{"id":2114,"date":"2008-05-04T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2008-05-04T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:57:49","slug":"mapf-performance-april-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"MAPF Performance: April, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fund had a good month in April, with substantial outperformance against its benchmark.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">Returns to April, 2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Period<\/td>\n<td><strong>MAPF<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>One Month<\/td>\n<td><strong>+0.73%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+0.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Three Months<\/td>\n<td><strong>-0.38%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-1.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>One Year<\/td>\n<td><strong>+0.40%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-5.61%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Two Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+3.49%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-0.83%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Three Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+4.45%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+0.57%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Four Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+5.75%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+1.84%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Five Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+9.40%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+2.72%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Six Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+8.10%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+3.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Seven Years (annualized)<\/td>\n<td><strong>+9.22%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+2.92%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><em>The Index is the BMO-CM &#8220;50&#8221;<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Returns assume reinvestment of dividends, and are shown after expenses but before fees. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. You can lose money investing in Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund or any other fund. For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himivest.com\/malachite\/MAPFMain.php\">the fund&#8217;s main page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The yields available on high quality preferred shares remain elevated, which is reflected in the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=1438\">estimate of sustainable income<\/a>. The figures for YTW and Leverage Divisor were disclosed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=2113\">the discussion of the April month-end portfolio composition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">Calculation of MAPF Sustainable Income Per Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Month<\/td>\n<td>NAVPU<\/td>\n<td>Portfolio<br \/>\nAverage<br \/>\nYTW<\/td>\n<td>Leverage<br \/>\nDivisor<\/td>\n<td>Securities<br \/>Average<br \/>YTW<\/td>\n<td>Sustainable<br \/>\nIncome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>June, 2007<\/td>\n<td>9.3114<\/td>\n<td>5.16%<\/td>\n<td>1.03<\/td>\n<td>5.01%<\/td>\n<td>0.4665<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>September<\/td>\n<td>9.1489<\/td>\n<td>5.35%<\/td>\n<td>0.98<\/td>\n<td>5.46%<\/td>\n<td>0.4995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>December, 2007<\/td>\n<td>9.0070<\/td>\n<td>5.53%<\/td>\n<td>0.942<\/td>\n<td>5.87%<\/td>\n<td>0.5288<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March, 2008<\/td>\n<td>8.8512<\/td>\n<td>6.17%<\/td>\n<td>1.047<\/td>\n<td>5.89%<\/td>\n<td>0.5216<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>April, 2008<\/td>\n<td>8.9156<\/td>\n<td>6.09%<\/td>\n<td>1.034<\/td>\n<td>5.89%<\/td>\n<td>0.5251<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\"><em>NAVPU is shown after quarterly distributions.<\/em><br \/><em>&#8220;Portfolio YTW&#8221; includes cash (or margin borrowing), with an assumed interest rate of 0.00%<\/em><br \/><em>&#8220;Securities YTW&#8221; divides &#8220;Portfolio YTW&#8221; by the &#8220;Leverage Divisor&#8221; to show the average YTW on the securities held<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is noteworthy &#8211; well, I consider it noteworthy &#8211; that the &#8220;Securities YTW&#8221; remained constant during the month despite the increase in portfolio credit quality during the period. The intent (insofar as a purely quantitative system can be said to have an intent) is to sell that quality back to the market as soon as it is not quite so cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The slight increase in &#8220;Sustainable Income&#8221; is largely due to the accumulation of one month&#8217;s worth of dividends, which have been received by the fund but not yet paid to unitholders.<\/p>\n<p>I will post more discussion later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fund had a good month in April, with substantial outperformance against its benchmark. Returns to April, 2008 Period MAPF Index One Month +0.73% +0.07% Three Months -0.38% -1.09% One Year +0.40% -5.61% Two Years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}