HFS Bulletin

Monthly hedge fund update – February 2024

Hedge funds 01 Feb 2024 2 min read

Executive summary

Market and hedge fund update in a nutshell

In Equity Hedged, US Equity Hedged strategies generally produced positive returns in February. Most managers were profitable for the month, as returns were largely driven by idiosyncratic attributions. Technology and biotechnology managers generally outperformed, while managers with a utilities and renewables focus tended to lag.

Long / short spread and alpha generation was a bit more episodic. European Equity Hedged strategies generally produced positive returns. February was the fourth month in a row where EU equities were net bought. Asian Equity Hedged strategies generally produced positive returns. The market in China rebounded, and the rally in Japan continued.

In Relative Value, Fixed income relative value strategies generated mixed returns in February. Managers with short European swap spread exposure continued to benefit from the compression of swap rates vs. EGB yields, while those who attempted to take the other side incurred losses. Capital structure / volatility arbitrage strategies generally produced positive returns.

Convertible new issuance increased substantially in February accompanied by higher overall trading volume. Merger arbitrage and event-driven strategies generated mixed returns. On average, merger spreads moved approximately 40 basis points wide. Agency MBS strategies generally produced positive returns. Similar to prior months, carry was the primary contributor to performance. Quantitative equity strategies generally produced positive returns. The month was characterized by positive performances across the quant equity market neutral cohort.

In Credit / Income, Corporate credit strategies generally produced positive returns. The corporate long-biased sub-strategy continued to perform well and benefited from the move tighter in spreads. Gains were primarily attributable to long portfolios as managers benefited from a combination of positive carry and mark-to-market gains.

At the asset class level, profits were driven by bonds and loans. Asset-backed strategies generally produced positive returns. Carry was the main source of gains, while the mark-to-market impact varied by fund. Reinsurance / ILS strategies generally produced positive returns.

In Trading, Discretionary trading strategies generated mixed performance in February. Developed market (DM) macro managers were broadly challenged during the month, with curve steepening trades, particularly in the US, as well as front-end received bias across the US, UK, and Europe driving underperformance.

Systematic trading strategies generally produced positive returns. Trend-following strategies generated gains in agriculture via long positions in cocoa, cotton, hogs, long / short equities, equity indices, FX, and fixed income. Energy produced relatively flat returns, while small gains were produced in credit.

