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Portfolio Manager

Front Street Strategic Yield Fund Limited

Fund manager:
Front Street Investment Management

The Fund will obtain exposure to the Portfolio which is focused primarily on convertible debentures and warrants of Canadian issuers and, to a lesser extent, merger arbitrage. The Portfolio will be actively managed by Front Street Investment Management Inc., using interest yielding and hedging strategies. Over the course of an economic cycle, the goal is to generate consistent tax advantaged returns on a quarterly basis.

The portfolio is managed by Frank Mersch and Eric Dzuba of Front Street Capital and will employ top down macroeconomic and quantitative analysis to execute on the investment strategy.

Market Price

Symbol Date Close price
FSS.TO 05.16.2013 $5.01

Returns 4.30.2013*

1 month Year-to-Date 1 year 3 year 5 year 10 year CAGR
-4.2% -16.7% -48.1% n/a n/a n/a -13.8%
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Investment objectives:
(i) to provide holders of Equity Shares (“Shareholders”) with quarterly tax-advantaged cash
distributions;
and
(ii) to maximize risk adjusted returns to Shareholders, consisting primarily of tax-advantaged
distributions, while preserving capital.

Sector Allocation

as at 9/28/2012

Top Ten Holdings

as at 9/28/2012; listed alphabetically

  • ADVANTAGE OIL & GAS 5.0% 01/30/15
  • AECON GROUP INC 7% 09/30/14
  • CANWEL BUILDINGS 5.85% 04/30/17
  • CHORUS AVIATION 9.5% 12/31/14
  • FIRST SERVICE CORP 6.5% 12/15/14
  • HARVEST ENERGY 7.5% 05/31/15
  • JUST ENERGY GROUP 6% 06/30/17
  • NEW GOLD WARRANTS C. NOV 2012
  • RUSSEL METALS INC. 7.75% 09/30/16
  • URANIUM ONE 5% 03/13/15
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† NAV+distributions includes distributions since inception date of June 1, 2010
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