The document summarizes a global macro hedge fund called Zaratan Capital. It provides an overview of the firm, management team, and investment process. Some key points:
- Zaratan Capital utilizes a global macro strategy to take advantage of trends across rates, currencies, commodities, and equity markets globally using liquid derivatives.
- The investment team has over 75 years of combined experience in finance and has worked together for over a decade. They implement a process focused on macro theme identification, trade construction, portfolio construction, and risk management.
- Past performance shows the strategy has achieved positive returns with low volatility and the ability to withstand market drawdowns when employed by team members previously. The fund aims to provide
This Open ended Fund of Funds Scheme is suitable for investors who are seeking*:
1. Long-term capital growth
2. Investment in units of overseas funds which invest in equity, debt and short term securities of issuers around the world
3. High Risk**
*Investors should consult their financial advisors if in doubt about whether the Scheme is suitable for them.
**Risk may be represented as:
Low: Investors understand that their principal will be at low risk
Moderately Low: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderately low risk
Moderate: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderate risk
Moderately High: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderately high risk
High: Investors understand that their principal will be at high risk
The document discusses exchange traded products (ETPs) and how Itransact provides a platform for investing in them. It notes that ETPs provide diversified, low-cost exposure to market indexes. Itransact aims to simplify investing and provides access to both local and international ETPs and asset managers through financial advisors for fees between 0.45-0.7% annually. The document emphasizes that high costs can erode returns and passive index-tracking ETPs generally have lower costs than actively managed funds.
The document discusses Belmont Investments, a hedge fund manager based in the US, Dublin, and Singapore. It notes that hedge funds can provide diversification benefits when added to a portfolio of stocks and bonds, as they have low correlation to traditional assets and can help lower overall portfolio risk and volatility. The document also discusses managed futures funds, which invest in futures contracts across a variety of markets, and how they can exhibit trend-following behavior and further improve risk-adjusted returns when added to stock and bond portfolios.
netwealth educational webinar - The evolution of asset allocationnetwealthInvest
On April 14, 2016 Tracey McNaughton, Head of Investment Strategy at UBS presented to financial advisers on the evolution of asset allocation during a netwealth educational webinar.
Why International?
Access to global themes and global best practice.
Narrow concentration of Australian share-market and economy creates a bottle-neck for growth and adds unnecessary portfolio risk.
Equity is the GROWTH asset. As the lowest end of the capital structure, the attraction in holding equity invariably is the GROWTH aspect. This compensates us for the risk born in owning equity.
Slowing Australian growth & falling cash rates mean investors should cast a wider net.
On 1/26/2017, we hosted a webinar featuring Richard Lindsey, Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Alternative Strategies at Windham Capital Management. Rich discussed how to model portfolio returns, risk premia, and how to decompose portfolio risk.
This document provides an overview of a large investment team and their views on key investment themes and the South African economic landscape. It summarizes their outlook on topics such as global and local economic growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, the current account balance, and bond and currency markets. It also reviews the interest rate outlook and strategies for the income fund. In addition, it discusses the structure of the investment team and retail funds, as well as trends in the sovereign credit rating and bond ownership.
Strategies for positive returns in volatile marketsnetwealthInvest
Part of Netwealth's portfolio construction webinar series - ST Wong from Prime Value presented to an audience on 14th June 2016 on the topic of absolute investing.
This Open ended Fund of Funds Scheme is suitable for investors who are seeking*:
1. Long-term capital growth
2. Investment in units of overseas funds which invest in equity, debt and short term securities of issuers around the world
3. High Risk**
*Investors should consult their financial advisors if in doubt about whether the Scheme is suitable for them.
**Risk may be represented as:
Low: Investors understand that their principal will be at low risk
Moderately Low: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderately low risk
Moderate: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderate risk
Moderately High: Investors understand that their principal will be at moderately high risk
High: Investors understand that their principal will be at high risk
The document discusses exchange traded products (ETPs) and how Itransact provides a platform for investing in them. It notes that ETPs provide diversified, low-cost exposure to market indexes. Itransact aims to simplify investing and provides access to both local and international ETPs and asset managers through financial advisors for fees between 0.45-0.7% annually. The document emphasizes that high costs can erode returns and passive index-tracking ETPs generally have lower costs than actively managed funds.
The document discusses Belmont Investments, a hedge fund manager based in the US, Dublin, and Singapore. It notes that hedge funds can provide diversification benefits when added to a portfolio of stocks and bonds, as they have low correlation to traditional assets and can help lower overall portfolio risk and volatility. The document also discusses managed futures funds, which invest in futures contracts across a variety of markets, and how they can exhibit trend-following behavior and further improve risk-adjusted returns when added to stock and bond portfolios.
netwealth educational webinar - The evolution of asset allocationnetwealthInvest
On April 14, 2016 Tracey McNaughton, Head of Investment Strategy at UBS presented to financial advisers on the evolution of asset allocation during a netwealth educational webinar.
Why International?
Access to global themes and global best practice.
Narrow concentration of Australian share-market and economy creates a bottle-neck for growth and adds unnecessary portfolio risk.
Equity is the GROWTH asset. As the lowest end of the capital structure, the attraction in holding equity invariably is the GROWTH aspect. This compensates us for the risk born in owning equity.
Slowing Australian growth & falling cash rates mean investors should cast a wider net.
On 1/26/2017, we hosted a webinar featuring Richard Lindsey, Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Alternative Strategies at Windham Capital Management. Rich discussed how to model portfolio returns, risk premia, and how to decompose portfolio risk.
This document provides an overview of a large investment team and their views on key investment themes and the South African economic landscape. It summarizes their outlook on topics such as global and local economic growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, the current account balance, and bond and currency markets. It also reviews the interest rate outlook and strategies for the income fund. In addition, it discusses the structure of the investment team and retail funds, as well as trends in the sovereign credit rating and bond ownership.
Strategies for positive returns in volatile marketsnetwealthInvest
Part of Netwealth's portfolio construction webinar series - ST Wong from Prime Value presented to an audience on 14th June 2016 on the topic of absolute investing.
This document provides an overview of the Threadneedle European Corporate Bond Fund managed by Columbia Threadneedle Investments. It discusses the firm's fixed income credentials, investment philosophy, team and process. Columbia Threadneedle has over €174 billion in fixed income assets under management across equities, fixed income, alternatives and asset allocation. It employs an active approach to investing and focuses on issuer and security selection to achieve strong risk-adjusted returns. The investment grade credit team utilizes rigorous fundamental research and a collaborative culture to generate ideas and construct high-quality, diversified portfolios.