Index	Index	24-Feb	24-Feb	24-Jan	24-Jan	23-Dec	23-Dec	QTD	QTD	YTD	YTD	1Y Annualized Return	1Y Annualized Return	3Y Annualized Return	3Y Annualized Return	5Y Annualized Return	5Y Annualized Return	10Y Annualized Return	10Y Annualized Return	Volatility (10Y)	Volatility (10Y)
Index	MSCI World Total Return - Net USD	24-Feb	4.24	24-Jan	1.2	23-Dec	4.91	QTD	5.49	YTD	5.49	1Y Annualized Return	24.96	3Y Annualized Return	8.64	5Y Annualized Return	11.66	10Y Annualized Return	9.06	Volatility (10Y)	14.9
Index	FTSE US Broad Investment-Grade Bond Index	24-Feb	-1.41	24-Jan	-0.26	23-Dec	3.86	QTD	-1.68	YTD	-1.68	1Y Annualized Return	3.31	3Y Annualized Return	-3.18	5Y Annualized Return	0.58	10Y Annualized Return	1.44	Volatility (10Y)	4.8
Index	Barclays Global High Yield Index	24-Feb	0.79	24-Jan	-0.19	23-Dec	4.03	QTD	0.6	YTD	0.6	1Y Annualized Return	12.25	3Y Annualized Return	0.39	5Y Annualized Return	2.86	10Y Annualized Return	3.44	Volatility (10Y)	8.6
Index	Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return	24-Feb	-1.47	24-Jan	0.4	23-Dec	-2.69	QTD	-1.08	YTD	-1.08	1Y Annualized Return	-3.94	3Y Annualized Return	7.15	5Y Annualized Return	5.66	10Y Annualized Return	-1.84	Volatility (10Y)	14.14
Index	ICE BofA Merrill Lynch 3-month T-Bill Total Return	24-Feb	0.41	24-Jan	0.43	23-Dec	0.47	QTD	0.84	YTD	0.84	1Y Annualized Return	5.22	3Y Annualized Return	2.43	5Y Annualized Return	1.97	10Y Annualized Return	1.33	Volatility (10Y)	0.47
Index	HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index	24-Feb	1.94	24-Jan	0.73	23-Dec	2.18	QTD	2.69	YTD	2.69	1Y Annualized Return	7.45	3Y Annualized Return	2.38	5Y Annualized Return	4.91	10Y Annualized Return	3.38	Volatility (10Y)	4.99
Index	HFRI Equity Hedge (Total) Index	24-Feb	3.1	24-Jan	-0.05	23-Dec	4.5	QTD	3.05	YTD	3.05	1Y Annualized Return	11.99	3Y Annualized Return	2.76	5Y Annualized Return	7.6	10Y Annualized Return	5.46	Volatility (10Y)	8.7
Index	HFRI Event-Driven (Total) Index	24-Feb	1.02	24-Jan	-0.06	23-Dec	4.17	QTD	0.96	YTD	0.96	1Y Annualized Return	8.12	3Y Annualized Return	4.01	5Y Annualized Return	6.11	10Y Annualized Return	4.56	Volatility (10Y)	7.11
Index	HFRI ED: Credit Arbitrage Index	24-Feb	1.21	24-Jan	2.22	23-Dec	2.51	QTD	3.45	YTD	3.45	1Y Annualized Return	9.8	3Y Annualized Return	5.2	5Y Annualized Return	6.07	10Y Annualized Return	5.02	Volatility (10Y)	6.86
Index	HFRI Macro (Total) Index	24-Feb	2.68	24-Jan	0.55	23-Dec	0.86	QTD	3.24	YTD	3.24	1Y Annualized Return	2.63	3Y Annualized Return	5.4	5Y Annualized Return	6.1	10Y Annualized Return	3.36	Volatility (10Y)	4.66
Index	HFRI Macro (Total) Systematic Diversified Index	24-Feb	4.57	24-Jan	0.81	23-Dec	-0.06	QTD	5.42	YTD	5.42	1Y Annualized Return	1.29	3Y Annualized Return	5.52	5Y Annualized Return	6.02	10Y Annualized Return	3.06	Volatility (10Y)	7.64
Index	HFRI Relative Value (Total) Index	24-Feb	0.78	24-Jan	0.65	23-Dec	1.29	QTD	1.44	YTD	1.44	1Y Annualized Return	6.49	3Y Annualized Return	3.98	5Y Annualized Return	4.52	10Y Annualized Return	3.98	Volatility (10Y)	4.4

Strategy performance

Monthly hedge fund review

Overall market commentary

Risk assets maintained upward momentum in February and extended the rally that began late last year. Broader macroeconomic factors gave way to earnings season during the period and the strong results, particularly from well-known AI names were the main catalyst for the ongoing equity gains. The results were in spite of the move higher across most interest rate markets as US inflation data served to quell near term expectations of a March interest rate cut from the US Federal Reserve Bank. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P500 and NASDAQ indices produced positive performance of 2.22%, 5.17% and 6.12%, respectively. Across Europe, equity market performance was mostly positive in a broadly risk-on climate. The MSCI Europe and DAX generated positive performance of 1.79% and 4.58%, respectively, while the FTSE posted modest losses of 0.24%. Asian developed markets produced positive performance with the Nikkei 225 Index posting a gain of 7.94%, where market sentiment remained strong as the market approached the all-time highs. Emerging market nations generated broadly positive results in February despite higher developed market bond yields. Chinese, Indian and Brazilian equity markets produced gains of 8.13%, 1.04% and 0.99%, respectively. US interest rate markets retreated last month on the back of higher than expected inflation prints. The two-year US Treasury yield increased to 4.62% from 4.21% while the ten-year US Treasury yield increased to 4.26% from 3.91%. The Barclays US Corporate Investment Grade Index weakened 1.50% last month, in line with the move in Treasury yields, while the Barclays US Corporate High Yield Index rose 0.29%, where carry income tended to offset the move in bond prices. Commodity prices were again mixed with crude oil rising 3.4% while gold edged lower by 0.6%. In currency markets, the Euro rose 0.85% against the US dollar to 1.0895 from 1.0803 while the US dollar rallied 2.36% against the Japanese Yen from 146.18 to 149.64.

