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May 25, 2022
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April Mutual Fund Performance

April was the worst month for equities since March 2020, with the S&P down -8.9% month over month. Thankfully there’s bonds to fall back on right? For those living under an igneous formation, the inflation-Fed theme continues to provoke selling in equities and a tightening of credit (pushing bond prices down). As  elsewhere reported , this is the worst bond market since 1842. So, no, bonds aren’t helping. The 60/40 portfolio feels like a single asset at this point. This current market efficiently separates the sheep from the goats. As you review your diversification strategy, make sure to incorporate strategies whose return drivers aren’t structurally correlated to one another, i.e., combine offense (stocks, bonds) with defense (volatility, trend following). Trend following strategies, especially those without equity beta,  continued their strong performance . The funds below bear this out.

Hedged Equity
Catalyst Buffered Shield Fund I SHIIX -5.40% -12.19% $88,640,770
Rational Equity Armor Fund Instl HDCTX -5.74% -4.82% $72,748,184
EAVOL NASDAQ-100 Volatil Overlay Risk A CLPAX -10.67% -16.56% $15,882,143
Certeza Convex Core A CNVEX -7.28% -22.03% $7,455,806
Equities + Managed Futures
Catalyst/Millburn Hedge Strategy I MBXIX 0.93% 5.19% $3,616,718,622
Standpoint Multi-Asset Institutional BLNDX 1.24% 7.08% $317,337,767
Active Fixed Income
Catalyst/Stone Beach Income Opp I IOXIX -0.55% -0.67% $19,019,745
Catalyst Multi-Strategy I ACXIX -1.52% 3.28% $5,471,817
All Weather / Multi-Strat
Rational/ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allc I RDMIX 4.36% 11.62% $100,593,819
Astor Macro Alternative I GBLMX -2.40% -4.69% $41,780,518
Catalyst/Teza Algorithmic Alloc I TEZIX -5.16% -17.52% $5,077,339
Catalyst/Millburn Dynamic Cmdty Stgy I DCXIX 0.71% 38.89% $25,891,947
Options
Catalyst/Warrington Strategic Program A CWXAX 1.18% 2.88% $106,434,210
AlphaCentric Premium Opportunity A HMXAX -4.57% -7.52% $161,978,515
Rational Tactical Return Instl HRSTX -0.12% -0.29% $298,633,776
Commodities
SilverPepper Cmdty Strats Glb Macro Inst SPCIX 2.16% 25.27% $225,934,336
Direxion Auspice Broad Commodity Strategy COM (ETF) 1.48% 17.16% $424,899,413
SDCI USCF SummerHaven Dynamic Commodity SDCI (ETF) 7.53% 37.30% $10,160,651
Managed Futures
AXS Chesapeake Strategy I EQCHX 6.31% 21.19% $37,140,980

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