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Performance Report: CSL Active Long/Short Programme

11 Oct 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

CSL's long/short programme records its best results ever with gains coming from a broad range of underlying commodities.

Performance Report: CSL Active Long Only Programme

11 Oct 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Commodity Strategies long only programme produces a strong return as commodities remain strong.

September results reflect strong equity markets

11 Oct 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

With the ASX200 rallying over 5% in September, and the S&P over 8%, initial results based on 20% of results to date have seen some strong results.

Performance Report: Merricks Soft Commodity Fund

30 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Merricks' Soft Commodity Fund produces strong result in August as positions in wheat drive performance gains.

Performance Report: Merricks Capital Multi-Strategy Fund

23 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Merricks Capital\\'s multi strategy fund benefits from positive returns in metals & mining, commodity futures, and food products sectors to post gain of 2.78%.

Performance Report: Herschel Absolute Return Fund

15 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Herschel's Absolute Return Fund rose 0.09% in August as the domestic reporting season focused investors attention and the ASX200 fell 1.99%

Performance Report: Headland Global Diversified Fund

14 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Positions in Bonds and Commodities propel Headland\\'s Global Macro fund to a positive return of +7.73% in August, taking 12 month performance to +6.70%.

Performance Report: Mathews Velocity Fund

14 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Mathews Capital's Velocity Fund estimates net August return of +6.35% to take accumulated return above the previous high water mark as leverage to gold produciesover half of the month's result.

Performance Report: Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust

14 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Fortitude benefits from gains in M&A, Derivatives and Yield portfolios to report theirbest monthly performance in 12 months.

Performance Report: Bennelong Securities Long Short Equity Fund

12 Sep 2010 - Australian Fund Monitors

Bennelong reported a loss in August of -0.96% against the ASX200 which fell -1.99% as the market was dominated by earnings releases of mixed quality.