Source returns: UBS World Market Report

Monthly hedge fund review

Overall market commentary

Source returns: UBS World Market Report

HFRI Equity Hedge Total Index:

MTD 3.10%

QTD 3.05%

YTD 3.05%

Relative value

Fixed income relative value strategies generated mixed returns in February. Managers with short European swap spread exposure continued to benefit from the compression of swap rates vs. EGB yields, while those who attempted to take the other side incurred losses. US cash / futures basis trading was generally profitable for most managers, but European and JGB basis was more challenged. Many FIRV managers ventured into directional US rates receivers coming into February, but this theme was challenged as FOMC cuts were rapidly priced out following strong US CPI data and hawkish rhetoric from policymakers. Tail hedges, such as country spread wideners in Europe and front-end basis wideners, also detracted from performance.

Capital structure / volatility arbitrage strategies generally produced positive returns in February. After a slow start to the year, convertible new issuance increased substantially in February, bringing about USD 8bn to the market, which was also accompanied by higher overall trading volume. Deals that came to the market were predominantly attractively priced, and benefited from solid demand, which resulted in many deals trading well. Activity also included buybacks and exchanges. All these factors led to the strongest hedge fund performance since the mini dislocation in October 2023. In February, non-investment grade convertible bond spreads were up +1bp to 562bps, and the spread between non-investment grade convertibles and the Bloomberg HY ‘B’ Index increased to +278bps from +240bps last month.

Merger arbitrage and event-driven strategies generated mixed returns in February. On average, merger spreads moved approximately 40 basis points wider. Some notable events in February included Olink, the acquisition target of Thermo Fisher; Capril, the acquisition target of Tapestry; and Albertsons, the acquisition target of Kroger. North American M&A deal activity sustained its solid pace as nine deals sized above USD 1bn were announced in February. Year-to-date US M&A deal numbers were up approximately +46% compared to the same time last year. Transaction volumes in the US market were more than 2x higher year-over-year, driven by large strategic dealmaking activities, including Novo Holding’s USD 17bn acquisition of Catalent and the first sizeable banking deal, Capital One’s USD 35bn acquisition of Discover. Sector-wise, technology continued to lead deal activity as nine over USD 1bn technology deals were announced in February, the highest total since April 2022.

Agency MBS strategies generally produced positive returns in February. Similar to prior months, carry was the primary contributor to performance. The Agency MBS allocations continued to benefit from long investments in mortgage derivatives as the cash flow profile continued to be stable due to sustained slow prepayment speeds. In addition, managers also benefited from spread tightening in mortgage derivatives, which performed well based on strong fundamentals.

Quantitative equity strategies generally produced positive returns in February. The month was characterized by positive performances across the quant equity market neutral cohort, with prime brokers reporting systematic managers were strongly positive in February. Prime brokers also noted some marginal de-grossing activity across quants, which was consistent with our internal measures that showed somewhat moderating exposure to momentum. However, gross market value levels remained elevated versus history. Volatility and dividend yield were headwinds during the month, while size and quality worked well. After the spike in volatility around mid-month, we observed a sharp recovery in quant performance toward the third week of February as the environment normalized.

HFRI Relative Value Total Index:

MTD 0.78%

QTD 1.44%

YTD 1.44%

Credit/Income

Corporate credit strategies generally produced positive returns in February. The corporate long-biased sub-strategy continued to perform well and benefited from the move tighter in spreads in February. Gains were primarily attributable to long portfolios as managers benefited from a combination of positive carry and mark-to-market gains. At the asset class level, profits were driven by bonds and loans. In addition to the US and European investments, select positions in emerging markets also performed well. The corporate long / short sub-strategy exhibited the highest levels of dispersion in February. Managers with short-biased portfolios underperformed relative to the managers with net long biases. As a result, gains were driven by long investments, while short positions generated losses. Overall, long positions in emerging markets and Europe were the largest contributors to performance. Credit markets generated positive returns in most segments as credit spreads tightened in February. However, fixed rate bonds underperformed because of the increase in mortgage rates. Non-investment grade bonds generated gains, while investment grade credit incurred modest losses. Within non-investment grade, leveraged loans and CCC debt tended to outperform.

Asset-backed strategies generally produced positive returns in February. Carry was the main source of gains, while the mark-to-market impact varied by fund. In terms of asset class performance, CLOs and Reg Cap were the key contributors to performance. In addition, CMBS investments also performed well. Conversely, some of the legacy RMBS positions underperformed following the move higher in rates.

