For the year to 30/09/2011, all Salus Alpha Funds clearly outperformed global equity markets in a difficult environment.

The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage had a performance of +7.71% for the year to date until 9/30/2011, while the US S&P 500 Index lost 10.04%, and the German DAX30 index lost -0.42% in the same period. This is an outperformance against the S&P 500 Index of +17.75% and against the DAX 30 Index of +28.13%.

Other products managed by Salus Alpha performed as follows for the year to date until 9/30/2011:  Salus Alpha Event Driven +1.87%; Salus Alpha Equity Hedged +5.80%; Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage +7.71%  

In such a difficult market environment, this outperformance results from the employment of an active management approach and from the diversification over numerous strategies and substrategies.