This document discusses strategies for diversification and controlling risk in investments. It summarizes a typical pension fund asset allocation from JPMorgan that divides investments among equities, fixed income, real estate and alternatives. It then discusses the significant monetary and fiscal stimulus by governments and central banks. Finally, it advocates constructing portfolios with statistically independent risk factors to reduce volatility and enhance returns over market cycles.
Hilltop decorrelated fund august 2013 factsheetJohn Robertson
This document provides information on the Hilltop Decorrelated Fund, including its portfolio allocation and historical performance. The fund utilizes a multi-manager approach, investing in 10-15 hedge fund strategies across global markets that aim to deliver returns with low correlation to traditional benchmarks. In August 2013, the fund was down 0.2% with half of its 16 underlying managers positive and half negative. The document also provides details on fund terms, fees, and the investment experience and background of the fund manager.
The document discusses the PSG Flexible Fund, a South African investment fund managed by PSG Asset Management. It highlights the fund's flexible mandate that allows for equity exposure between 0-100% and ability to invest up to 20% offshore. Over its lifetime, the fund has achieved an annualized return of 16% versus inflation plus 6% while taking lower risk than the market. The document outlines the fund's investment philosophy of buying exceptional businesses at low valuations and provides details on portfolio holdings, performance, and the benefits of the fund's flexible mandate.
- The document discusses market opportunities in light of current global economic conditions and asset allocation views.
- Key areas discussed include slowing US job growth, low returns requiring defensive positioning, China's bad bank debts limiting stimulus, a structurally weak South African rand, and weakening support from SA consumers.
- The document identifies opportunities in offshore property and bonds, which are highlighted as almost but not quite favorable. It provides analysis to support positive views on offshore assets and cautious views on local South African exposures.
The document provides an overview of FundX Investment Group, which uses an "Upgrading" strategy to invest client funds in the best performing mutual funds. It discusses the current bull market environment and perspectives on stocks, bonds, and alternatives. It emphasizes having realistic return expectations and using discipline like rebalancing to achieve long-term investment success. Contact information is provided to learn more about FundX's newsletter, mutual funds, and private account services.
In this presentation, we review methods and best practices for the portfolio construction and evaluation process. The presentation covers risk and return estimation, mean-variance optimization as well as techniques for analyzing exposure to loss and wealth potential.
Hilltop decorrelated fund october 2013 factsheetJohn Robertson
The Hilltop Decorrelated Fund gained 1.2% in October. After months of offsetting winning and losing positions cancelling each other out in the first half of the year, the fund has seen a return to normality over the past 4 months with more winning than losing positions. The fund employs a multi-manager strategy investing in 12-20 underlying hedge funds pursuing decorrelated returns across asset classes like equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities. The target is an average annual return of 10-12% with low volatility and correlation to markets.
Olympic Wealth Fund, 'Javelin' Fund fact sheet class 'B' February 2015Olympic Wealth Fund
The Javelin Global Fund Fact Sheet provides performance data and details about the fund. Over the past year, Class B saw returns of 81.84% and since its launch in January 2012, returns have been 90.42%. The top three holdings are Suncor Energy Inc, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, and Microsoft Corp, making up 39%, 33%, and 28% of the fund respectively. The fund seeks to provide capital appreciation over the medium to long term through a focus investing approach in well-run global businesses.
This document provides information on the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund product structure and investment strategy. The fund is a globally diversified multi-asset fund that seeks to provide returns competitive with global stocks at a lower level of volatility. It has over $14 billion in assets under management. The fund takes an unconstrained approach to investing across asset classes, countries, currencies and securities based on macroeconomic analysis and bottom-up research. It aims to generate alpha through both top-down asset allocation decisions and bottom-up security selection.
The SF portfolio of funds provides investors with three funds of funds (SF Cautious, Positive, and Adventurous) that cater to different risk tolerances. The funds invest in a variety of underlying funds across asset classes and geographies to diversify risk. Performance has weathered market volatility since 2008 due to attention to downside risk, quality fund selection, and taking advantage of opportunities. The funds aim to outperform over the long-term by investing in undervalued assets rather than chasing short-term momentum. Research involves scrutinizing funds and understanding their strategies and economic backdrops. The funds are suitable for medium to long-term investors comfortable with some volatility.
Acadian Emerging Markets Portfolio won a Lipper Fund Award for ranking first in performance out of 103 emerging markets funds over a 10-year period ending December 31, 2009. The portfolio is managed by an experienced five-person team led by Matthew Cohen at Acadian Asset Management, a firm specializing in global and international equity investments. Acadian uses an active management strategy with a broad 6000+ stock universe in 40 countries to shift to the most attractive emerging market assets over time while maintaining risk control.
1) The document discusses the growth of regulated investment funds like UCITS funds in replacing offshore hedge funds. It summarizes the issues with offshore hedge funds like lack of transparency and regulatory oversight.
2) Performance of traditional investments like bonds and equities have been lower than liabilities in recent years, making alternatives like hedge funds more attractive for pension funds. However, hedge funds also face challenges of low yields and volatility.
3) Going forward, there is a trend toward more regulated and transparent onshore funds that provide downside protection and absolute returns. UCITS funds are growing rapidly in Europe and address investor needs for liquidity, transparency and tax efficiency.
The document discusses whether traditional cautious managed funds are still relevant given changes in regulations and investment opportunities. It presents the benefits of a modern multi-asset fund compared to traditional funds, including exposure to alternative asset classes, tactical asset allocation, and manager selection. The Skandia Diversified fund is provided as an example of a modern multi-asset fund that aims to outperform its sector through diversification across asset classes and managers.
This document summarizes a meeting between Meyer Coetzee, Head of Retail, and Henk Kotze, PM Income Provider, on November 9, 2018. The agenda included a business update, discussion of the Prescient Income Provider fund, and the Prescient Balanced Fund. Key points included Prescient scaling up operations by focusing on people, operations, and strategy. An overview of Prescient's ownership structure post-BEE deal and staff share scheme was provided. The Prescient investment team and their experience was outlined. The Prescient philosophy of valuation-driven, risk-focused investing to maximize upside and minimize downside was discussed. Performance of the Income Provider fund since 2006, beating inflation and various market indices, was
This document provides an overview of the Denker Capital investment team, their positioning and performance of the SIM Global Emerging Markets Fund, and arguments for investing in emerging markets. The key points are:
1) Denker Capital is an independent asset manager established in 2015 with an experienced investment team. The SIM Global Emerging Markets Fund is co-managed by Neal Smith and Richard Shepherd.
2) The fund is positioned with over half of assets in Asia and outperforms its benchmark over 1-year, 2-year and since inception periods. Top holdings include Alibaba, Samsung Electronics and Sberbank.
