Investment Manager

Introduction

FourWinds Capital Management has been appointed Investment Manager of the Company. The Investment Manager is responsible for advising the Company on the overall management of the Company’s investments and for managing the Company’s cash and investments in fixed income instruments in accordance with the Company’s investment objective and policy and subject to the overall control and supervision of the Board.

FourWinds is a Cayman Islands exempted company with offices in Geneva, Boston, London and Hong Kong and wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States and England. FourWinds is a member of the National Futures Association and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a CPO.

The Investment Manager is primarily responsible for researching, selecting and monitoring the Company’s investments and making decisions on when and how much to invest in or withdraw from a particular investment, subject to the policies and control of the Board.

The Investment Manager focuses on the development of, and risk management of, investment vehicles forcommodities and real assets. The Investment Manager currently has four other products under management, namely the Zephyr Commodity Fund, Ceres Agricultural Fund Limited, Aqua Resources Fund Limited, and the Waste Resource Fund L.P.

The Zephyr Commodity Fund is a broadly diversified multi-manager, multi-strategy fund of funds that covers energy, metals and agriculture.

The Ceres Agriculture Fund Limited is a closed-ended fund which is listed on the Official List and traded on the LSE main Market for Listed Securities. It invests in an actively managed portfolio of primarily exchange-traded agricultural commodity contracts and derivatives.

The Aqua Resources Fund Limited is a closed-ended fund which is listed on the Official List and traded on the LSE main Market for Listed Securities. It invests in the full value chain of global water.

The  Waste Resource Fund is a specialist fund which invests in urban, industrial, and rural waste management. The program targets waste as a natural resource with a focus on high growth markets.


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