PAI is the investment adviser to private pooled investment vehicles, the securities of which are
offered to investors on a private placement basis (each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”).
Its principals and the leaders of its portfolio team are Dr. A. Joon Yun and Dr. Patrick Lee.
PAI was previously Palo Alto Investors, LLC, a California limited liability company. On March
30, 2018, it converted into a California limited partnership. At the same time, it organized its
affiliate, PAI LLC, a California limited liability company with which it is under common control,
to act as the general partner of the Funds that are organized as limited partnerships, and PAI entered
into an Investment Adviser Agreement with each of the Funds pursuant to which it manages their
assets.
PAI was founded by William L. Edwards. While Drs. Yun and Lee have led portfolio management
team for some time, until December 31, 2012, Mr. Edwards was PAI’s chairman, chief executive
officer and chief investment officer, and the chairman, chief executive officer and sole shareholder
of Palo Alto Investors, a California corporation that served as its manager.
Effective as of January 1, 2013, Mr. Edwards transitioned the management of PAI to Drs. Yun and
Lee. In connection with that transition, Drs. Yun and Lee replaced Palo Alto Investors as the co-
managers of PAI and Mr. Edwards resigned as the PAI’s chairman, chief executive officer and
chief investment officer.
As of December 31, 2018, PAI had total discretionary assets under management of approximately
$1.99 billion. PAI manages assets only on a discretionary basis.
PAI invests principally, but not exclusively, in equity and equity-related securities that are traded
publicly in U.S. markets and issued by companies primarily in the healthcare industry. Regardless
of its current focus, for each of the Funds, PAI is authorized to enter into any type of investment
transaction that it deems appropriate under the terms of each Fund’s partnership or investment
agreement.
The investors in the Funds have no opportunity to select or evaluate any Fund investments or
strategies. PAI selects all Fund investments and strategies.
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PAI’s compensation is negotiable and varies, and the investment advisory compensation
applicable to each Fund is set forth in detail in that Fund’s offering documents. A brief summary
of those fees is described below and typically consists of the following components:
First, PAI typically charges investors an annual fee of 1-1.5% of their assets
under management, depending on the fund in which they invest. Some current investors who
invested prior to May 1, 2008, pay an annual fee of 1.0%, regardless of the Fund in which they
invest. The management fee with respect to each investor in a Fund is payable in advance in
quarterly installments at the beginning of each calendar quarter based on the net market value of
the investor’s assets on that date.
Second, PAI typically is allocated from each investor a performance
allocation equal to 20% of net profits (including both realized and unrealized gains and losses)
otherwise allocable to that investor.
Performance allocations are assessed in arrears on an annual basis, and are only applied to the
portion of profits that exceed the cumulative losses previously incurred by investors. Limited
partners who joined a Fund before 1995 are typically assessed a 15% performance allocation. PAI
complies with Rule 205-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, to the extent required by
applicable law. Performance allocations may create an incentive for PAI to make more risky and
speculative investments than it would otherwise make.
PAI typically deducts management fees and performance allocations directly from investor
accounts. Funds that invest in mutual funds or ETFs also pay, indirectly, investment advisory fees
to the managers of those funds.
PAI believes that its fees are competitive with fees charged by other investment advisers for
comparable services. Comparable services may be available, however, from other sources for
lower fees.
The disclosure in this Item 5, together with the disclosure in Item 12, allow a plan that is subject
to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and that invests in a Fund to use the
“alternative reporting option” to report PAI’s compensation as “eligible indirect compensation”
on Schedule C of the plan’s Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan.
An investor may withdraw part of its assets from most Funds as of any March 31 or September 30,
subject to a lockup of one to three years, as provided in the Fund’s partnership or investment
agreement. On any permitted withdrawal date for most PAI Funds, no more than 50% of an
investor’s assets may be withdrawn and the remainder may be withdrawn on the next permitted
withdrawal date, but if the remainder is not so withdrawn, then the withdrawal rights revert back
to the restriction that the next time a withdrawal occurs, no more than 50% of those assets may be
withdrawn and the remainder may be withdrawn on the next permitted withdrawal date. Investors
in some Funds, however, may withdraw assets on thirty days’ notice as of the end of any quarter.
