The investment of objective of the fund is to designed to maximize absolute returns through the purchase and sale of listed shares primarily in Canadian issuers and achieve above-average returns each year independent of the performance of the S&P/TSX Total Return Index and mitigating overall market risk of the portfolio through various hedging strategies.

The fund manger follows a "bottom up" value investing strategy and selects both long and short securities using fundamental analysis. This approach is research intensive including analyzing company specific fundamentals, interviewing management and studying industry dynamics.

The fund also has the following characteristics:

  • Fund participates in merger arbitrage
  • Fund participates in special situation arbitrage
  • Fund participate in select IPO offerings and private placement
  • Fund participates in investing in U.S.A. Hong Kong, and China listed highly liquid small-mid cap stocks
  • Fund participates in investing in hedge funds
  • Fund participates in investing in hedge funds and China focused PE/PIPE Fund.
  • Leverage portfolio assets to a maximum of 2:1