The Magellan Core ESG Fund has a track record of 3 years and 10 months and therefore comparison over all market conditions and against its peers is limited. However, the fund has underperformed the All Countries World (AUD) benchmark since inception in January 2021, providing investors with an annualised return of 11.84% compared with the benchmark's return of 13.14% over the same period.
On a calendar year basis, the fund has only experienced a negative annual return once in the 3 years and 10 months since its inception. Over the past 12 months, the fund's largest drawdown was -3.3% vs the index's -2.66%, and since inception in January 2021 the fund's largest drawdown was -20.22% vs the index's maximum drawdown over the same period of -16.02%. The fund's maximum drawdown began in January 2022 and lasted 1 year and 5 months, reaching its lowest point during June 2022. The fund had completely recovered its losses by June 2023.
The Manager has delivered these returns with 2.6% more volatility than the benchmark, contributing to a Sharpe ratio which has only fallen below 1 once over the past three years and which currently sits at 0.76 since inception. The fund has provided positive monthly returns 87% of the time in rising markets and 20% of the time during periods of market decline, contributing to an up-capture ratio since inception of 99% and a down-capture ratio of 108%.
The performance of the Magellan Core ESG Fund ranked it in the second quintile for Total Return, Sharpe and Downside Deviation over 3 years, while over 1 year the fund ranked in the first or second quintile for all KPIs except Total Return and Sharpe.