NEWS - 18

Salus Alpha Equity Hedged returned 4.77% in December

Fri, 20/01/2012

The Salus Alpha Equity Hedged had a performance of +4.77% for December, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +3.92%. The 12 month rolling alpha of Salus Alpha Equity Hedged to the S&P500 is 6% p.a., the 12 month rolling beta is currently -0.1. This implies that in the past 12 months, the fund had a return of 6% due to active management (alpha). The Salus Alpha Equity Hedged currently has a 5% exposure to Long Bias, 42% to Market Neutral, 47% to Long Short Variable Bias, and 6% to Short Bias.

The Salus Alpha Managed Futures had a performance of +1.37% for the month to date, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +0.52%.

The CTAs, Global Macro and FX Managers in the Salus Alpha Managed Futures portfolio profited by continuing trends in Softs, Precious Metals, Industrial Metals and Financials.

The Salus Alpha RN Special Situations had a performance of +1.29% for the month to date, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +0.44%.

The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage had a performance of +0.20% for the month to date. The fund outperformed the Dow Jones UBS Commodity Index by 3.95% during the reporting period, which  lost -3.75%, and it outperformed the S&P GSCI Index by 2.19%, which booked a loss of -1.99% in the reporting period.

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.

Contango denotes a market situation where longer-dated commodity futures are priced higher than shorter-dated commodity futures. Markets in contango are characterised by low demand relative to available supply. In these markets, investors holding a long position suffer a roll loss when selling expiring contracts at low prices, and buying new contracts as higher prices. The CAX Index currently has a 4.85% spread position in Lean Hogs, which is currently 26.77% p.a. contangoed.

The Salus Alpha Real Estate had a performance of -0.16% for the month to date, outperforming the EPRA / NAREIT Index by +0.53%. 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 0.53% during the month of December.

The current volatility in the Real Estate markets is above the model’s risk threshold. The fund therefore has no allocation to equities and is invested exclusively in risk neutral assets.

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 +25.57% in this timespan.

The Salus Alpha Multi Style had a performance of -0.52% for the month to date.

The Salus Alpha Directional Markets had a performance of -5.38% for the month to date.