An investor who withdraws from a Fund on a date other than March 31 or September 30, or the
end of any quarter, as the case may be, does not receive a refund of the management fee previously
paid.
Each Fund is responsible for its own costs and expenses, as described in each Fund’s offering
documents. PAI bears its own operating, general, administrative and overhead costs and expenses.
All or part of these costs and expenses may be paid, however, by securities brokers that execute
the Funds’ securities trades, as discussed in Item 12 below.
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PAI currently manages only Funds that pay performance-based compensation as described in Item
5. It does not currently manage Funds that do not pay performance-based compensation, although
as discussed above, limited partners who joined a Fund before 1995 typically are assessed a 15%
performance allocation, while subsequent investors pay performance-based compensation of 20%.
This structure could cause the older Funds to pay less performance compensation to PAI than
newer Funds.
To address any conflict that this structure might create, PAI typically allocates all investment
opportunities within each strategy that it manages pro rata based on each Fund’s position size or
assets. In addition, PAI has policies and procedures for reviewing Fund investment allocations on
a regular basis.
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PAI provides investment advice to private pooled investment vehicles that are offered to investors
on a private placement basis. Investors in most Funds generally are required to invest a minimum
of up to $1,000,000 depending on the Fund, but PAI may waive this minimum. Some Funds
require a minimum investment of $5,000,000, but again, PAI may waive this minimum.
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Investment Strategy
In addition to the investments that PAI makes for the Funds as described in Item 4, PAI may also
invest in preferred stocks, convertible securities, warrants, rights, options (including covered and
uncovered puts and calls and over-the-counter options), swaps and other derivative instruments,
bonds and other fixed income securities, private securities, non-U.S. securities and money market
instruments. PAI may also engage in short selling, margin trading, hedging and other investment
strategies for the Funds and on behalf of certain Funds, may invest in and trade currencies.
The investment strategies described above represent PAI’s current intentions and are general in
nature and are not exhaustive. There are no limits on the types of securities in which PAI may
take positions on behalf of the Funds or the types of positions that it may take, the concentration
of its investments or the amount of leverage that it may use. PAI may use any trading or investment
techniques, whether or not contemplated by the expected investment strategies described above.
In addition, there are limitations on describing any investment strategy due to its complexity,
confidentiality and indefinite nature. Depending on conditions and trends in securities and
commodities markets and the economy generally, PAI may pursue any objectives or use any
trading or investment techniques that it considers appropriate and in the Funds’ interests.
Risk Factors
Discussed below are some of the risks that potential investors should consider carefully before
investing in PAI’s Funds. The Funds are highly speculative investments and are not intended as a
complete investment program. The Funds are designed only for sophisticated persons who are able
to risk losing their investment and who have limited need for liquidity. The risks described below
are not exhaustive. Potential investors should review each Fund’s offering documents carefully
and in its entirety and consult with their professional advisors before deciding whether to invest.
PAI and its affiliates may spend time on activities that compete with a Fund
without accountability to investors, including investing for other Funds and their own accounts. If
PAI or PAI LLC receives better compensation and other benefits from managing other assets
compared to managing a Fund, they have an incentive to allocate more time to those other activities.
These factors could influence PAI not to make investments on a Fund’s behalf even if such
investments would benefit the Fund. In addition, members of PAI’s healthcare portfolio
management team are practicing physicians who divide their time between those practices and
their duties to PAI.
A Fund may not achieve its investment objectives. A strategy may not be
successful and investors may lose some or all of their investment.
PAI has exclusive and absolute discretion and authority to manage and the
Fund’s investments, except as limited by any agreement and applicable law.
Currently, each Fund is likely to be concentrated in equities and equity-
related securities that are issued by companies in the healthcare sector companies, with some
exposure in companies located outside the U.S. Those securities involve substantially higher risks
than do investments in securities of other sectors.
There are risks unique to investments in securities of healthcare companies
that are a result of increasing regulation of, and government intervention into, the healthcare
industry and the complexity raised by ethical issues. Changes in the regulatory environment could
affect healthcare companies in ways that are not currently anticipated.
PAI may not be able to obtain complete or accurate information about an
investment and may misinterpret the information that it does receive. PAI or its affiliates also may
receive material, non-public information about an issuer that prevents it from trading securities of
that issuer for a Fund when the Fund could make a profit or avoid losses.
