Liberty Funds Group

Liberty Funds Group currently offers the following investment products:

Liberty Commodity Partners (LCP) provides unique exposure to approximately thirty of the world’s most liquid commodity markets. The quantitative risk management techniques utilized by the Fund allows the strategy to capture commodity prices being driven higher by fundamental market forces, and to preserve investment capital by dynamically moving to a neutral position when those markets move in a prolonged downward direction. The Fund also positions itself to capitalize on investment opportunities that arise in the inefficiencies within a commodity market’s term structure. The strategy employs a disciplined trading approach that is designed to tightly manage volatility to achieve an annualized standard deviation of 15%. The system uses a series of screens that are adaptive and can change with time to reflect the underlying individual dynamics of the different commodity markets being traded. The Fund employs a low use of leverage of typically 1.3 to 1.5 times. The strategy’s returns have little if any correlation to the equity markets, and exhibit low correlation to other Commodity Trading Advisors.

Liberty Global Fund (Global) engages in trading of futures contracts (both tangible commodities and currencies) and other commodity interests such as options and forward contracts. The fund is managed by John W. Henry & Company, Inc (JWH). The fund uses a broad spectrum of worldwide futures, swaps, and forward markets to include agricultural, currency, energy, interest rate, metal and stock index contracts. The philosophy of the Fund has been based on the premise that market prices, rather than market fundamentals, are the key aggregator of information necessary to make good investment decisions. The Fund focuses on generating returns excepting higher levels of volatility.

Liberty St. James (LSJ) is a long-only equity strategy managed as a Registered Investment Advisor. Liberty St. James manages individual investor accounts while adhering to a strict value discipline with an objective of achieving absolute returns under all market conditions. When determining a company’s stock to purchase, we first determine the intrinsic value of the company. We calculate a company’s intrinsic value using discounted cash flow models, detailed analysis of the balance sheet, and a thorough understanding of the business model, competitors, management and future growth prospects. We purchase the stock when the company’s stock price is at a 40% discount to its calculated intrinsic value. We then sell the stock as it approaches it’s intrinsic value. Additionally, we follow strict sell rules to limit our downside risk on the stock should the stock price trade below its purchase price. Additionally, we apply risk grades to each individual stock, to industry sectors, and to the overall portfolio in order to manage the Fund’s volatility.