Friday, December 9, 2011

NEWS - 17

Salus Alpha Even Driven strategy returned +1.51% in November

Fri, 09/12/2011

The Salus Alpha Event Driven had a performance of +1.51% for the month to date, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +2.02%. The 24 month rolling alpha of Salus Alpha Event Driven to the S&P500 is 3% p.a., the 24 month rolling beta is currently 0.0. This implies that in the past 24 months, the fund had a return of 3% due to active management (alpha).

The Salus Alpha Real Estate had a performance of -1.11% for the month to date, outperforming the EPRA / NAREIT Index by +3.49%. Salus Alpha Real Estate is a single manager single strategy fund, which invests according to Salus Alpha’s proprietary Global Real Estate Model. The Salus Alpha Real Estate outperformed the EPRA/NAREIT Real Estate Index by 3.49% and the GPR 250 Europe Index by 0.39% during the month of November. The fund currently has an exposure of 100% to the Real Estate markets.

Salus Alpha Real Estate has been awarded a 5 Star Rating by www.fondsprofessionell.de for its exceptional performance since inception on 21 January 2008. The fund outperformed the EPRA/NAREIT Real Estate Index by +25.38% in this timespan.

The Salus Alpha Directional Markets had a performance of -1.62% for the month to date.

The Salus Alpha Equity Hedged had a performance of +1.36% for the year to date until 11/30/2011, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +2.21%. The Salus Alpha Equity Hedged currently has a 14% exposure to Long Bias, 34% to Market Neutral, 22% to Long Short Variable Bias,  and 30% to Short Bias.

The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage had a performance of +2.35% for the year to date until 11/30/2011, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +3.20%. Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage tracks the CAX - Commodity Arbitrage Index. The CAX Index covers the performance of arbitrage strategies, which aim to extract consistent market neutral returns from valuation inefficiencies arising among related commodities - like for example Brent Crude vs. WTI Light Sweet Crude - or among different maturities of futures contracts on one commodity due to Contango, Backwardation and Seasonality.

The Salus Alpha Multi Style had a performance of -6.62% for the month to date.

The Salus Alpha RN Special Situations had a performance of -7.17% for the month to date.

The Salus Alpha Managed Futures had a performance of -12.26% for the month to date.

Event - Pictures of Salus Alpha Analyst Award 2011

Pictures of Salus Alpha Analyst Award 2011

On 5 December, it happened again. The 12th Salus Alpha Analyst Awards 2011 were awarded to the best analytical team and the best individual analysts.