Performance for September 2009 of -1.02%; Performance since start of +28.7%
Amsterdam, October 16, 2009 – DQS Absolute Return Fund, a quantitative multi-strategy hedge fund, today announced that the results for September 2009 are -1.02%. The performance of the fund since the start in August 2006 is +28.7%.

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: ‘While the market for quantitative stock strategies is still challenging, we were able to profit from the trend following strategies on commodities.’