Causeway Global Absolute Return (GAR) Fund is designed for investors who want equity-like returns with low volatility and low market correlation. The Fund invests in global developed markets equities, using swap agreements or direct investments to obtain exposures to long and short positions.
Causeway uses its fundamental global value equity strategy to manage the Fund’s long exposures and its quantitative investment strategy to manage the short exposures. Both the long and short portfolios seek to add alpha, which is amplified by leverage up to 4x, with a target of 3x.
The GAR Fund attempts to mitigates risk in a number of ways: on the short side, qualitative risk is captured by a fundamental review of short positions, and short exposures are constrained. Unrealized gains or losses through swap agreements are also constrained, limiting counterparty risk. There are approximately twice as many short exposures as long, mitigating idiosyncratic risk.
The GAR Fund has 85-180 long/short exposures. The dollar amount of the long exposures is generally equivalent to the dollar amount of the short exposures, but the Fund may have sector or regional biases.