3) Emerging markets offer long-term growth opportunities due to underrepresentation
The document discusses various investment and protection services available through RL360. It begins by summarizing the Isle of Man's history and reputation as an offshore financial center. It then discusses RL360's regulation and client protection schemes. The document goes on to provide examples of regular contribution investment plans, single sum investments, and independent discretionary management services. It also introduces a new emerging market equity income fund and describes international protection plans.
Ahead of the marcus evans Private Wealth Management Summit 2021, read here an interview with Gershie Vann discussing how to deliver the yield that investors are looking for.
Timothy Tan Wee Lee is a 49-year old Hong Kong national with over 25 years of experience in finance. He has held senior positions at major financial institutions managing portfolios in credit, fixed income, currencies and macro trading. Currently he is focusing on personal development, managing investments, and providing freelance analysis on investment themes. He has extensive experience in portfolio management, research, and strategy development across global markets.
This document provides an overview of the Threadneedle European Corporate Bond Fund managed by Columbia Threadneedle Investments. It discusses the firm's fixed income credentials, investment philosophy, team and process. Columbia Threadneedle has over €174 billion in fixed income assets under management across equities, fixed income, alternatives and asset allocation. It employs an active approach to investing and focuses on issuer and security selection to achieve strong risk-adjusted returns. The investment grade credit team utilizes rigorous fundamental research and a collaborative culture to generate ideas and construct high-quality, diversified portfolios.
This document discusses strategies for diversification and controlling risk in investments. It summarizes a typical pension fund asset allocation from JPMorgan that divides investments among equities, fixed income, real estate and alternatives. It then discusses the significant monetary and fiscal stimulus by governments and central banks. Finally, it advocates constructing portfolios with statistically independent risk factors to reduce volatility and enhance returns over market cycles.
Hilltop decorrelated fund august 2013 factsheetJohn Robertson
This document provides information on the Hilltop Decorrelated Fund, including its portfolio allocation and historical performance. The fund utilizes a multi-manager approach, investing in 10-15 hedge fund strategies across global markets that aim to deliver returns with low correlation to traditional benchmarks. In August 2013, the fund was down 0.2% with half of its 16 underlying managers positive and half negative. The document also provides details on fund terms, fees, and the investment experience and background of the fund manager.
The document discusses the PSG Flexible Fund, a South African investment fund managed by PSG Asset Management. It highlights the fund's flexible mandate that allows for equity exposure between 0-100% and ability to invest up to 20% offshore. Over its lifetime, the fund has achieved an annualized return of 16% versus inflation plus 6% while taking lower risk than the market. The document outlines the fund's investment philosophy of buying exceptional businesses at low valuations and provides details on portfolio holdings, performance, and the benefits of the fund's flexible mandate.
- The document discusses market opportunities in light of current global economic conditions and asset allocation views.
- Key areas discussed include slowing US job growth, low returns requiring defensive positioning, China's bad bank debts limiting stimulus, a structurally weak South African rand, and weakening support from SA consumers.
- The document identifies opportunities in offshore property and bonds, which are highlighted as almost but not quite favorable. It provides analysis to support positive views on offshore assets and cautious views on local South African exposures.
The document provides an overview of FundX Investment Group, which uses an "Upgrading" strategy to invest client funds in the best performing mutual funds. It discusses the current bull market environment and perspectives on stocks, bonds, and alternatives. It emphasizes having realistic return expectations and using discipline like rebalancing to achieve long-term investment success. Contact information is provided to learn more about FundX's newsletter, mutual funds, and private account services.
In this presentation, we review methods and best practices for the portfolio construction and evaluation process. The presentation covers risk and return estimation, mean-variance optimization as well as techniques for analyzing exposure to loss and wealth potential.
Hilltop decorrelated fund october 2013 factsheetJohn Robertson
The Hilltop Decorrelated Fund gained 1.2% in October. After months of offsetting winning and losing positions cancelling each other out in the first half of the year, the fund has seen a return to normality over the past 4 months with more winning than losing positions. The fund employs a multi-manager strategy investing in 12-20 underlying hedge funds pursuing decorrelated returns across asset classes like equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities. The target is an average annual return of 10-12% with low volatility and correlation to markets.
Olympic Wealth Fund, 'Javelin' Fund fact sheet class 'B' February 2015Olympic Wealth Fund
The Javelin Global Fund Fact Sheet provides performance data and details about the fund. Over the past year, Class B saw returns of 81.84% and since its launch in January 2012, returns have been 90.42%. The top three holdings are Suncor Energy Inc, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, and Microsoft Corp, making up 39%, 33%, and 28% of the fund respectively. The fund seeks to provide capital appreciation over the medium to long term through a focus investing approach in well-run global businesses.
This document provides information on the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund product structure and investment strategy. The fund is a globally diversified multi-asset fund that seeks to provide returns competitive with global stocks at a lower level of volatility. It has over $14 billion in assets under management. The fund takes an unconstrained approach to investing across asset classes, countries, currencies and securities based on macroeconomic analysis and bottom-up research. It aims to generate alpha through both top-down asset allocation decisions and bottom-up security selection.
The SF portfolio of funds provides investors with three funds of funds (SF Cautious, Positive, and Adventurous) that cater to different risk tolerances. The funds invest in a variety of underlying funds across asset classes and geographies to diversify risk. Performance has weathered market volatility since 2008 due to attention to downside risk, quality fund selection, and taking advantage of opportunities. The funds aim to outperform over the long-term by investing in undervalued assets rather than chasing short-term momentum. Research involves scrutinizing funds and understanding their strategies and economic backdrops. The funds are suitable for medium to long-term investors comfortable with some volatility.
Acadian Emerging Markets Portfolio won a Lipper Fund Award for ranking first in performance out of 103 emerging markets funds over a 10-year period ending December 31, 2009. The portfolio is managed by an experienced five-person team led by Matthew Cohen at Acadian Asset Management, a firm specializing in global and international equity investments. Acadian uses an active management strategy with a broad 6000+ stock universe in 40 countries to shift to the most attractive emerging market assets over time while maintaining risk control.
1) The document discusses the growth of regulated investment funds like UCITS funds in replacing offshore hedge funds. It summarizes the issues with offshore hedge funds like lack of transparency and regulatory oversight.
2) Performance of traditional investments like bonds and equities have been lower than liabilities in recent years, making alternatives like hedge funds more attractive for pension funds. However, hedge funds also face challenges of low yields and volatility.
