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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026668
Boothbay 2016 Q4 Letter
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February 16, 2017 In the fourth quarter of 2016, Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies, LP (the “Fund”) earned a net return of approximately +0.04%. 1,2 Since the Fund opened on July 1, 2014, it has returned 16.10%. 1,2 In that period, the Fund’s largest monthto-month drawdown has been -1.4%, versus -8.9% for the S&P 500, -1.5% for the HFRX Absolute Return Index, -8.9% for the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index and -5.3% for the HFRX Market Neutral Index. Performance and Commentary October November December 2016 ITD Sharpe ITD* Sortino ITD* Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies, L.P -0.14% -0.05% 0.23% 3.84% 16.09% 2.25 6.37 S&P 500 -1.94% 3.42% 1.82% 9.54% 14.21% 0.51 0.93 HFRX : Equity Market Neutral -0.13% -0.04% -1.07% -5.08% 2.51% 0.23 0.48 HFRX : Absolute Return -0.39% -0.16% 0.20% 0.31% 2.13% 0.36 0.98 HFRX : Global Hedge Fund -0.57% 0.87% 0.86% 2.50% -3.50% -0.42 -0.43 * For Sharpe/Sortino Ratio calculations, 1-Month LIBOR is set as the risk free rate. We ended 2016 with a slightly positive quarter, bringing net performance for the year to +3.84%. Consistent with the trend seen earlier in the year, 2016 has been described by investors and financial media as among the worst years for multi-manager multi-strategy firms, on both an absolute and risk-adjusted return basis. While we consider earning +3.84% to be disappointing for our strategy on an absolute return basis, doing so with a maximum drawdown of 1.4%, and in what was a challenging environment for low-net exposure relative value strategies, leaves us viewing 2016 as a “good” bad year. For a second consecutive year, the Fund generated positive net returns overall on the days when the S&P 500 Index was negative. The S&P had 121 losing days in 2016 (producing losses of over -66% in total) 3 and on those days, we were positive approximately 55% of the time, and generated almost half of our total net returns for the year. Given that we aim to be a protector of capital in markets that most managers will lose capital, […]