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Opalesque Exclusive: Australian hedge fund, mostly up when markets down, looks to increase assets Australia's Eclectic Capital Management retuned net 0.5% for the month of December and 13.4% for 2007, according to an investor communication obtained by Opalesque.

The manager underlined that "with the market down 2.6% this month we were up 0.5%, we again showed our ability to make money in negative months and protect investors capital. There were four negative months in 2007 cumulatively taking 7.75% off the index and we made money in every month adding 3.76% in the same periods."

The fund, which is distributed onshore and offshore through Sydney-based Hatfield Liptak (a href=mailto:damien@hatfieldliptak.com>damien@hatfieldliptak.com) , maintains that "when market conditions become harder we traditionally do well. In 2001 when the index was up only 2% we added 16% and in 2002 we added 14% when the index fell 11.5%." Hatfield added that January has been a disaster (so far)for Australian Equities with the market at the time of writing being down 15% whilst Eclectic are down 3.5%."

In 2007 the ASX 500 rallied 13.7%, however Eclectic said they matched that performance with only half of the volatility. The fund, which was launched in February 2001, is "actively looking to increase the funds under management.".

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