Reinsurance / ILS strategies generally produced positive returns in February. February was essentially a no-loss month for both catastrophe (cat) bond and collateralized reinsurance managers. As a result, the primary driver of returns was premium income. Managers also benefitted from spread tightening as demand outstripped supply during the month; this was the result of the dollar volume of maturing cat bonds exceeding the new issue supply. Some managers expect there will be more new issues that will hit the market in the coming months, which should serve to prevent a material amount of additional spread tightening.

HFRI ED: Credit Arbitrage Index

MTD 1.21%

QTD 3.45%

YTD 3.45%

Trading

Discretionary trading strategies generated mixed performance in February. Developed market (DM) macro managers were broadly challenged during the month, with curve steepening trades, particularly in the US, as well as front-end received bias across the US, UK, and Europe driving underperformance. Notably, a couple of exceptions existed where some managers had a more hawkish positioning and tactically traded, particularly across the front-end, which led to outperformance. Japan rates generally contributed positively, particularly for managers that were more positioned in the front-belly part of the curves. FX contributions were generally lighter, with some underperformance on JPY longs but gains from shorts in CHF, CNH and carry trades in Latam. Equities were a positive driver, with some managers generating material gains on long bias in the US and Japan, while others benefited more from long / short trading across the technology sector. Commodities were mostly mixed, given varied semi-systematic relative value and directional trading, energy positions, as well as long positions in copper and gold. Emerging market (EM) managers produced mixed results, with EM receiver trades largely challenged given the market moves, albeit some of the long exposure to Czech and China as well as short exposure in Chile, partly offset the losses. DM rates trading yielded varied results across EM managers, with some managers underperforming on the received bias and/or struggling with timing of more tactical traders in core rates, while others benefitted from tactically repositioning into front-end short exposure in the US. Similarly in FX, some managers profited from frontier long positions; others incurred losses from a mix of tactical EM/DM FX trading. Managers with larger long exposures in credit outperformed, capturing the spread compression and some of the more idiosyncratic stories in CEMEA and Latam space.

Systematic trading strategies generally produced positive returns in February. Trend-following strategies generated gains in agriculture via long positions in cocoa, cotton, hogs, long / short equities, equity indices, FX, and fixed income. Gains were partially offset by losses incurred within metals and industrials. Energy produced relatively flat returns, while small gains were produced in credit. Alternative market managers produced gains from agriculture, equities, energy, and currencies, while losses were incurred from other asset classes. Key drivers to performance were the continued decline in the price of European energy markets, most notably in carbon emissions and natural gas. Long equity positions generally benefited from improved sentiment. Gains in FX were driven by long USD crosses due to diminishing prospects of near-term rate cuts. Fixed income exposures were challenged, and net exposure was reduced drastically by the end of the month. Systematic managers with more diversified alpha models were mostly positive for the month with gains in short fixed-income and FX positions despite modest losses from short exposure to agriculture and metals.

HFRI Macro Total Index:

MTD 2.68%

QTD 3.24%

YTD 3.24%

Endnotes

Strategy definitions

Equity Hedged managers generally use fundamental analysis to invest in publicly traded equities and seek to generate alpha through superior security selection. Portfolio construction is driven primarily by bottom-up fundamental research; top-down analysis may also be applied. Sub-strategies include: Fundamental, Equity Event, and Opportunistic Trading.

Trading strategies are generally top-down in nature and often driven by econometric and macroeconomic research. These strategies may utilize financial instruments, such as foreign exchange, equities, rates, sovereign debt, currencies, and commodities to express a manager's view. In executing different approaches, managers may use either fundamental or quantitative models or a combination of both. Sub-strategies include: Systematic, Discretionary and Commodities.

Relative value is a broad category, generally encompassing strategies that are non-fundamental and non-directional, and often quantitatively driven. Managers in this strategy typically use arbitrage to exploit mispricings and other opportunities in various asset classes, geographies, and time horizons. Managers frequently focus on capturing the spread between two assets, while maintaining neutrality to other factors, for example to geography, changes in interest rates, equity market movement, and currencies, to name a few examples. Sub-strategies include: Fixed Income Relative Value, Agency MBS, Quantitative Equity, Cap Structure/Vol Arb and Merger Arbitrage.