3) Going forward, there is a trend toward more regulated and transparent onshore funds that provide downside protection and absolute returns. UCITS funds are growing rapidly in Europe and address investor needs for liquidity, transparency and tax efficiency.
The document discusses whether traditional cautious managed funds are still relevant given changes in regulations and investment opportunities. It presents the benefits of a modern multi-asset fund compared to traditional funds, including exposure to alternative asset classes, tactical asset allocation, and manager selection. The Skandia Diversified fund is provided as an example of a modern multi-asset fund that aims to outperform its sector through diversification across asset classes and managers.
This document summarizes a meeting between Meyer Coetzee, Head of Retail, and Henk Kotze, PM Income Provider, on November 9, 2018. The agenda included a business update, discussion of the Prescient Income Provider fund, and the Prescient Balanced Fund. Key points included Prescient scaling up operations by focusing on people, operations, and strategy. An overview of Prescient's ownership structure post-BEE deal and staff share scheme was provided. The Prescient investment team and their experience was outlined. The Prescient philosophy of valuation-driven, risk-focused investing to maximize upside and minimize downside was discussed. Performance of the Income Provider fund since 2006, beating inflation and various market indices, was
This document provides an overview of the Denker Capital investment team, their positioning and performance of the SIM Global Emerging Markets Fund, and arguments for investing in emerging markets. The key points are:
1) Denker Capital is an independent asset manager established in 2015 with an experienced investment team. The SIM Global Emerging Markets Fund is co-managed by Neal Smith and Richard Shepherd.
2) The fund is positioned with over half of assets in Asia and outperforms its benchmark over 1-year, 2-year and since inception periods. Top holdings include Alibaba, Samsung Electronics and Sberbank.
3) Emerging markets offer long-term growth opportunities due to underrepresentation
The document discusses various investment and protection services available through RL360. It begins by summarizing the Isle of Man's history and reputation as an offshore financial center. It then discusses RL360's regulation and client protection schemes. The document goes on to provide examples of regular contribution investment plans, single sum investments, and independent discretionary management services. It also introduces a new emerging market equity income fund and describes international protection plans.
Ahead of the marcus evans Private Wealth Management Summit 2021, read here an interview with Gershie Vann discussing how to deliver the yield that investors are looking for.
Timothy Tan Wee Lee is a 49-year old Hong Kong national with over 25 years of experience in finance. He has held senior positions at major financial institutions managing portfolios in credit, fixed income, currencies and macro trading. Currently he is focusing on personal development, managing investments, and providing freelance analysis on investment themes. He has extensive experience in portfolio management, research, and strategy development across global markets.
NOVA is a multi-manager multi-strategy managed asset program looking for seed capital. This presentation represents simulated returns comprised of actual manager trading results.
This document introduces the concept of theme-based investing and provides an example theme of growing prosperity in emerging markets. It explains how certain themes like increasing consumer demand can drive investment opportunities across many industries from basic materials to healthcare. The document also discusses how East End Wealth Management approaches theme-based investing by focusing on macro trends rather than individual companies and maintaining a globally diverse portfolio. It provides examples of other themes the firm may consider and how contradictory themes require careful analysis of their interacting effects.
Combining unconstrained and tactical investment strategies to seek hedging, equity-like, and absolute-return style investment exposure.
Explores how to combine tactical equity, minimum volatility, managed futures, risk parity, and other approaches.
A portfolio is a Frame of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly tradable securities, like real estate, art, and private investments.
Investors should construct an investment portfolio in accordance with their risk tolerance and investing objectives. Securities can be used to build a diversified portfolio, but stocks, bonds, and cash are generally considered a portfolio's core building blocks.
The asset owners demonstrate a sound and considerable investment strategy to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) to maximize the long-term investment and better manage of Risk.
The asset owner strategies are required to focus on managing ESG-risks, seeking sustainable investment opportunities to create good financial returns and contribute to solutions for major problems in our global society.
Aspiriant sought a single marketing agency to handle all of their needs in a consistent manner. Proforma became their go-to agency, designing newsletters, email templates, and print materials while consistently applying Aspiriant's brand standards. Proforma also supported the launch of Aspiriant's pioneering risk-managed global equity fund by crafting messaging, designing websites and financial collateral.
Private equity firms raised $531 billion in new funds in 2016, consistent with 2015 levels. However, fundraising varied by region, with Europe seeing a 28% increase to $159 billion while the US declined 5% to $306 billion and Asia declined 22% to $66 billion. Despite record levels of dry powder, PE firms face challenges deploying capital at attractive valuations given still elevated prices. As a result, many firms are pursuing opportunistic strategies and moving into smaller deals while waiting for a broader market adjustment.
Cedar Portfolio Impact Investing Model Portfolio Dec 18 2019cedarportfolio
The document describes The Cedar Portfolio and its Cedargold Impact Investing Portfolio. The portfolio aims to achieve financial outperformance relative to benchmarks through investments in businesses that address ESG factors and impact investing, helping society and the environment. It utilizes a 14-step investment process that assesses quantitative and qualitative factors, and targets businesses involved in impact investing themes like sustainability. Backtesting from 2005-present shows the portfolio achieved higher returns with lower risk than the MSCI World Index. Contact information is provided for The Cedar Portfolio in Singapore, Toronto, and Chicago.
- After interviewing their investment manager partners, the consensus is one of cautious optimism about further stock market gains, but managers note the path remains precarious.
- Managers favor value stocks over growth and are underexposed to emerging markets and commodities despite recent strength in those areas.
- Within fixed income, emerging market bonds are becoming more attractive due to US dollar weakness.
- Government bonds are viewed more as portfolio insurance than a source of return given their low yields.
This document introduces four individuals who are members of the investment team at IPP Financial Advisers Pte Ltd (IPPFA):
- Albert Lam, Managing Director of IPPFA's Investment Division and chairman of the Investment Committee.
- Tan Lye Poh, Director of Wealth Management at IPPFA and a member of the Investment Committee.
- Eddy Tan, Head of Alternative Investments at IPPFA who assesses alternative investment products.
- David Mok, Head of Fund Management at IPPFA who oversees investment evaluation, selection, and strategy.
The document discusses volatility arbitrage hedge funds and their performance relative to other hedge funds during the market downturn of 2008-2009. It notes that volatility arbitrage funds returned 7.3% through August 2008 while most other hedge fund strategies struggled. A number of reasons for the strong performance are provided, including high volatility, opportunities from illiquid market conditions, and avoidance of exposure to sub-prime credit. The document proposes a new volatility arbitrage fund that will utilize flexible strategies tailored to changing market conditions in order to generate positive returns across different market environments. Brief biographies of the proposed fund's trading team are also included.
