Amsterdam, July 17, 2009 – DQS Absolute Return Fund, a quantitative multi-strategy hedge fund, today announced that the results for June 2009 are -4.47%. The performance of the fund since the start in August 2006 is +34.0%.

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: ‘We can not avoid having a decrease in the net asset value sometimes. Our benchmark index, the BTop50, also shows a slightly negative performance for 2009. However, our results in general still show a strong upward trend.’