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On the fixed-income market, even though convertible bonds did not wipe out their exceptional gain in July, they did resume their downward slide (-0.81%). Regular bonds followed a more stable trend and managed a third consecutive month of gains (+0.84%). The Lehman Global Bond index yielded an even better return (+2.01%). After two months on the rise, the commodities market almost erased the previous month’s gain with a sharp drop (-4.89%). The dollar recovered partially (+1.79%) from a hectic summer period.

Similarly to its situation in June, and despite the losses of convertible bonds and a shrinking credit spread (-0.85%), the Convertible Arbitrage strategy took advantage of the plummeting stock market to manage a positive return (+1.25%) for a third consecutive month. Despite the losses on the commodities market but along with regular bonds, the CTA Global strategy managed a significant gain (+3.04%), its best since last November.

The poor performances of the stock market naturally impacted the equity-oriented strategies. After some comfortable gains in July, the Equity Market Neutral (-0.57%), Event-Driven (-0.29%) and Long/Short Equity (-0.96%) strategies all inevitably lost ground.

Curiously enough, despite its reduced exposure to the stock market, the Equity Market Neutral strategy was not the best performing among them. Conversely, the Fixed-Income Arbitrage strategy managed a significant profit (+0.99%).

Globally, the Fund-of-Fund strategy remained stable (+0.02%), clearly outperforming the S&P index.

(press release)

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