| Report Date | 30 January 2011 |
| Manager | Instinct Capital |
| Fund Name | Instinct Japan Opportunity Fund |
| Strategy | Equity Market Neutral |
| Latest Return Date | December 2010 |
| Latest Return | 3.74% |
| Latest 6 Months | 10.89% |
| Latest 12 Months | 35.21% |
| Latest 24 Months | |
| Annualised Since Inception | 38.06% |
| Inception Date | 01 December 2009 |
| FUM (millions) | |
| Fund Overview | The 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 Comments | Instinct's Japan Opportunity Fund continued the impressive run in their first calendar year of operations with another strong result in December, and returning over 35% for the year, to bring annualised performance since inception to 38.04%. |
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