Kayleigh Baker - Unlocking Investment and Finance in EMDEs Final ProjectKayleigh Baker
this assignment I am conducting a presentation to the investment team in a large, well established pension fund with a goal of convincing the team that we should gain exposure to emerging markets and developing economies in our investment selections. I have selected a well-founded Indian Infrastructure fund that has excellent credibility and very high potential for considerable gains.
The purpose of my presentation is to show the importance of environmental and social governance factors have on consumer investment choices and how this will impact the future of the superannuation and pension industry. As well as the opportunity for early adoption into these practices.
The document provides an overview of the portfolio management process at ARIAN Capital. It discusses that ARIAN aims to help investors build wealth over time by leveraging the team's expertise and resources. The document then covers various aspects of portfolio management including asset allocation, investment constraints, developing a policy statement, evaluating risk and return, and factor affecting an investor's risk tolerance.
Cedar Model Portfolio Services Information Packet June 19 2019cedarportfolio
The document provides information on research services from The Cedar Portfolio that aim to generate annual returns of 10-12% through real wealth investments and trading opportunities. It summarizes the portfolio's approach, which incorporates Austrian school of economics principles, smart beta factors, and qualitative analysis to identify global equities and trading opportunities. Contact information is also provided.
The UK investment management industry is at a turning point. Traditional active managers have already had to adapt to changes in the institutional market, but now they face a confluence of trends – from regulation to pension auto-enrolment to the growth of passive investing – that could radically reshape the retail side of their industry as well.
Seismic shifts in investment management - Deloitte report June 2014Andrew Power
The document discusses seismic shifts occurring in the investment management industry, including increased importance of retail investors due to the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pension plans, new intermediation models concentrating fund flows, and internationalization of both products and client bases. Asset managers are responding by focusing on distribution partnerships, developing global or local products, adjusting pricing models, and cutting costs, but face significant challenges from these changes.
Kijana Mack - Ashton Global PresentationKijana Mack
The Ashton Global International Small-Cap Fund seeks to generate returns through investing in mispriced small-cap stocks and special situations globally. The fund's portfolio managers identify undervalued companies trading below intrinsic value, with a focus on smaller companies. Not constrained by benchmarks or sectors, the fund has the flexibility to invest where it finds the most value. Since inception in 2014, the fund has outperformed its benchmark with lower volatility through its deep value approach.
TRADE LIKE A HEDGE FUND - Harness the Power Of Technology to Gain Market Edge...Geoffrey Hossie
Presentation by Geoffrey Hossie of Pairtrade Finder to the Marbella Business Institute, 24 February 2017.
An introduction to Pair Trading and Why It Matters To You.
2. Zaratan - large, legendary sea turtle capable of living for centuries;
unaffected by ocean currents and often mistaken for an island, due to
their substantial size.
Like the Zaratan, our unique investment team has navigated dynamic
environments successfully delivering positive returns with low volatility.
In a world washed asunder by continued macro and political currents,
our investment process has stood the test of time and provides
investors with stability, when markets appear unstable.
The Zaratan team looks forward to assisting and growing with investors
as we circumnavigate the global macro environment together.
- Eric Leininger & Peter Ristine
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Table of Contents
A. Executive Summary Page 4
B. Zaratan Capital Management
1. Firm Overview Page 5
2. Management Team Pages 6-7
3. Performance History Page 8
C. Global Macro Fund
1. Investment Process Page 9
2. Macro Theme Identification & Analysis Pages 10-11
3. Investment & Trade Implementation Page 12
4. Portfolio Construction Page 13
5. Risk Management Page 14
D. Appendices
1. Macro Economic Analysis Points Pages 15-21
2. Trade Ideas & Implementation Pages 22-27
3. Portfolio Construction Framework Pages 28-34
4. Adding Leverage to Performance History Pages 35-36
5. Additional Fund Information Pages 37-41
4. Executive Summary
• Global Macro Hedge Fund – A discretionary investment strategy taking advantage of the recent
and significant activities across consumer and governmental contributions to the economy around
the world.
• Maximizing Liquidity – Utilizing highly liquid exchange-traded & over-the-counter products
across G20 rates, currencies, commodities and equity derivatives.
• Trade Construction - Identification and selection of best risk reward opportunities.
• Portfolio Construction – Correlation of asset classes as well as individual trades to the portfolio
will be stressed. This targets positively skewed investments that are also designed to reduce
overall portfolio risk
• Volatility Based Strategies – The fund will dedicate a significant portion of resources to volatility
products. These strategies can improve the quality of returns through timely & efficient trade
management, provide for an effective use of leverage, and better overall portfolio risk
management.
• Cross Asset Opportunities – Investments cross asset classes to take advantage of differing
value propositions for similar market outcomes.
• Alpha Generation –This provides the fund ample ability to trade across more asset classes and
generate synergies above and beyond the classic global macro strategies.
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5. Firm Overview
• The Next Generation of Global Macro - A New York based investment management firm
specializing in strategies that build upon classic global macro trends and the new world order
found in the more highly regulated and “manipulated” markets of today.
• Long History - A 5 person management team that has over 75 years of experience within the
financial industry1. Additionally, the team has worked together, as both colleagues and in a
client/service-provider relationship, for over a decade. This is a rare combination within the market
and allows for the transition of this successful partnership to a new venture that can monetize this
as a competitive advantage.
• Unique Experience – The team consists of individuals within experience that makes them
uniquely able to generate alpha through this enhanced global macro strategy1:
– Senior level experience within a classic global macro fund strategy
– Successful management of one of the largest, unlevered portfolios in the US market (measured in duration). Guided the portfolio
through the most turbulent market conditions of the last 50 years to materially outperform the market in 2008.
– An unparalleled network throughout top-tier financial institutions around the globe with an uncommon view of the inner workings of
service providers.
– Proven ability to build successful and profitable businesses, even in the most challenging markets.
• Smaller is Better – Empirical evidence suggests that funds with smaller Assets-Under-
Management and management teams can get better liquidity and have provided better returns in
this market environment2. Additionally, with the Volcker Rule causing large banks to cut back on
risk taking with their own capital and other large Global Macro funds returning money to their
investors, the market is ripe for new entrants.
1Biographies located on Slide 7-8 of this presentation. Size of team is ultimately dependent on AUM
2Financial Times article dated March 6th, 2013 entitled: "Small Hedge Funds Outdo Elite Rivals"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22153026-8572-11e2-9ee3-00144feabdc0.html
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Biographies …
The team will be initially comprised of 5 senior, highly experienced investment professionals with
extensive Global Macro experience.
