
Separately Managed Client Accounts
2005-2007 Performance Report*

Cognition Capital Management, LLC
2005-2007 Performance
Separately Managed Client Accounts
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Returns |
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Performance vs. Benchmark |
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Gross of Fees |
Net of Fees |
S&P 500
Total Return |
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Gross |
Net |
| 1st Qtr 2005 |
0.93% |
0.78% |
-2.15% |
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3.08% |
2.93% |
| 2nd Qtr 2005 |
1.16% |
0.96% |
1.37% |
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-0.21% |
-0.41% |
| 3rd Qtr 2005 |
3.55% |
3.32% |
3.61% |
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-0.06% |
-0.28% |
| 4th Qtr 2005 |
0.72% |
0.48% |
2.09% |
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-1.37% |
-1.61% |
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| Full Year 2005 |
6.48% |
5.63% |
4.91% |
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1.57% |
0.72% |
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| 1st Qtr 2006
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6.10% |
5.85% |
4.21% |
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1.90% |
1.64% |
| 2nd Qtr 2006 |
3.14% |
2.90% |
-1.44% |
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4.58% |
4.34% |
| 3rd Qtr 2006 |
4.89% |
4.64% |
5.67% |
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-0.78% |
-1.02% |
| 4th Qtr 2006 |
5.43% |
5.18% |
6.70% |
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-1.27% |
-1.52% |
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| Full Year 2006 |
21.02% |
19.87% |
15.80% |
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5.23% |
4.07% |
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| 1st Qtr 2007 |
6.58% |
6.32% |
0.64% |
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5.94% |
5.68% |
| 2nd Qtr 2007 |
10.67% |
10.43% |
6.28% |
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4.39% |
4.15% |
| 3rd Qtr 2007 |
0.91% |
0.64% |
2.03% |
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-1.13% |
-1.39% |
| 4th Qtr 2007 |
-4.72% |
-4.96% |
-3.33% |
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-1.39% |
-1.63% |
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| Full Year 2007 |
13.41% |
12.29% |
5.49% |
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7.91% |
6.80% |
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3-Year Return
(2005-2007) |
46.14% |
42.19% |
28.16% |
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17.98% |
14.03% |
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PERFORMANCE DISCLOSURES
The
performance results reported in this document reflect the investment
returns of the separately managed client accounts of Cognition Capital
Management, LLC during the period from January 2005 to December 2007. Partial year returns have not been annualized.
Returns
reported for Cognition Capital’s separately managed client accounts are
presented both gross of advisory fees and net of advisory fees and
trading expenses (except, in the case of client accounts, deferred
sales charges incurred on sales of assets transferred in from
non-Cognition accounts), and gross of federal and state taxes. Leverage
and derivatives were used in some client accounts to achieve the
returns presented. The performance results include cash held in the
accounts during the period and reflect the reinvestment of dividends.
GLOBAL INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (“GIPS”)
Cognition
Capital is currently engaged in the process of implementing the Global
Investment Performance Standards (“GIPS”) for performance reporting. As
part of this implementation, performance figures for all periods have
been recalculated in conformance with GIPS-compliant methodology and
therefore may not agree in all cases with figures previously reported
by Cognition.
The principal difference between
the GIPS-compliant method used in preparing this report and the
methodology previously used involves the treatment of deposits and
withdrawals made during the periods reported. In this report,
adjustments for deposits and withdrawals have been based on the dates
the transactions actually occurred. In previous reports, adjustments
for deposits and withdrawals were made on the basis of a “mid-point”
assumption.
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES USED IN SEPARATELY MANAGED ACCOUNTS
Cognition Capital’s separately managed client accounts are invested according to one of two basic strategies: the “Large Cap Focus” strategy, and the “Broader Market” strategy.
The accounts of clients electing to employ the Large Cap Focus
strategy are invested in the stocks of companies with market caps of at
least $1 billion. They may also be invested in Exchange-Traded Funds
(“ETF’s”) and other investments.
The accounts of clients electing to employ the Broader Market
strategy may be invested in stocks with market caps as low as $10
million, provided that, in Cognition Capital’s judgment, sufficient
market liquidity exists to fairly allocate trades in economically
feasible quantities among client accounts. Broader Market accounts may also be invested in ETF’s and other investments.
In
practice, during the periods reported herein there has been significant
overlap in the investment selections made in these two types of
accounts, and, as a result, relatively insignificant differences in
their performance. Therefore, returns for the two strategies are not
presented separately. The overlap in investment selections is partly
due to Cognition Capital’s judgment concerning the relative
availability of good opportunities in large cap stocks versus small cap
stocks in different market environments, which may change in the
future, possibly leading to greater differences in performance between
the two strategies.
Generally speaking,
different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and
there can be no assurance that any specific investment strategy will be
profitable.
DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCE AMONG INDIVIDUAL CLIENT ACCOUNTS
Cognition
Capital attempts to accommodate individual client guidelines and
preferences regarding investment choices and risk exposure insofar as
it is able. These investor-imposed guidelines and restrictions on
Cognition Capital’s discretion, in addition to differences in account
size, timing of transactions, economic and market conditions prevailing
at the time of investment, use of leverage, securities purchased and
sold, securities transferred into accounts by clients, inception dates
of accounts, and other factors, may lead to different results from
those reported herein, as well as differences in performance among
individual accounts.
MARKET CONDITIONS
The performance shown is for the stated time periods only; due to market volatility, current performance may be different.
BENCHMARK
The
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (“S&P 500”) has been used as a
comparative equity benchmark for the periods presented. The S&P 500
is a market capitalization-weighted index of 500 common stocks chosen
for market size, liquidity, and industry group representation to
represent U.S. equity performance. The S&P 500 reflects the
reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. Broad-based
securities indices such as the S&P 500 are unmanaged and are not
subject to fees and expenses typically associated with managed
accounts. Investments cannot be made directly in a broad-based
securities index.
Since the S&P 500 focuses
on the large-cap segment of the market, the it may not be the ideal
benchmark for the strategy employed in client accounts but was selected
since it is generally considered representative of the U.S. stock
market.. Many of the companies purchased for Cognition Capital’s client
accounts have market caps ranging from $250 million (or less in some
cases) up to $2.5 billion, which many consider to be small cap stocks.
The companies represented in the S&P 500 are subject to a market
cap minimum of $4 billion and are generally considered large caps. The
market cap criterion of the S&P 500 has shifted over time.
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