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Trade through the eyes of veteran Floor Yra Harris!

Target 10% - 12% annually in USD terms, with outperformance relative to industry benchmark indices at lower risk, and through businesses with strong corporate social responsibility (CSR) September 2019 programs that address environment, social and governance (ESG) factors towards socially responsible investing (SRI). cedarportfolio.com © The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 1 Disclaimer

• This information and material contained in this presentation is of a general nature and is intended for educational purposes only. Opinions expressed are subject to change without notice and are not intended as investment advice or to predict future performance. This presentation does not constitute a recommendation or a solicitation or offer of the purchase or sale of securities. Furthermore, this presentation does not endorse or recommend any tax, legal, or investment related strategy, trading related strategy or model portfolio. The future performance of an investment, trade, strategy or model portfolio cannot be deduced from past performance.

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• Current Challenges in Investing and Trading

• Our Approach to Investing and Trading

• Trading through the eyes of Veteran Floor Trader Yra Harris

• Investing through a unique powerful Approach

• Subscription Details – what you get

• Client focus => Institutions, Pension Funds, Banks, Wealth Management Firms, Investment Advisory Firms, Custodians, ETF Providers, Insurance Firms, HNWI

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 3 Current Challenges in Investing and Trading

How do you get How do you preserve How do you invest How do you real yield in an purchasing power in an environment mitigate potential environment of when central banks characterized by adverse risks essentially 0% around the world are ongoing central such as defaults, interest rates or intentionally bank and capital controls, negative real weakening their government protectionism, interest rates currencies? How do interventions and trade wars, bank (nominal interest you preserve ring-fencing account bail-ins, rates minus purchasing power in a regulations? nationalizations, inflation)? rising inflation climate change environment? and regulatory capture?

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 4 Unique Powerful Value Investing Approach to address the Challenges in Investing and Trading

Austrian School ASE Principles 14 Smart of Economics (Applicable to Investing Factors (ASE) and Trading)

The approach is based upon using the principles of the Austrian School of Economics (ASE) Smart Beta Factors towards investing and trading. The ASE is a school of thought initially developed from some backed by economists in Vienna Austria back in the 1870s. The ASE emphasizes savings and investment, with minimal debt and leverage, and maintains that policy changes which allow markets to studies indicating operate freely result in economic growth and wealth creation, whereas interventionist policies positive correlation are not friendly to the markets and result in economic stagnation and wealth destruction. Profit to equity opportunities exist when these changes are anticipated and interpreted properly, and when outperformance: identifying cash-flowing businesses characterized by innovation, longevity and growth in value. 7 Quantitative Factors +

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 7 Qualitative Factors 5 ASE Principles -> 7 Quantitative Smart Beta Factors

1 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon cash-flowing businesses

2 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon limited debt and leverage Each Factor with studies indicating 3 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon high positive correlation to equity 4 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon payout distribution outperformance

5 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon enduring operations 7 Positive 6 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon owner-operators Correlated Factors Taken Together in 7 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon stable or decreasing float Series – Powerful!

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 6 ASE Principles -> 7 Qualitative Smart Beta Factors

1 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon corporate social responsibility

2 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon alignment to economic trends

3 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon alignment to millennial trends Qualitative Factors taken into account 4 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon uniqueness and scarcity

5 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon innovation

6 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon risk mitigation

7 ASE Principle - Value is placed upon holding value/purchasing power

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 7 Assessing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Factors

 We have a dual focus on businesses with both great financial and socially responsible performance; We see this dual focus as providing mutual synergy: o Increasing profitability grows the stakeholder pie, enhancing socially responsible performance to all stakeholders o Implementing responsible corporate actions and activities with respect to a strong CSR program and ESG Factors has a positive influence on financial performance;

 We incorporate the assessment of strong CSR programs and ESG factors into our investment analysis and decision-making processes;

 We seek disclosure relating to CSR by the businesses we have in our model portfolios.

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 8 More on CSR and ESG Factors

We emphasize businesses with strong CSR programs that address ESG factors towards sustainability and social development with industry best practices in corporate governance. Here are some of the initiatives, standards and best practice processes that we assess towards alignment and compliance:

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 9 Backtesting Results from 2005 on Global Equities portfolio - Outperformance relative to MSCI World Index

MSCI WORLD M ETRIC P O R T F O L I O INDEX

Start Balance $10,000 $10,000 End Balance $79,582 $16,824 End Balance (inflation $59,144 $12,502 adjusted) CAGR 15.48% 3.67% CAGR (inflation adjusted) 13.12% 1.56% Annualized 13.60% 14.90% Beta 0.84 1.00 Max. Drawdown -42.24% -55.37% Sharpe Ratio 1.04 0.23 Sortino Ratio 1.63 0.32

$ = USD

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Investments - Trading Suggested maintained pool of Opportunities “Cash Holdings” – equities identified suggested by Physical Precious by the 14 Yra Harris: Metals, Gold or Smart Beta Factors: Multi-Asset* Silver-backed Trading Crypto-currencies Global Equities Pool Opportunities Regulated in the (GEP) (YHTO) Financial System

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© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 12 Management Team- Trade through the eyes of Yra!

Yra Harris - Research Strategist

• Recognized Trader with 40+ years of experience

• Track record of successful trading through technical and

• Member of the Board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) for 6 years

and Floor Trader

• Provides regular analysis on the Financial Markets as a guest on Bloomberg and CNBC

© The Cedar Portfolio All Rights Reserved. 13 Management Team – Portfolio, Risk, Policy Expertise

Richard Bonugli – Uli Kortsch – CEO, The Cedar Portfolio Senior Advisor

• Founder and CEO of The Cedar Portfolio and Cedargold • International leader in management, corporate growth, restructuring, investment and financings with experience • Senior management positions with KPMG and Manulife in over 50 countries

• Series 65, Professional Risk Manager and Derivatives • Macro economics and monetary policy specialist Market Specialist, Wealth Management/Capital Markets • MBA in Finance • Education/degree from MIT • On the Board of Directors of several entities

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