Performance for April 2009 of +2.03%; Performance since start of +31.01%
Amsterdam, May 19, 2009 – DQS Absolute Return Fund, a quantitative multi-strategy hedge fund, today announced that the results for April 2009 are +2.03%. The performance of the fund since the start in August 2006 is +31.01%.

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: “The broad portfolio of our strategies proved this month to be valuable again. The slightly negative performance in our equity and commodity strategies was more than offset by the performance in the index strategies.”