Through their senior roles, the team has developed an international network of investment
professionals across many sell-side & buy-side institutions, and worked with a wide variety of
investors including; fund-of-funds, global insurance companies, retirement/pension plans
(institutional & philanthropic), banks, and asset managers.
◦ Co-Founder / Chief Investment Officer - Eric Leininger joined COMAC Capital, a global macro hedge fund in 2010 as
Head of Trading, becoming a partner in his first year. During his tenure, the fund’s AUM advanced from $3.2bn to
$5.9bn. At COMAC he implemented a disciplined global macro trading platform, advanced the investment process and
approach, introduced the strategic use of option structures and worked with investor relations in acquiring new
investors. Prior to joining COMAC, he was a Managing Director at Citigroup as the head of the firm’s rates and volatility
portfolio, responsible for the organization’s largest proprietary book. Prior to that he lead the Central Funding Desk in
its most turbulent time in history, successfully growing size and profit.
◦ Co-Founder / Head of Trading & Execution – Peter Ristine has over 18 years of experience in the financial industry with
a primary concentration in Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivative products. Mr. Ristine began his career at Salomon
Brothers in Risk Management and eventually progressed to Interest Rate Volatility trading. In 2001, Mr. Ristine
transitioned to Sales, following the merger with Citibank, where he utilized his extensive trading & risk management
experience advising numerous institutional clients on interest rate risk management strategies, generating increasingly
positive P/L each year. After leaving Citi in 2009, Mr. Ristine spent time at Standard Chartered Bank and Société
Générale, as an account executive enhancing & globalizing his extensive network of contacts. Mr. Ristine graduated
from the University of Florida in 1994 and is currently participating in the Chartered Financial Analyst program.
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Biographies, continued …
◦ Portfolio Manager / Strategist – An experienced individual has been identified and has expressed interest in joining the
team. This individual has an extensive background in Foreign Exchange products and modeling. This individual prefers to
remain “unnamed” for the time being, while in their current position.
◦ Chief Operating Officer – An experienced individual has been identified and been approached about joining the team. This
person is a proven builder of successful businesses and extremely well connected throughout the financial industry. This
individual prefers to remain “unnamed” for the time being, while in their current position.
◦ Economist / Research – A well-known Economist currently working on the sell-side at a Wall Street firm has expressed
interest in leaving their current position and joining our team. This individual has an excellent track record of researching,
analyzing, and predicting global economic data and has an extensive network of contacts throughout the industry. This
individual prefers to remain “unnamed” for the time being, while in their current position.
◦ Analyst / Quant - To Be Determined
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Jan Feb March April May June July August Sep Oct Nov Dec YTD
2005 0.2% 1.7% 0.1% -0.5% -0.2% -1.3% 3.4% 0.1% -0.1% -1.7% 1.7% 8.0% 11.3%
2006 -0.5% -0.1% -0.2% -0.3% 0.6% 0.0% -0.1% 3.4% 1.7% 0.5% 5.3% -5.9% 4.5%
2007 -1.6% 2.0% -0.5% 0.5% -3.4% 3.2% -0.8% 2.3% -1.3% -0.2% 0.2% 3.4% 3.6%
2008 0.0% 3.4% 0.7% 1.5% -1.5% 0.4% -2.0% -0.3% 0.0% 2.1% 3.2% 7.4% 15.0%
2009 -1.9% -0.7% 2.3% -1.8% -1.0% -1.1% 1.5% 1.7% 1.6% -0.2% 5.1% -3.3% 2.3%
2010 5.3% 0.5% 5.7%
Cumulative Return1 42.5% Best Month 8.0%
Average Annual Return 7.3% Worst Month -5.9%
Volatility 2.4% Largest Drawdown (Dec ‘06 – May ‘07) -8.8%
Ex-post Information Ratio 2.9 Months to Recovery 7
1Portfolio is unlevered (100% fully funded), gross of fees, and any capital appreciation is NOT reinvested.
Asset classes in portfolio limited to OTC Fixed Income Derivatives and Exchange-traded Fixed Income products.
Source: unaudited internal Citigroup data (authentication available upon request)
Capital is calculated against drawdown and risk measures.
9. • Macro Economic Analysis and Theme Identification
– Demographics, politics, fiscal and monetary policies, inflation, balance
sheets, credit, employment, productivity
• Investment Analysis and Trade Implementation
– Themes, pricing, trends, valuation (carry, roll, volatility), skewed risk
reward investment analysis, cross-asset construction
• Quantitative Portfolio Construction
– Liquidity, diversity, correlation, carry, volatility based sizing, appropriate
leverage, action plans
• Risk Management
– Value At Risk (VAR), draw-down triggers, liquidity, transparency,
“Greeks”, correlation changes, scenario analysis and stress testing, end-
to-end controls
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10. Macro Economic Analysis
and Theme Identification
Macro Investment strategies seek to anticipate broad asset trends in worldwide economics and
markets. The prior several decades has witnesses incredible change that will influence the near,
medium and long term investment returns. Examples of these types of themes over the past decade
include:
◦ A more integrated labor force as communism fell and emerging market countries moved towards capitalism
◦ A surge in the general growth of global productivity as technology advances were created and adopted
◦ Massive credit growth as the demand for investment mushroomed.
◦ Misallocation of capital into non productive assets, especially real estate
◦ Interconnectedness of the global economy
The future offers considerable macro investment themes and investment opportunities:
◦ Financial crisis – Fiscal shifts and trends
◦ Deleveraging – Of the financial and consumer sectors primarily in developed markets. How, when and what
methods used to deleverage are key questions that will continue to influence assets.
◦ Sovereign crisis –Sovereign leveraging
◦ Aggressive monetary policy – Massive divergences in policy responses between various central banks and
ongoing development and use of new policies
◦ Developing market growth – Will continue to see long-term higher growth rates
◦ Productivity advances – technology and business processes continue to exhibit strong productivity gains
◦ Deflation and Inflation – Deleveraging and lower labor costs will contribute to deflation while aggressive
monetary policy will contribute to cost push and some specific asset inflation
Finding the right investment expression that matches the analysis is an important interactive step
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Additional information in ‘Appendix 1’ beginning on Slide #15
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We believe that there are 3 potential outcomes from these key
economic variables:
1. Nirvana: Policies work, balance sheets are repaired, growth returns and
unemployment falls
2. Chaos: Monetary and Fiscal policy lose effectiveness, the Euro collapses, growth
turns more significantly negative, unemployment soars and a liquidity trap grips
the global economy
3. Disorganization: A long period of low growth, very slow deleveraging, higher
unemployment supplemented with growing wealth transfers, political gridlock,
ineffective fiscal policies, continued activist central banks, very low nominal rates
Our base case is that we will have a disorganized investment
environment for the near to medium term.
