Performance for August 2009 of +1.86%; Performance since start of +30.00%
Amsterdam, September 9, 2009 – DQS Absolute Return Fund, a quantitative multi-strategy hedge fund, today announced that the results for August 2009 are +1.86%. The performance of the fund since the start in August 2006 is +30.00%.

DQS Fund aims to invest in a broad range of exchange traded products in the United States and Europe. The fund has an active investment policy using statistical models, with a diversification across strategies, instruments, countries and sectors. Due to this policy the results of DQS Fund are above average; their returns are independent of market conditions, have an excellent reward/risk ratio and a low correlation with other assets.

DQS Fund manager John Hoek: “Although there are no clear trends in most commodity markets, our quantitative models were able to catch the trends in the products that did make a strong move. Both our commodity and index strategies contributed to this months performance.”