Optimal follows a positive August with another positive month in September, while finding the speed of the market's rally difficult to match.

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

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

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

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%.

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

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%.

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.

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

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.