A successful investment strategy will have a strong foundation of
a thematic approach, excellent trade selection, quantitative
portfolio construction and robust risk management.
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Investment Analysis and
Trade Implementation
Lower growth, high unemployment and slower deleveraging can be quite positive
for many, but not all asset classes.
◦ Fixed Income will price lower rates for longer and continued Quantitative Easing from a variety of
Central Banks. This will provide a range trading environment often at higher levels.
◦ Equity prices can move higher. Free cash flows will be discounted on lower rates. Higher earning
will be possible from continued lower labor costs and higher productivity. Earnings multiples will
most likely remain low, but will not likely move lower. Favor EM and DM economies that are able to
generate superior relative growth.
◦ Foreign Exchange movements will track those economies that have more successful QE and growth.
Favor the USD over other major currencies and generally EM currencies that are able to generate
domestic consumption.
◦ Commodity prices will remain low or even fall as cost-push inflation will remain muted
Active central banks with disorganized fiscal policies should result in lower
realized asset price volatility with periods of implied volatility spikes. This will
provide significant opportunities view option strategies.
Risks to this view
◦ Watch for 1970 type price fixing and tariffs that will translate to higher inflation
◦ Political risks that heighten nationalism and result in damaging trade and investment policies.
◦ Fiscal and regulatory changes that give governments control over larger parts of the economy.
◦ Exogenous shock such as war, terror disease that increases unemployment or lowers confidence
Additional information in ‘Appendix 2’ beginning on Slide #22
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Quantitative Portfolio
Construction
The portfolio is generally constructed with:
◦ 5 or more macro themes
◦ 10 to 20 positively skewed investments that exhibit low correlation
◦ An investment horizon from a few days to six months or more
Once an investment has been identified it must undergo further rigorous
examination before it can be added to the portfolio.
Inputs to our Quantitative Portfolio Construction Framework include:
◦ Skew of the trade – Expected outcomes are weighed to increase the risk-to-reward ratio with a
target objective of1:3.
◦ Volatility or VaR based allocation to ensure correct weighting in the portfolio.
◦ Historic and Expected Correlation of trade to portfolio to ensure that as investments are added that
negative P&L risk is reduced
◦ Stop Losses and action triggers to provide effective management of the trade
Additional information in ‘Appendix 3’ beginning on Slide #28
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Risk Management
Measures
◦ VaR: Historical daily VaR at 95%, 2 year look back with tail analysis.
◦ Leverage: Notional derivatives leverage / NAV
◦ Correlations: between asset classes, portfolios strategies and markets
◦ Exposures: DV01, Notional, Greeks
◦ Stress Tests: Historic and generic
◦ Draw downs: Risk reduction process at 5% and 10% drawdown levels
Controls
◦ VaR: Run at an average of 1% daily VaR with a cap at 2%
◦ Greeks: Delta and Vega limits
◦ P&L: Peak to trough reduction of at least 1/3 risk at 4% and another 1/3 reduction at 8%
◦ Liquidity: Retain the ability to liquidate entire portfolio in three trading days
◦ Asset Class: Commodities or Equities will not comprise more than 20% of the portfolio by
VaR weighting. No physical commodities.
Risk Process
◦ Risk Team: Risk managed by the desk and by independent risk manager
◦ Risk Calculations: using a combination of external and internal risk management tools
◦ Daily Reviews with Weekly Formal Reports
◦ Top down and bottom up – connect risk to trades
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1. The financial crisis remains and deleveraging will continue. Developed
government balance sheets will deteriorate until consumers stop retrenching
McKinsey Quarterly, June 2012
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2. The large output gap will remain for years and will have a lasting impact on
unemployment, labor compensation and inflation.
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The output gap is strongly influenced by the unemployment rate and the
participation rate
The participation rate has been falling steadily.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts demographics will cut
another 2% off of the participation rate by 2020.
We believe we will see lower
unemployment, but
continued output gap as
jobs are not created.
We believe the Fed will watch
this closely and will continue
to use Quantitative Easing.
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3. Central banks will increase their monetary policy activities to accommodate
unemployment and attempt to ward off deflation.
International Monetary Fund
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4. However, the Fed will begin to remove the negative risk premium in the
market. This will drive real rates higher and inflation lower. Expect short
end rates to stay low.
From Chairman Bernanke’s March 1, 2013 Annual Monetary Conference speech
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5. An increased role of government in the economy will include higher taxes, more
wealth transfers, currency management and chaotic fiscal & regulatory actions.
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US Fixed Income
Long-tenor Fixed Income markets in the US and Europe will begin to move lower
as real rates increase and term premium is added back into market pricing.
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USD Forward Rate Steepener
While the Fed will be on hold for a very long time, pricing in the market is
inconsistent with the Board’s language. A positive carrying forward steepener
trade provides income for the portfolio and protection for long fixed income
during periods when rates move higher.
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Long US Equities Short AUDUSD
The Australian market appears appropriately priced with the RBA on hold,
inflation tame and unemployment okay. Global outperformance should come
from US Equity outperformance. We quite like how the US equity market
displays lower volatility relative to AUDUSD.
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Long the Dollar
The USD will a move to higher real rate and current valuation will steadily
increase in value against a basked of currencies.
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Negative Commodities
Commodity pricing will continue to weaken from lower demand, higher dollar
and more efficient demand use. There will be many investment opportunities
using option structures for neutral or negative outcomes.
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The portfolio function: Maximize Returns / Minimize Return
Volatility
Maximizing Returns is derivate from appropriate application of
◦ Assets price risk (Delta),
◦ change in price risk (Gamma and Vega),
◦ valuation relative to other asset classes
Returns can be generated through other factors such as credit and
liquidity risk, however, we generally seek to minimize these risks.
Returns can also be generated through timing, but empirically this is
a zero return activity.
Minimizing Portfolio Return Volatility is achieved through
◦ Diversification of positive skewed assets that have a low or negative expected correlation
◦ Reduce draw downs via specific trade actions as well as risk reductions at >2.5% daily, a 5% rolling
and, again at 10% rolling.
◦ Reduce tail outcomes through stress and scenario analysis. This is assessed by analysis of VAR left
tail distribution.