In Credit/Income strategies, managers utilize credit analysis to evaluate potential investments and use debt or debt-linked instruments to execute their investment theses. Their approach can be either fundamental, quantitative, or a combination of both. Sub-strategies include: Distressed, Corporate Long/Short, Asset-Backed, Reinsurance / ILS, CLO/Corporate Lending and Other Income.
Other: This category contains investment approaches that are outside of the mainstream hedge fund strategies (Equity Hedged, Credit/Income, Relative Value, and Trading). The category includes nice investment approaches. Money Market funds and cash strategies are also included in this category, as are Liquidating/Side Pockets.

Risk Parity generally focuses on the passive allocation of risk, rather than of capital, in an attempt to provide a higher Sharpe ratio alternative to the traditional 60% stock / 40% bond portfolio through the use of a wider range of uncorrelated assets, low leverage, and low equity risk. Please note, while an alternative to traditional asset allocation, Risk Parity is not a hedge fund Strategy.

Index descriptions

The use of indices is for illustrative purposes only. Unlike the Fund, some indices are unmanaged, are not available for direct investment and are not subject to management fees and other fees and expenses. The Fund does not restrict its investments to securities in the indices described. No index is directly comparable to the investment strategy of the Fund. Information about the index is derived from sources that we believe to be reliable, but we have not independently verified them and do not warrant as to its accuracy or completeness.

The Barclays Corporate High Yield Index covers the universe of fixed rate, non-investment grade debt. Pay-in-kind (PIK) bonds, Eurobonds, and debt issues from countries designated as emerging markets (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, etc.) are excluded, but Canadian and global bonds (SEC registered) of issuers in non-EMG countries are included. Original issue zeroes, step-up coupon structures, and 144-As are also included.

The Barclays Global Aggregate Index provides a broad-based measure of the global investment-grade fixed income markets. The three major components of this index are the U.S. Aggregate, the Pan-European Aggregate, and the Asian-Pacific Aggregate Indices. The index also includes Eurodollar and Euro-Yen corporate bonds, Canadian government, agency and corporate securities, and USD investment grade 144A securities.

The Citigroup Broad Investment Grade Bond Index is an unmanaged index generally representative of the performance of the investment-grade corporate and U.S. government bonds.

The Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Index Total Return index is comprised of futures contracts on 19 physical commodities. It reflects the return on fully collateralized futures positions and is quoted in USD.

The HFRI Equity Hedge Total Index is equally weighted performance index. The HFRI is broken down into four main strategies, each with multiple sub-strategies. This index represents the Equity Hedged strategy, which includes funds who maintain positions both long and short in primarily equity and equity derivative securities. A wide variety of investment processes can be employed to arrive at an investment decision, including both quantitative and fundamental techniques; strategies can be broadly diversified or narrowly focused on specific sectors and can range broadly in terms of levels of net exposure, leverage employed, holding period, concentrations of market capitalizations and valuation ranges of typical portfolios. Equity Hedged managers would typically maintain at least 50%, and may in some cases be substantially entirely invested in equities, both long and short.

The HFRI Event-Driven (Total) Index is an equally weighted performance index. The HFRI is broken down into four main strategies, each with multiple sub-strategies. This index represents the Event Driven strategy, which is also known as corporate life cycle investing. The constituents of this index are funds investing in opportunities created by significant transactional events of a wide variety, including but not limited to spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, security issuance, bankruptcy reorganizations, recapitalizations and share buybacks. Event Driven exposure includes a combination of sensitivities to equity markets, credit markets and idiosyncratic, company specific developments.

HFRI FOF: Conservative Index FOFs classified as "conservative" exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: seeks consistent returns by primarily investing in funds that generally engage in more "conservative" strategies such as Equity Market Neutral, Fixed Income Arbitrage, and Convertible Arbitrage.

The HFRI FOF: Diversified Index includes fund of funds classified as "diversified." Fund of funds classified as "diversified" exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: invests in a variety of strategies among multiple managers; historical annual return and/or a standard deviation generally similar to the HFRI Fund of Fund Composite index.

The HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index is an equally weighted performance index broken down into 37 different categories by strategy. There is no required asset-size minimum for fund inclusion in the HFRI and there is no required length of time a fund must be actively trading before inclusion in the HFRI.

