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Page 1: Tradex Global Equity Fund

Tradex Global Equity Fund

CITY OF LONDONInvestment Management Company Limited

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Market Performance

Source: Bloomberg

1 Year Stock Market Returns in Canadian Dollars (Year End 3/31/20)*

*Based on gross total return indices.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index returns are subject to change due to restatements by index vendors in the historical index levels.

Japan

USA

Index

Japan Small Cap

Europe ex-UK

Europe ex-UK Small Cap

Emerging Markets Index

Canada

Hong Kong

Small Cap Index

Singapore

UK

UK Small Cap

Australia

-25% -20% -15% -10% -5% 0%

-8.38%

-4.36%

-0.50%

-1.45%

-5.36%

-6.54%

-12.12%

-12.36%

-13.98%

-16.24%

-17.25%

-17.41%

-18.36%

-20.64%

-20.69%

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Sector Performance

Source: Bloomberg

1 Year Sector Returns in Canadian Dollars (Year End 3/31/20)*

*Based on gross total return indices.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index returns are subject to change due to restatements by index vendors in the historical index levels.

Information Technology

Healthcare

Utilities

Consumer Staples

Communication Services

Index

Consumer Discretionary

Industrials

Real Estate

Materials

Financials

Energy -4.16%

-50% -40% -30% -20% -10% 0% 10% 20%

-42.29%

-15.69%

-13.53%

-13.04%

-11.95%

-6.20%

2.90%

7.63%

14.18%

-4.36%

0.48%

1.54%

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Tradex Global Equity Fund Strategy - Overview

Value oriented

Highly diversified global market exposure

Invest in closed-end funds around the world

Exploit advantages of closed-end fund structure — discount volatility

Reversion to mean is key strategy concept

Experienced investment team

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Components of a Hypothetical CEF Return

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10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

Index Country/Currency Return Holding NAV Performance Excess Price Change Total Return

10%

2%

2%

3% 17%

The Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure global developed market equity performance.

Country/Currency Return - Portion of the CEF’s hypothetical return that is due to country/currency exposure relative to the country/currency exposure of the Index.

Holding NAV Performance - Portion of the CEF’s hypothetical return that is due to the CEF’s NAV performance against its country/currency exposure.

Excess Price Change - Portion of the CEF’s hypothetical return that is due to its share price discount to NAV changing.

Total Return - The combination of the CEF’s hypothetical components of return.

Information relating to certain indices is provided for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied upon and does not represent, and is not indicative of, the actual or future performance or the results that may be achieved by the Fund. Indices are unmanaged, not available for direct investment and do not represent the return or volatility of any particular product or portfolio. The Fund may invest in financial instruments and strategies not included or represented in the index shown. The performance and tax consequences of an investment in the instruments represented by an index and an investment in an account managed by CLIM may be, and in many cases are likely to be, materially different. Investors should not consider any index to be a performance benchmark for the Fund, nor should investors conclude that the Fund will or will not be correlated with an index. Index returns are subject to change due to restatements by index vendors in the historical index levels.

The hypothetical components of return do not reflect the performance of an actual holding of the Fund. Accordingly, each component and the overall performance within the hypothetical representation could be either negative or positive.

The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Source: City of London Investment Management

Hypothetical Components of Return

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Performance Tradex Global Equity Fund

Annualized Returns as at March 31, 2020†

1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years Since Inception*Tradex Net (CAD) -16.90% -7.47% -0.44% +2.61% +8.64% +5.18%Index (CAD) -5.63% +0.93% +3.87% +5.45% +10.10% +3.69%

-11.27% -8.40% -4.31% -2.84% -1.46% +1.49%

Attribution - Rolling 1 Year as at March 31, 2020†

Performance (%) Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Rolling 1 YearTradex Net (CAD) +0.33 -0.70 +10.26 -24.36 -16.90Index (CAD) +1.91 +1.71 +6.40 -14.44 -5.63

-1.58 -2.41 +3.86 -9.92 -11.27

Attributed to (%)**Country Allocation -1.21 -0.03 -0.81 +2.69 +0.87Currency Movements +0.23 -0.57 +0.67 -1.57 -1.25NAV Performances*** -1.15 -1.49 +2.15 -9.00 -10.28Discount Movements +0.55 -0.32 +1.85 -2.04 -0.61

-1.58 -2.41 +3.86 -9.92 -11.27

*Inception Date was May 7, 1999. Performance figures as of March 31, 2020. **City of London Investment Management estimates. Performances for the Quarter and Year to Date are compounded and therefore will not always equal the sum of the individual component months. Index returns are subject to changedue to restatements by index vendors in the historical index levels.***The NAV Performances component includes costs associated with custody, administration and investment management fees.†Net returns. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Source: CIBC Mellon, City of London Investment Management

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Tradex Global Equity Fund

3 Day Rolling Average Portfolio Discount Rolling 1 Year as of March 31, 2020

Source: City of London Investment Management

3/31

/19

4/9/

19

4/18

/19

4/29

/19

5/8/

19

5/17

/19

5/28

/19

6/6/

19

6/17

/19

6/26

/19

7/4/

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7/15

/19

7/24

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8/2/

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8/13

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8/22

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8/31

/19

9/10

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9/19

/19

9/30

/19

10/9

/19

10/1

8/19

10/2

9/19

11/7

/19

11/1

8/19

11/2

7/19

12/6

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12/1

7/19

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1/28

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2/6/

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/20

2/26

/20

3/6/

20

3/17

/20

3/26

/20

-19

-18

-17

-16

-15

-14

-13

-12

-11

-10

-9

3 Day Rolling Average Portfolio Discount

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Contributors

Japan Overweight

• Japan CEF NAV Performance

Healthcare Sector Exposure

US Large Cap Exposure

• Pershing Square Holdings

• Adams Diversified Equity Fund

China A-Share Exposure

Detractors

USA Underweight

• Technology Sector Underweight

Energy & Financial Sector Exposure

Mid/Small Cap Exposure

UK Overweight

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Performance Drivers

Nothing herein should be construed as investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any securities.