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This provides the following framework:
Thus:
◦ Expected Returns T1-T0 = ((Delta * Expected Price Change) + (Vega & Gamma * Expected Volatility
Change) + (Valuation Deviation * Change in Valuation)) * T1-T0
◦ Expected Return Volatility T1-T0 = (Return Correlation * Change in Correlation) + (Expected Stop Losses) +
(Expected Stress Losses) + (Expected Scenarios)
This framework allows us to assess what is the best expression of
investment while managing the risks. This also provides for a consistent
post period return analysis
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As discussed earlier, given our Macro Themes, we believe that Fixed
Income is set to rally further. However, our valuation framework
identified that the forward curve was at an extreme level. Finally,
our Gamma analysis showed that while implied volatility was
generally low, at time of Fixed Income stress, Implied jumped
significantly over historical.
Our return framework allowed us to create the following positive
skewed returns Fixed Income portfolio
◦ Long US Fixed Income (Delta) through 10yr Note Futures with VaR at 33 - 66 bps
◦ Long US Eurodollar Futures Curve (Valuation)
◦ Short 1 month OTM Puts (Gamma) on Implied Volatility spikes > 1.5% to Historic
Our Volatility framework determined that:
◦ Expected Correlation was negative for the first two investments, very low for the third
◦ Stop losses were at 33bps
◦ Stress and Scenario loss analysis was at 1.5% and 2.0%
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Our Fixed Income Portfolio
Taken together, these trades produce positive skewed outcomes, reduce return
volatility and allow up to increase the overall returns as lower correlation
between trades allows us to increase the overall size of the portfolio.
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Fixed Income,
50%
FX, 30%
Commodities,
10%
Equities, 10%
Eventual Asset Class
Composition (as % of VaR)
Initial Investment Strategies in
Exchange Traded Futures and
Options:
◦ Fixed Income
◦ Foreign Exchange
◦ Equities
Subsequent Strategies to
include:
◦ OTC Fixed Income
◦ OTC FX Options
◦ Exchange Traded Commodity
Futures and Options
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Fixed Income
50% of VAR
Equities
20% of VAR
Foreign Exchange
30% of VAR
•Long Eurodollar forward
steepener
•Short OTM 10 year Note futures
put spreads on dips
•Long equity futures in covered
call strategy
•Short OTM VIX puts
•Short OTM put spreads on dips
•Short EURUSD
•Short USDMXN
•Short AUDUSD vs. S&P above
Portfolio weighting driven by current and expect correlations and volatility pricing.
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A theoretical exercise designed to take the aforementioned,
actual Performance History, apply leverage and display
returns with capital appreciation reinvested.
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Jan Feb March April May June July August Sep Oct Nov Dec YTD
2005 0.03% 3.03% -0.17% -1.37% -0.77% -2.97% 6.43% -0.17% -0.57% -3.77% 3.03% 15.63% 18.40%
2006 -1.37% -0.57% -0.77% -0.97% 0.83% -0.37% -0.57% 6.43% 3.03% 0.63% 10.23% -12.17% 4.40%
2007 -3.57% 3.63% -1.37% 0.63% -7.17% 6.03% -1.97% 4.23% -2.97% -0.77% 0.03% 6.43% 3.20%
2008 -0.37% 6.43% 1.03% 2.63% -3.37% 0.43% -4.37% -0.97% -0.37% 3.83% 6.03% 14.43% 25.40%
2009 -4.17% -1.77% 4.23% -3.97% -2.37% -2.57% 2.63% 3.03% 2.83% -0.77% 9.83% -6.97% 0.00%
2010 10.23% 0.63% 10.87%
Geometric Return2 73.3% Best Month 15.6%
Average Annual Return 10.4% Worst Month -12.1%
Volatility 4.8% Largest Drawdown (Dec ‘06 – May ‘07) -20.0%
Ex-post Information Ratio 2.15 Months to Recovery 11
2Portfolio is presented pro forma, net of a 2% per annum Management Fee, and assumes reinvestment of income, and
is therefore hypothetical in that respect. Hypothetical results have inherent limitations. No representation is being made
that the Fund will or is likely to achieve returns similar to those shown. Transactions involve substantial risk of loss.
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Key Terms:
Domicile: Cayman Islands
Investment Manager:
Minimum Investment:
Management Fee: 2.0% (Discounts for Founder / Early Entry Share Classes)
Performance Fee: 20.0%
Subscription: Monthly
Redemption: Monthly (with 20 Business Days Notice)
Lock: 3.0% in the first year, declining 1.0% annually
Side Pocket: None
Service Providers:
Prime Broker: Citibank / Barclays / Credit Suisse / To Be Determined
Administrator: US Bancorp Fund Services / AIS Fund Administration Ltd.
Auditor: To Be Determined
Legal Advisors: To Be Determined
Fund Analytics: ENSO Financial Management / To Be Determined
ISDA Negotiation: Avalon Lake Partners / To Be Determined
Compliance: Avalon Lake Partners / To Be Determined
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The Fund is speculative and performance may be volatile. Positions in the Fund may be highly leveraged. A small change in the
market price of a position can produce major losses for the Fund. An investor could lose all or a substantial amount of his or
her investment. Regardless of trading performance, the Fund will incur fees and expenses, including brokerage and
management fees. An investment in the Fund provides limited liquidity since withdrawal/redemption rights are limited and not
freely transferable. There is no secondary market for the interests in the Fund and none are expected to develop. A portion of
the trades executed for the Fund may take place on foreign exchanges.
No representation is made that the Fund will or is likely to achieve its investment objective, or that any investor will or is likely
to achieve results comparable to those shown, or will make a profit, or will be able to avoid incurring substantial losses. Past
performance is guarantee of future results. Return targets or objectives and/or index and benchmark performance are
presented for illustration purposes only. Targeted returns are not intended to be actual performance and cannot be relied upon
as an indication of actual or future performance.
The Fund’s investments are selected by, and will vary in the sole discretion of, the Fund Manager. Investments are subject to
availability and market conditions, among other things. The Fund Manager has broad discretion to increase or decrease
exposures in the Fund in its sole discretion. Thus, while exposures and leverage rates that may be presented in this document
might be accurate as of the date of the presentation, such ranges may vary widely from time to time. The description herein of
the Funds’ investments, investment process, or investment strategies and styles may not be fully indicative of any present of
future investments, and may be changed in the sole discretion of the Fund Manager. The Fund may invest in foreign securities
and may employ a variety of investment techniques such as options trading, the use of leverage, and short selling strategies;
each of which involves special investment and risk considerations. Investments in the Fund are intended for sophisticated
investors only, as defined by law. Certain investors in the Fund may be subject to preferential terms.
The above summary is not a complete list of the risks and other important disclosures involved in investing in the Fund and are
subject to more complete disclosures contained in the Funds’ respective offering documents, articles, and partnership
agreements which must be reviewed carefully.
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