Congratulations to Kenanga Investors Berhad for winning the Best Malaysia Large-Cap Equity Fund. In a tough market last year, Kenanga manages to put in a stellar performance and outperform all others.
We spoke to Lee Sook Yee, Chief Investment Officer of Kenanga Investors Berhad to share more about their secret for success.
Key Factors Behind The Success Of This Fund?
We are honoured to have received this award from Morningstar. This award reflects our team’s dedication and perseverance to continuously go above and beyond for our clients.
As a bottom up stock picker, our investment is underpinned by comprehensive fundamental research combined with a relative value approach to create superior risk adjusted returns.
In formulating a company’s investment thesis, we usually run channel checks on the company’s competitive advantages and also attempt to model out the growth drivers. Some of the key areas we look at include management quality, sustainable business model, industry dynamics and balance sheet strength.
By consistently applying this strategy, our funds have achieved continuously outperforming returns throughout the last 3,5 and 10 years.
Strategies To Maximise The Chance Of Success For The Fund
Half recovering from the pandemic-stricken crisis, 2021 presented both challenges and opportunities. One of the biggest challenges was having to grapple with the lingering impact of the pandemic, as persistent waves of Covid resurgence triggered intermittent lockdowns and containment measures, which when happened pulled the markets down with them.
Although such corrections became less intense as vaccination gathered pace, new sources of fear took shape in the form of worries over rising inflationary pressure attributed to severe supply chain disruption, talent and component shortage, power rationing which impacted our investments in varying degree.
We navigated through these speed bumps by constantly reviewing our investment theses to make sure they stayed relevant, identified the “relative winners” from sectors which were deemed resilient, consistently-growing and reasonably priced. Tech sector was one key sector which ticked most boxes and contributed immensely to our outperformance last year.
Can We Expect New Investment Products By Kenanga Investors?
We look forward to expanding our Kenanga Sustainability Series, a suite of multi-asset class products rooted in sustainability considerations to advance long-term financial growth for investors and to generate social and financial value for surrounding communities, in 2022. We introduced the first fund under this series in 2021 which was the Kenanga Sustainability Series: Frontier Fund. It provides investors with a range of opportunities in boosting not only the future development curve through the reduction of carbon emissions, new medical discoveries that may propel patient empowerment, and greater societal benefits while driving sustainable returns.
