Firetrail IPO

Another hedge fund IPO in the coming month. This one is also managed by Commonwealth Securities and so I could participate via the broker firm offer. It is a market neutral hedge fund that can lever up to 200% of NAV in both the long and short sides. The investment team used to work at Macquarie where they got decent returns (22.1% p.a. from July 2015 to October 2017). I'm not so impressed by their performance this year since starting up on their own:

This is not the sign of a high Sharpe ratio investment – it seems there is a lot of risk in this investment relative to the returns. I think this is a fund that is worth tracking over time and seeing if it settles down and performs better. Based on the above, I don't think the shares will trade above the offer price immediately after the IPO, though that is just a guess.