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Global Environment / Outlook

Recent Developments

COVID 19 – a grey rhino not a black swan

Oil price collapse – supply side stand-off

Widespread economic retrenchment

Unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus has been applied

Consumer habits upended – temporary or permanent adjustments

Safe havens benefit – dollar stronger and Treasury yields lower

Tech gets another boost from social distancing

Future Developments

US Presidential election in November will drive “readiness” to re-open

US-China tensions grow

Pent up demand when virus concerns subside

Seeds of inflation planted

Consequences of increased debt

Brexit Agreement by year end– it wasn’t challenging enough

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Any forward looking statements or forecasts are based on assumptions and actual results may vary from any such statements or forecasts.

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Tradex Portfolio Characteristics - Country Allocation March 31, 2020

Source: City of London Investment Management

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Country Allocation

Made up of 30 to 50 holdingsRepresent 2,500± underlying stocks

Past performance is no guarantee of future results

Weighted average discount of closed-end funds: 13.2%Diversified across 40+ countries

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Tradex Global Equity FundIndex

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Tradex Portfolio Characteristics - Sector Allocation March 31, 2020

Source: City of London Investment Management

Sector Allocation

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Summary

Value oriented investment strategy

Utilize closed-end funds as investment medium

Focused on exploiting closed-end fund discount volatility

Diversified approach helps to reduce risk

Key allocation decisions

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Overweight Neutral UnderweightJapan Canada USAUKEurozoneEmerging Markets

• Mexico• China A-Shares

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Appendix

CITY OF LONDONInvestment Management Company Limited

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Stock Picking(Bottom-Up)Stock Selection

Discounts to Net Asset Value

Expertise of the Fund Managers

Corp Activity

Stage 1Analyze macroeconomic data

Macro Process (Top-Down)Country Allocation

Stage 2Rank markets according to macroeconomic outlook

Stage 3Re-rank markets based

upon relative pricingof country-specific

funds

Themes: Large Cap versus Small Cap;Sector Tilts

The Investment Process

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Tradex Global Equity Fund March 31, 2020Portfolio Holdings

% TotalGABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST 6.4POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL FINANCIALS TRUST 5.0ADAMS DIVERSIFIED EQUITY FUND 4.7PERSHING SQUARE HOLDINGS 4.6POLAR CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY TRUST 4.5BAILLIE GIFFORD UK GROWTH FUND 4.3BAILLIE GIFFORD EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST 4.0FIDELITY EUROPEAN VALUES 3.9SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC 3.9POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL HEALTHCARE TRUST 3.6JAPAN SMALLER CAPITALIZATION FUND INC 3.5JOHN HANCOCK FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND 3.2JPMORGAN EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST 3.0TEKLA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS 2.9JPMORGAN JAPANESE INVESTMENT TRUST 2.8TR EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST 2.8JPMORGAN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST 2.6ROYCE VALUE TRUST 2.4ADAMS NATURAL RESOURCES FUND INC 2.2ABERDEEN JAPAN EQUITY FUND INC 2.2NEW GERMANY FUND INC 2.1

% TotalPERPETUAL INCOME AND GROWTH INVESTMENT TRUST 2.1TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS INV TRUST 2.1EDINBURGH INVESTMENT TRUST 2.0BLACKROCK WORLD MINING TRUST 2.0JPMORGAN JAPAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST 2.0MORGAN STANLEY CHINA A SHARE FUND INC 1.9ABERDEEN AUSTRALIA EQUITY FUND INC 1.9BMO GLOBAL SMALLER COMPANIES FUND 1.7MEXICO FUND INC 1.7MIDDLEFIELD CANADIAN INCOME PCC 1.5CLEARBRIDGE ENERGY MIDSTREAM OPPORTUNITY FUND INC 1.3SCOTTISH MORTGAGE TRUST 1.2ALLIANZGI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES FUND 1.1EUROPEAN ASSETS TRUST 1.1CANADIAN GENERAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED 0.9CANOE EIT INCOME FUND 0.2

Net Receipts (Including Cash) 0.7Total 100.0

Source: City of London Investment Management

Numbers are rounded and may not equal 100.

Nothing herein should be construed as investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any securities.

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Important Notice

City of London Investment Management Company Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), registered as an Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). All reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this information. No responsibility can be accepted under any circumstances for errors of fact or omission. Values may fall as well as rise and you may not get back the amount invested. The information contained in this document is confidential and is intended only for the use of the person to whom it is given and is not to be reproduced or redistributed. It is intended for information purposes only and may only be distributed to persons who are “accredited investors” as defined in National Instrument 45-106 and “permitted clients” within the meaning of Ontario Securities laws. This document does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor will any sale of a security occur in any jurisdiction where such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of the investment. Discounts are calculated using estimated NAVs by City of London’s Research Department.

Information relating to certain indices is provided for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied upon and does not represent, and is not indicative of, the actual or future performance or the results that may be achieved by the Fund. Any forward looking statements or forecasts are based on assumptions and actual results may vary from any such statements or forecasts.