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Bramshill Income Performance Fund 2023 Q3 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q3 2023 Letter Analysis

Bramshill Income Performance Fund Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

Annualized+2.65%

Positioning StanceConstructive

GeographyUS

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"Bramshill sees selective opportunities in securitized products despite real estate stress from Fed tightening. The firm focuses on seasoned residential mortgages and strong commercial real estate fundamentals while avoiding office, retail, and lodging sectors."

Executive Summary

Bramshill Investments argues that the unprecedented Federal Reserve tightening cycle has created stress in real estate markets but also selective opportunities in securitized products. The firm maintains that residential real estate fundamentals remain stable due to limited housing supply and low negative equity levels, while commercial real estate is bifurcated across property types. Office properties face the greatest headwinds from remote work trends, while industrial and multifamily sectors continue performing well. The firm's strategy focuses on investments secured by seasoned mortgage loans originated in 2020 and earlier, which benefit from significant home price appreciation and provide borrowers with equity cushions. They avoid new issue deals lacking seasoning and stressed commercial real estate sectors like office, retail, and lodging. Looking ahead, Bramshill expects fundamentals to bottom out in weaker sectors, creating opportunities to purchase securities at attractive valuations. Their selective approach targets mid-to-high single digit returns for senior investments and high single to mid-teen returns for junior positions, leveraging their ability to be tactical across the vast securitized products universe.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

68%

CautiousHigh

Moderate (68%)

The firm demonstrates high conviction in their selective approach with clear sector preferences and avoidances. They provide specific reasoning for avoiding office, retail, and lodging while favoring residential and multifamily. However, the absence of named individual positions and the emphasis on being 'selective' rather than concentrated caps the score below 0.75.

Growth Outlook

25%

BearishBullish

Bearish (25%)

The firm acknowledges significant stress from Fed tightening and regional banking issues but sees this as creating selective opportunities. They express constructive views on certain sectors while being cautious about others, resulting in a mildly positive but measured outlook.

Risk Appetite

15%

DefensiveAggressive

Defensive (15%)

The firm is positioned defensively with a focus on selectivity and avoiding stressed sectors. They emphasize being tactical rather than aggressive, maintaining a cautious but opportunistic stance rather than risk-on positioning.

Capital Deployment

43%

De-riskingDeploying

Net Neutral (43%)

The firm emphasizes selectivity and waiting for fundamentals to bottom out before making opportunistic investments. They describe avoiding certain sectors and being tactical rather than deploying capital aggressively, suggesting a slight pullback in deployment activity.

Forward Guidance

30%

CautiousExpansionary

Cautious (30%)

The firm plans to remain selective and wait for better opportunities as fundamentals bottom out and securities trade at more attractive valuations. They express readiness to deploy capital opportunistically but are not rushing to add exposure.

Language Signal

20%

BearishBullish

Bearish (20%)

The language balances opportunity-focused terms like 'constructive,' 'attractive valuations,' and 'outperform' with risk-aware language about 'stress,' 'impaired,' and 'avoiding' certain sectors. The net balance is slightly positive but measured.

Perceived Risk

72%

Low RiskElevated

Elevated Risk (72%)

The firm identifies multiple significant risks including unprecedented Fed tightening effects not fully realized, commercial real estate office sector stress, and regional banking vulnerabilities. They discuss these risks in detail with specific examples and implications, indicating high perceived risk in the environment.

Opportunity Density

45%

ScarceAbundant

Selective (45%)

The firm sees selective opportunities in specific sectors but emphasizes the need for careful selection and avoiding large portions of the market. They describe a 'large swath' of potential investments but stress being 'very tactical' and 'not constrained to buy the market,' suggesting moderate opportunity density requiring selectivity.

Time Horizon

60%

Short-TermLong-Term

Multi-Year (60%)

The firm discusses expectations for the remainder of 2023 and heading into 2024, with catalysts expected as fundamentals bottom out. They mention waiting for price discovery to firm and fundamentals to stabilize, suggesting a medium-term investment horizon of 1-3 years for their thesis to play out.