The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index is a global, equal-weighted index of over 2,000 single-manager funds that report to HFR Database. Constituent funds report monthly net of all fees performance in US Dollar and have a minimum of USD 50 Million under management or a twelve (12) month track record of active performance. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index does not include Funds of Hedge Funds.

The HFRI Macro Total Index is equally weighted performance index. The HFRI are broken down into four main strategies, each with multiple sub-strategies. This index represents the Macro strategy, which involves investing by making leveraged bets on anticipated price movements of stock markets, interest rates, foreign exchange and physical commodities. Macro managers employ a "top-down" global approach, and may invest in any market using any instrument to participate in expected market movements. These movements may result from forecasted shifts in world economies, political fortunes or global supply and demand for resources, both physical and financial. Exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives are often used to magnify these price movements.

The HFRI Macro: Systematic Diversified Index is equally weighted performance index. The HFRI are broken down into four main strategies, each with multiple sub-strategies. The HFRI Macro: Systematic Diversified Index represents the Systematic Diversified sub-strategy, which involves investing by employing mathematical, algorithmic and technical models, with little or no influence of individuals over the portfolio positioning. Managers in these strategies employ an investment process designed to identify opportunities in markets exhibiting trending or momentum characteristics across individual instruments or asset classes. The quantitative aspect of the investment process is focused on identifying statistically robust or technical patterns in the return series of the asset, and typically highly liquid instruments. Systematic managers maintain shorter holding periods than either discretionary or mean reverting approaches. Although some systematic strategies seek to employ counter trend models, the strategy tends to benefit most from an environment characterized by persistent, discernable trending behavior.

The HFRI Relative Value (Total) Index is equally weighted performance index, utilized by numerous hedge fund managers as a benchmark for their own hedge funds. The HFRI are broken down into four main strategies, each with multiple sub-strategies. This index represents the Relative Value Arbitrage strategy, which attempts to take advantage of relative pricing discrepancies between instruments involving equities, debt, options and futures. Managers may use mathematical, fundamental, or technical analysis to determine misvaluations. Securities may be mispriced relative to the underlying security, related securities, groups of securities, or the overall market. Many funds use leverage and seek opportunities globally. Arbitrage strategies include dividend arbitrage, pairs trading, options arbitrage and yield curve trading.

The J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index is the most widely-used measure of performance of leading government bond markets. The indices measure the total, principal, and interest returns in each market and can be reported in 18 different currencies. By including only traded issues, the Index provides a realistic measure of market performance for international investors

The MSCI World Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets. As of June 2007 the MSCI World Index consisted of the following 23 developed market country indices: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The MSCI EMF Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets

The MSCI World Total Return Index uses the same methodology as the MSCI USD World Index but also includes reinvestment of dividends. Net Dividends: This series approximates the minimum possible dividend reinvestment. The dividend is reinvested after deduction of withholding tax, applying the rate to non-resident individuals who do not benefit from double taxation treaties. MSCI uses withholding tax rates applicable to Luxembourg holding companies, as Luxembourg applies the highest rates. The index performance has been translated into the feeder currency using the applicable daily currency exchange rate from Bloomberg.

The Nikkei 225 JPY Index Stock Average is a price-weighted average of 225 top-rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Standard and Poor's 500 Index (S&P500) is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks. The index is designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

S&P GSCI Total Return Index is a fully-collateralized index, showing total return an investor would receive from S&P GSCI excess return plus T-bill return on the collateral. Its components are updated on a yearly basis and include energy, industrial metals, precious metals, livestock, and agricultural commodities. The S&P GSCI can offer a benchmark for investment performance in the commodity markets.

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For Canada: Services to Canadian persons for any strategy herein are provided by UBS Asset Management (Canada) Inc., a Nova Scotia corporation and a member of the UBS Asset Management business division of UBS AG, a publicly traded Swiss bank (NYSE: UBS). UBS Asset Management (Canada) Inc. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS AG and is registered as a portfolio manager and exempt market dealer (in all provinces of Canada), commodity trading manager (Ontario), adviser commodity futures (Manitoba) and investment fund manager (Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland), all pursuant to Canadian securities law. This document can be distributed in Canada to Accredited Investors who qualify as Permitted Clients only. UBS O'Connor LLC may be considered a connected or related issuer of UBS Asset Management (Canada) Inc. in connection with a distribution of the strategy herein to investors in Canada.

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