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Report Date	10 October 2010
Manager	Commodity Strategies
Fund Name	CSL Active Long/Short Programme
Strategy	Commodities/CTA
Latest Return Date	September 2010
Latest Return	11.05%
Latest 6 Months	-3.52%
Latest 12 Months	3.96%
Latest 24 Months	24.87%
Annualised Since Inception	15.07%
Inception Date	30 September 2007
FUM (millions)	AU$19
Fund Overview	The CSL Active Long/Short Programme is an absolute return focused fund seeking an efficient exposure to commodities. The fund operates in deeply liquid global commodity markets using systematic processes that enable it to be long or short in any individual market with a modest level of gearing employed. The portfolio systems manage positions in trending or mean-reverting markets as they rise or fall, with a core emphasis on risk management and capital preservation across every aspect of the process.
Manager Comments	Please note: the returns for the CSL long short programme find that of management and performance fees. Performance was strong across the boardbut particularly so in silver, cotton, and corn, each of which contributed over 1%to the overall result. Losses were minimal, both in number and size, and liimited to wheat and natural gas.
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Report Date	10 October 2010
Manager	Commodity Strategies
Fund Name	CSL Active Long Only Programme
Strategy	Commodities/CTA
Latest Return Date	September 2010
Latest Return	7.53%
Latest 6 Months	0.06%
Latest 12 Months	8.39%
Latest 24 Months	26.35%
Annualised Since Inception	12.22%
Inception Date	30 November 1999
FUM (millions)	AU$141
Fund Overview	The CSL Active Long Only programme seeks to achieve a long term total return that exceeds the return in the underlying benchmark, the Reuters Jefferies CRB Index while maintaining lower volatility than the benchmark. The Dow Jones-AIG and the GSCI are also monitored. The fund is unleveraged and operates in deeply liquid global commodity markets using systematic processes that enable it to be long in any individual market or allocated to cash, depending on the prevailing yields. The portfolio systems manage positions in trending or mean-reverting markets, with a core emphasis on risk management and capital preservation across every aspect of the process.
Manager Comments	Please note performance figures above are gross of fees: In a strong month returns were broadly based across a range of commodities with particularly strong results coming from cotton, silver, corn and the energy sector (heating oil, gas oil and crude). Losses were minimal and restricted to Cocoa, wheat and natural gas. Overall out of 24 commodities traded, only four lost ground for the month.
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Report Date	29 September 2010
Manager	Merricks Capital
Fund Name	Merricks Soft Commodity Fund
Strategy	Commodities/CTA
Latest Return Date	August 2010
Latest Return	4.04%
Latest 6 Months	9.41%
Latest 12 Months	22.72%
Latest 24 Months	37.83%
Annualised Since Inception	13.86%
Inception Date	01 January 2008
FUM (millions)	AU$10
Fund Overview	The Merricks Capital Soft Commodities Fund focuses on Soft Commodities and allows investors to get direct exposure to Soft Commodities which includes, wheat, corn, soy oil, canola oil, and sugar. The Merricks Capital team have a long history and involvement in the Soft Commodities sector and bring these years of specialised knowledge and experience to managing the Fund. The objective of the Fund is to find outstanding investment opportunities in the Soft Commodities sector and to also take advantage of mispricing between commodities. All investments are based on bottom up fundamental research and the Fund limits directional exposure of its investments through a strict process of portfolio construction and risk management. Trading strategies include calendar spreads, substitute spreads and basis trades and the Merricks Capital trading platform allows the Fund to trade on all markets (including ASX, CBOT, Euronext and Malaysia).
Manager Comments	Positions in wheat, including outright long, carry and spread trades provided investors in Merricks' Soft Commodity Fund solid returns in August to continue the fund's overall approach of seeking to provide attractive returns and low volatility with low correlation to equity markets.
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Report Date	22 September 2010
Manager	Merricks Capital
Fund Name	Merricks Capital Multi-Strategy Fund
Strategy	Multi Strategy
Latest Return Date	August 2010
Latest Return	2.78%
Latest 6 Months	1.61%
Latest 12 Months	2.44%
Latest 24 Months	3.49%
Annualised Since Inception	4.63%
Inception Date	01 January 2008
FUM (millions)	AU$35
Fund Overview	Merrick aims to generate absolute returns through a portfolio of investment strategies with low correlation, primarily in Asia. The fund uses a top down/bottom up approach to generate absolute returns through a portfolio of three lowly correlated underlying strategies: 1. Long Short Equities 2. Soft Commodities, and 3. Event Driven. The primary focus is on the industrials complex in Asia (Hong Kong, Japan and Australia) and Soft Commodities, which is also available as a standalone strategy if required.
Manager Comments	Merricks reported a delta adjusted exposure of +42.9% at month-end most of which came from the event driven book, while Soft Commodities and Long/Short Equity were both broadly neutral at -2.3% and +3.2% respectively.
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Report Date	15 September 2010
Manager	Herschel Asset Management
Fund Name	Herschel Absolute Return Fund
Strategy	Equity Long/Short
Latest Return Date	August 2010
Latest Return	0.09%
Latest 6 Months	-1.06%
Latest 12 Months	4.00%
Latest 24 Months	16.23%
Annualised Since Inception	14.19%
Inception Date	01 May 2006
FUM (millions)	AU$31
Fund Overview	The Herschel Absolute Return Fund is a long-short Australian equities fund which is expected to average 50% net long through an investment cycle. The objective of the fund is to achieve consistent, double-digit rates of return, with an over-arching philosophy of capital protection. The Fund will usually invest in a portfolio, consisting of both long and short positions, of securities of 15 to 45 companies.
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11 Oct 2010 - Performance Report: CSL Active Long/Short Programme

11 Oct 2010 - Performance Report: CSL Active Long Only Programme

11 Oct 2010 - September results reflect strong equity markets

30 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Merricks Soft Commodity Fund

23 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Merricks Capital Multi-Strategy Fund

15 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Herschel Absolute Return Fund

14 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Headland Global Diversified Fund

14 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Mathews Velocity Fund

14 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust

12 Sep 2010 - Performance Report: Bennelong Securities Long Short Equity Fund

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