Alternative Strategies (non-Prospectus)
Multi-manager / Multi-strategy
The BB Fund aims to provide unitholders with long-term capital appreciation through exposure, ultimately, to the returns of Boothbay Diversified Alpha Master Fund Ltd. (the “Boothbay Master Fund”), which is managed by Boothbay Fund Management, LLC based in New York. The Boothbay Master Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of investment managers managing niche strategies that target low correlation to the S&P 500 and high risk adjusted returns. There is no restriction on strategies, but they may include fundamental long/short, capital markets, commodity and currency arbitrage, event driven, fixed income and quantitative market neutral.
Sector-specific
The Bromma Resource Canada Access Fund (the “Fund”) is a resource-focused, predominantly equity-based fund whose investment objective is to provide shareholders with long-term capital appreciation via accessing the returns of the Cayman-domiciled Bromma Resource Fund Inc. (the “Master Fund”) managed by Bromma Asset Management, a Toronto-based natural resource-focused investment manager co-founded in 2019 by Harry Lundin.
Sector-specific
Capital Asset Income Fund is a Canadian trust established to focus on providing a steady stream of monthly distributions to investors by accessing the returns from the portfolios of residential mortgage loans held in two master funds.
Long-biased
ElevenFund is a short-term trading fund focused on the Canadian equity market. ElevenFund targets superior risk-adjusted returns compared to the TSX, as measured by the Sharpe and MAR (‘gain-to-pain’) ratios. The Fund places significant emphasis on liquidity, capital preservation and on crystallizing open profit positions. The Fund uses no leverage and does not invest in private securities.
Short biased equity
Libertas was designed to allow investors to benefit if there is a collapse in Canadian housing prices. The Fund uses fundamental top-down macroeconomic analysis combined with detailed bottom-up fundamental analysis and due diligence to determine individual securities that best express the Fund’s macroeconomic investment theme.
Trading-oriented long/short equity
LSQ Fund is an open-end investment quantitative fund whose objective is to generate positive risk-adjusted returns with low volatility and low correlation to the equity markets. The Fund focuses on North American listed equities and operates with very low net exposure to the market. The investment team conducts extensive quantitative analysis on all investment ideas and trades in a systematic fashion overlaid with management’s extensive trading experience.
Focuses on Special Purpose Acquisition Corporations (“SPACs”).
LSQ SPAC Fund is an open-end investment fund whose objective is to generate positive risk-adjusted returns with low volatility and low correlation to the equity markets by investing in publicly listed special purpose acquisition corporations (“SPACs”). SPACs are “blind pools” that raise capital through an initial public offering. The Fund will acquire a diversified portfolio of US listed SPACs through both IPOs and the secondary market. The Fund pays a monthly distribution – see Fund Details on the Fund web page for further details.
Multi-manager / Multi-strategy
The Fund provides unitholders with long-term capital appreciation through exposure to the returns of Millennium International Hedgefocus Fund Ltd. (the “iCapital International Fund”), which in turn provides exposure to the returns of Millennium International, Ltd. (the “Underlying Fund”).
Opportunistic event-driven
MMCAP is an event-driven fund that concentrates on small- to mid-sized corporate actions in Canada, the US and elsewhere, and seeks to exploit inefficiencies that are overlooked and/or not understood by larger market participants. The fund utilizes a broad range of strategies, including merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, warrant arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage, index arbitrage, event driven/special situations, convertibles, SPAC arbitrage, private investments and pairs trading.
Early-stage special situations
Teraz invests in a diversified portfolio of Canadian small and micro-cap equities. The Fund is long-biased, taking long positions in early stage companies run by successful entrepreneurs, including start-ups, listed cash-rich shells, merger and acquisition candidates as well as deep fundamental value and turnaround opportunities.