A Fund may have higher portfolio turnover and transaction costs than a
similar account managed by another Fund or investment adviser. These costs reduce investments
and potential profit or increase loss.
PAI may sell securities short, resulting in a theoretically unlimited risk of
loss if the prices of the securities sold short increase.
PAI may sell covered and uncovered options on securities. The sale of
uncovered options could result in unlimited losses.
Management and stockholders of an issuer may sue short sellers to prevent
short sales of the issuer’s securities. PAI, PAI LLC and any of the Funds could be subject to such
actions, even if they are baseless, and any such Fund could incur substantial costs defending them.
PAI may engage in hedging, which may reduce profits, increase expenses
and cause losses. Price movement in a hedging instrument and the security hedged do not always
correlate, resulting in losses on both the hedged security and the hedging instrument. PAI is not
obligated to hedge a Fund’s portfolio positions, and it frequently may not do so.
PAI may use both exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives,
including but not limited to swaps and options. Trading in these instruments is highly speculative
and may entail risks that are greater than those of investing in other securities.
PAI may use leverage by borrowing on margin, selling securities short and
trading derivatives, which increases volatility and risk of loss. These instruments can be difficult
to value. An incorrect valuation could result in losses.
Some of a Fund’s positions may be or become illiquid, in which case PAI
may not be able to sell such positions.
PAI may take positions in securities of small, unseasoned companies that
are less actively traded and more volatile than those of larger companies.
Counterparties such as brokers, dealers, custodians and administrators with
which PAI does business on behalf of the Funds may default on their obligations. For example, a
Fund may lose its assets on deposit with a broker if the broker, its clearing broker or an exchange
clearing house becomes bankrupt.
PAI may lend securities to brokers and other institutions to earn additional
income, or borrow securities from brokers or to other institutions to enable short sales. These
loans typically are fully collateralized daily but the value of the collateral may fall below the value
of the loaned securities or PAI may misjudge the creditworthiness of the other party to the
transaction.
PAI may cause a Fund to enter into repurchase agreements or reverse
repurchase agreements. These instruments can have effects similar to margin trading and
leveraging.
PAI may cause the Funds to invest in securities of non-U.S. private and
government issuers. Some of the PAI Funds invest primarily in these issuers. The risks of these
investments include political risks; economic conditions of the country in which the issuer is
located; limitations on foreign investment in any such country; currency exchange risks;
withholding taxes; limited information about the issuer; limited liquidity; and limited regulatory
oversight. These risks are greater in less developed countries, sometimes referred to as emerging
markets.
Changes in economic conditions, including, for example, interest rates,
credit availability, inflation rates, industry conditions, government regulations, technological
developments, political and diplomatic events and trades, tax and other innumerable other factors.
Unexpected volatility and illiquidity could impair a Fund’s profitability or results in losses.
PAI may acquire for any of the Funds a large position in an issuer’s
securities, but the Fund nevertheless is unlikely to have any control over the issuer’s management.
In addition, if PAI holds a large position in an issuer’s securities, it could depress the market for
those securities.
A Fund may not be able to generate cash necessary to satisfy investor
withdrawals and redemptions. Substantial withdrawals and redemptions in a short period could
force PAI to liquidate investments too rapidly, and may reduce the size of a Fund such that it
cannot generate returns or limit losses.
A Fund may limit or suspend withdrawals or redemptions of an investor’s
assets from the Fund.
A Fund’s investments may not be diversified. In particular, the Funds
concentrate their investments in the healthcare sector. Therefore, a loss in any one position or
industry or sector (for example, emerging markets) in which a Fund has invested may cause
significant losses.
A Fund may invest in restricted securities that are subject to long holding
periods or that are not traded in public markets. These securities are difficult or impossible to sell
at prices comparable to the market prices of similar publicly-traded securities and may never
become publicly traded.
There is not and will not be an active market for Fund interests. It may be
impossible to transfer any such interests, even in an emergency.
A Fund may establish a reserve for contingencies if PAI LLC considers it
appropriate. Investors may not withdraw or redeem assets covered by that reserve until it is lifted.
If the assets that PAI and its affiliates manage grow too large, it may
adversely affect performance, because it may be more difficult for PAI to find attractive
investments as the amount of assets that it must invest increases.
