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30 Nov 2010 - Performance Report: Instinct Japan Opportunity Fund

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Report Date30 November 2010
ManagerInstinct Capital
Fund NameInstinct Japan Opportunity Fund
StrategyEquity Market Neutral
Latest Return DateOctober 2010
Latest Return1.56%
Latest 6 Months1.98%
Latest 12 Months0.00%
Latest 24 Months0.00%
Annualised Since Inception34.43%
Inception Date01 December 2009
FUM (millions)$45
Fund OverviewThe Instinct Japan Opportunity Fund is a Japanese Equity Event Driven Long Short Fund that operates on a market neutral basis. The Investment Process utilizes diverse strategies such as Special Situations, Fundamental Catalysts, Tactical Trading, Capital Raising and CB/Vol and seeks to deliver long term capital appreciation with minimal correlation to market indicies.

The Fund has a forward looking approach and specialises in trading highly liquid listed Japanese companies, and is focused on short term events only.

The fund's objectives are to return 3-5% per trade, with a 5-10 day holding period for each position, and a win/loss ratio per trade of 70% to provide investors with a targeted annual return of 20-25%.
Manager CommentsInstinct felt that the focus in Japanese markets continued to be the strength of the yen, intervention by the BOJ and what measures the US would take in QE2. During the month Japan announced a further easing which Instinct felt was an example of the government making the point that they were working with the BOJ to fight the strength of the Yen, took this is a positive for Japanese equities and adjusted the fund's gross position accordingly.

Over the course of the month the fund's exposure remained broadly market neutral with the Tactical Trading and Fundamental Catalyst books having the largest exposure. The fund continued to avoid small cap stocks of less than US$1 billion market cap, while just over 44% of exposure was to large cap stocks of greater than $5 billion.
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