and Head-Relationship
AIF Trustees
Internal Review
Statutory Auditors
Portfolio Parameters
Pre-trade
Ongoing Surveillance
Post-tradeFirm Infrastructure
In-depth bottom-up review of all investment
opportunities by documented and well
seasoned evaluation process
Sensible Exposure Limits:
- Theme Specific
- Company Specific (not more than 10%)
‘Marketable Liquidity’ Assessment
Rigorous due-diligence on structure and
security w.r.t debt investment opportunities
Maximum Leverage limit including
derivative exposures capped at 1.5 times the
fund corpus
Daily Mark-to-Market assessment including
detailed review of extreme movements
Real-time monitoring of economic developments,
corporate communications to stock exchanges and
methodical tracking of economy and company
specific developments
Periodical meeting / calls with management of all
the investment companies to measure progress,
review results and revalidate assumptions
Opportunistic hedging/tactical trading to respond
to short-term, counter-theme market moves
Best-in-class IT infrastructure with
back-up
Documented Process Flow
Reputed Trustees, Custodian, Valuer
etc
Research Access to premium
databases capturing economic, sector
and company specific trends
Periodical Internal Review and
Statutory Audit
Risk Management Framework
• Avoid becoming too large too soon
We periodically close the fund to new subscriptions so that we have adequate time to“cherry-pick” our investments and maintain a healthy funnel of investible ideas. Thisstrategic calibration allows us to complete proper homework and offers the flexibility to say“no” to investments that we find sub-optimal. Since our commercial interest is aligned togenerate higher return on capital, we don't unduly prioritise growing the fund itself.
• Avoid long duration
We invest in shorter maturity bonds of fundamentally strong corporates at an attractiveabsolute yield. This protects us from having to forecast interest rates; a challenge that trips-up most professional investors most of the time. Equally important is the fact that short tenoralso offers the enormous benefit of not having to predict the prospects of a business far intothe future. Since uncertainties rise exponentially with time, we logically prefer to settle for aslightly lower yield than expose our capital to the risk of permanent loss due to potentialdisruptions over the longer term. We bear in mind that our upside is in any case capped bythe bond's contracted yield, unlike the case of an equity investor who accepts long durationin the hope of earning an out-sized upside.
Key tenets
Four key tenets of our investment and risk mitigation framework :
• Avoid placing too much value on credit ratings
Credit events from the last year validate the fact that securities of highly rated and largerfirms are not necessarily safer than those issued by smaller companies. The fund welcomesopportunities from relatively new issuers by leveraging our in-house capability to analysebusinesses from a fundamental bottom-up perspective. These emerging firms require smallersums and it takes us considerable time and resources for a thorough due-diligence. Preciselyfor this reason the big institutions are not equipped to operate in this space, allowing us toearn superior yields.
• Embrace Illiquidity
The bond market is dominated by large mutual funds that are managed by small teams. In theinterest of efficiency they tend to prefer investing in large and well established firms whosebonds are perfect for quick large scale deployment and offer liquidity at short notice. On thecontrary, the issue with emerging company bonds is that they tend to be less liquid and we asinvestors should be clear in our mind about holding them till they mature in 18 to 30months. In this aspect we are particularly well placed. Despite being an open-ended fund(monthly window), we are uniquely positioned to buy illiquid bonds in exchange for higheryield due to the stability of our diversified corpus from 195+ clients.
Key tenets (Contd.)
Four key tenets of our investment and risk mitigation framework (Contd.)
Our quick access to institutional borrowings against the bond portfolio and a well-definedliquidity management policy further strengthen us. The following table provides you aglimpse of our diversity:
We respect and appreciate the faith you have reposed in Unifi. We will continue to beinnovative and disciplined as we work on sustaining the higher returns that this fund hasgenerated.
Key tenets (Contd.)
Four key tenets of our investment and risk mitigation framework (Contd.)
Particulars Corpus % Particulars Corpus %
Top 3 clients 12% Direct Clients 63%
Top 5 clients 17% Top 2 distributors 19%
Top 10 clients 26% Top 5 distributors 31%
Why Unifi High Yield Fund
• Successful and consistent track record of achieving superior returns than the benchmark credit and dynamic bond mutual funds in all the 6 years since inception.
• Open-ended fund with no entry load. No exit load post 6 months of investment.
• Historical volatility has been less than 2%. Portfolio construction with uncompromising emphasis on capital preservation.
• Core high yield debt portfolio with flexibility to participate in event arbitrage opportunities with high returns potential.
• Complete bottom-up in-house research of all deals and rigorous monitoring mechanism post investment. No outsourcing of research or undue reliance on credit ratings.
• Calibrated raising of fresh capital according to deployment potential. Not looking to scale beyond INR 1000 crores so as to remain nimble and deliver performance across market and economic cycles.
P . S . - The Power of Compounding
The power of compounding is the eight wonder of the world – Einstein.
A portfolio with consistent above average compounded returns over years createsmore wealth than a one offering high returns at a higher volatility. See theexample below –
Even one bad year in a 5 yr time period could significantly bring down the returnsand dilute the power of compounding.
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Portfolio A 100 18% 16% 17% 19% 15%
219
Portfolio B 100 40% 27% -38% 24% 22%
167
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