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BlueBox Funds- BlueBox Global Technology Fund

Direct Connection

Fund Objective Investment Theme – Direct Connection Portfolio Managers

The Fund’s principle objective is to seek The Direct Connection of computers to the real world has enabled the long term capital growth by investing technology revolution of the past 15 years, driving an acceleration in Lead Portfolio Manager mainly in shares of companies having tech adoption simultaneously across all industry verticals. With every William de Gale, FCA, CFA their principle business in the other industry investing its excess returns in technology, we expect the technology sector or profiting from it. IT sector to continue to outperform the broader market as it steals the The fund invests globally and is not growth from the rest of the economy. The Fund focuses on the benchmark constrained. companies enabling Direct Connection, giving it exposure to the most Co-Portfolio Manager exciting developments in the sector without needing to chase over- Rupert de Borchgrave, CFA hyped themes or invest in over-valued stocks.

BlueBox Global Technology Fund Performance*

140% 120% 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% -20% -40% Mar 18 Jun 18 Sep 18 Dec 18 Mar 19 Jun 19 Sep 19 Dec 19 Mar 20 Jun 20 Sep 20 Dec 20

% Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YTD Since Launch

2021 0.89 3.61 4.53 114.39

2020 1.15 -3.90 -10.06 13.90 8.12 8.95 8.49 5.50 -1.70 0.01 15.12 7.78 63.77 105.10

2019 10.44 5.12 2.95 7.55 -9.42 8.44 1.62 -3.82 2.47 2.29 5.34 4.03 41.74 25.23

2018 -0.10 4.55 -0.89 1.32 2.70 -2.49 -10.90 1.93 -7.36 -11.65 -11.65

* Performance based on Share Class S since launch on 29 March 2018

Top 10 Holdings Top Countries Market Capitalisation Sector Allocation

Microsoft 5.9% Mega cap & semi United States 67.4% 19.0% 38.4% (>$300bn) equipment Lam Research 4.4% Netherlands 8.4% Large cap – upper Taiwan 4.3% 20.8% Software & services 33.2% Japan 7.1% ($100bn - $300bn) Adobe 4.3% Taiwan 4.3% Large cap – lower Hardware & components 17.5% 4.1% 57.9% South Korea 3.4% ($10bn - $100bn) Cadence Design 4.1% Communication services 3.3% Argentina 3.3% Mid cap ASML Holding 4.0% 0.0% ($1bn - $10bn) EPAM Systems 4.0% Switzerland 2.0% Consumer discretionary 3.3% Small cap 3.8% Sweden 1.9% 0.0% (<$1bn) Industrials 2.1% Synopsys 3.5% Cash & equivalents 2.3% Cash & equivalents 2.3% Total Portfolio 42.5% Cash 2.3%

Top 10 Holdings, Top Countries, Sector Allocation & Market Capitalisation as of 26.02.2021

Bluebox Global Technology Fund February 2021 William de Gale’s Monthly Comment During February companies continued to report their December quarter results, which were generally good, but indicated a broadening shortage of semiconductors. This took the sector to a new high mid-month, but then fears over rising interest rates sent many names back down again. Thanks to our substantial exposure to the , and especially to semiconductor equipment stocks, BlueBox ended February comfortably ahead, up 3.6% for the month and 4.5% year to date. Not surprisingly, the positive contributors to performance were led by two semiconductor production equipment names, Applied Materials (+22%) and Lam Research (+17%). Other strong performers included NXP Semiconductor (+14%) and Trimble (+12%). In contrast, (-13%), Murata Manufacturing (-11%) and Arista Networks (-9%) were the biggest decliners for the month. We sold the last of our .com position early in the month. While, it was a clear Covid-19 beneficiary, Amazon is now receiving increasing attention from regulators and tax authorities around the world. By comparison, , in our opinion, has for a long time been far better positioned to benefit from enterprises moving their systems to the cloud. All technology ultimately relies on semiconductors, and supply is inelastic: semiconductor fabs are extraordinarily expensive and take years to build. In 2020 the growth trajectory of much of the technology sector was pulled sharply forward by Covid-19, often compressing several years’ expected penetration gains into a matter of months, so it is no great surprise that the semiconductor industry is having difficulty keeping up with demand. This is exacerbated by geopolitical tensions, as the US is leveraging its dominance of semiconductor capital equipment to squeeze Chinese tech companies out of the market and handicap the Chinese military, while encouraging chipmakers to build fabs away from China and preferably in the US. This creates duplication of capacity and increases capex, especially as Chinese chipmakers are presumably buying equipment as fast as they can while it remains available. Semiconductor equipment companies are currently the fulcrum upon which both the commercial and geopolitical worlds are turning, as they hold the key intellectual property for the entire technology industry. They remain a substantial portion of the BlueBox fund. High-profile, low-margin disrupters like Tesla continue to hog the headlines, with exciting stories but valuations that strain belief, and these may be due a reset. However the enablers, the companies that we prefer, seem far less concerning: they are extremely profitable and do not appear obviously overvalued given their robust growth outlook, which has been further accelerated by Covid countermeasures. This continues the pattern of recent years, with outperformance on the back of earnings growth, not valuation. The Direct Connection of computers to the real world is driving continued investment in technology, and the BlueBox Global Technology Fund focuses on businesses with the key intellectual property to enable that Direct Connection, giving our investors full exposure to accelerating technology trends without the absurd valuations and poor business models of many of the high-profile disrupters.

Portfolio Construction Key Facts

Asset Class: Equity Share Class: S Acc. (USD) A Acc. (USD) I Acc. (USD) C Acc. (USD) ISIN: LU1793347128 LU1793345262 LU1793346666 LU2092176275 Number of Securities: ~30-40 Min. Initial Closed to new Investment: investors $10'000.- $150'000.- $1'000.- Weight: 10% maximum Annual Management 0.0% from 01.12.20 1.5% 1.0% 2.2% Fee: 1.0% previously Turnover: Low Bloomberg Ticker: BLBGTSU LX BLBGTAA LX BLBGTII LX BLBGTCC LX Market cap: Mainly targeting companies between $10bn - $300bn Launch Date: March 29th 2018 Feb 10th 2020 Oct 5th 2020 Nov 27th 2020 Geographic Allocation: Global Fund Base Currency: USD Cash: Minimal cash, generally below 10% Liquidity: Daily

Benchmark: Flexible, not benchmark oriented Fund Type: RAIF Legal Status: SICAV AuM: $426 million Domicile: Luxembourg Auditor: PwC Custodian: RBC

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Bluebox Technology Fund February 2021