PAI and PAI LLC rely heavily on internal and third-party computer
hardware and software, online services, data feeds, trading platforms and other technology.
Disruptions to these systems or resources make it difficult or impossible to impossible to
implement the Funds’ investment strategies and could materially and adversely affect the Funds.
PAI directly or indirectly through a broker frequently places trades
electronically. If an electronic trading system or component fails, any such event may cause
material losses.
Cybersecurity breaches of the systems of PAI, PAI LLC or their service
providers may cause disruptions that could materially and adversely affect a Fund. PAI cannot
control the cybersecurity plans and systems put in place by their service providers and the issuers
in which the Fund invests.
PAI and its affiliates and agents generally are not responsible to any Fund
or investor for losses incurred in a Fund, unless the conduct resulting in such loss breached PAI’s
fiduciary duty to the Fund or investor.
No Fund or investor has been represented by separate counsel. The
attorneys who represent PAI do not represent the Funds or their investors. The Funds and their
investors must hire their own counsel for legal advice and representation.
PAI LLC receives a special profit allocation based on net changes in a
Fund’s asset values and may create an incentive for its affiliate, PAI, to make riskier and more
speculative investments.
The administrators of the Funds determine the value of most securities held
in the Funds, but may rely on information provided by PAI in making that determination.
PAI may determine the value of securities, whether or not a public market
exists for securities of the same class or type. If those values are inaccurate, PAI and PAI LLC
might receive more compensation than that to which they are entitled, a new investor in a Fund
might receive an interest that is worth less than the investor paid and an investor that is
withdrawing assets might receive more than the amount to which the investor is entitled, to the
detriment of other investors.
Each Fund may have differing terms which may be more advantageous for
one investor over another.
PAI or PAI LLC may provide certain investors with more frequent or
detailed reports, special compensation arrangements and withdrawal or redemption rights that it
does not provide to other investors.
A Fund may dissolve or expel any investor at any time, even if such actions
adversely affect one or more investors.
Each fund and not PAI is responsible for any trade errors that PAI makes in
the Fund, even when the error adversely affects the Fund.
PAI, PAI LLC, an administrator or any government agency may freeze
assets that any of them believes an investor holds in violation of anti-money laundering laws or
rules or on behalf of a suspected terrorist, and may transfer such assets to a government agency.
None of PAI, PAI LLC, a Fund or an administrator will be liable for losses related to actions taken
in an effort to comply with anti-money laundering regulations.
Most Funds do not intend to make distributions, but intend instead to
reinvest substantially all income and gain. Therefore, an investor may have taxable income from
a Fund without a cash distribution to pay the related taxes.
PAI and PAI LLC are not registered with the SEC as broker-dealers.
Interests in the Funds are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and the Funds are not
registered investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940. PAI believes that
none of these registrations is required because exemptions are available under applicable law. If
a regulatory authority deems that any of these registrations is required, PAI, PAI LLC and any
Fund could be subject to expensive legal action and potential termination. In addition, investors
in the Funds do not have certain regulatory protection that they would have if these registrations
were in place.
Federal, state and international governments may increase regulation of
investment advisers, private investment funds and derivative securities, which may increase the
time and resources that PAI must devote to regulatory compliance to the detriment of investment
activities.
PAI’s activities may cause a Fund that is subject to the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to engage in a prohibited transaction under that Act.
PAI’s activities could cause adverse tax consequences to Funds and
investors, including liability for interest and penalties.
If a Fund becomes insolvent, investors may be required to return with
interest any distributions and forfeit any undistributed profits.
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Personal Trading
PAI has adopted a Code of Ethics in compliance with Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940 that establishes standards of conduct for PAI’s supervised persons. All of PAI’s
supervised persons also act on behalf of PAI LLC, which has no employees of its own or persons
who act on its behalf other than PAI’s supervised persons.
The Code of Ethics includes general requirements that PAI’s supervised persons comply with their
fiduciary obligations to clients and applicable securities laws, and specific requirements relating
to personal trading, insider trading, conflicts of interest and confidentiality of Fund and investor
information. It requires supervised persons to comply with the personal trading restrictions
described below and periodically to report their personal securities transactions and holdings to
PAI’s Chief Compliance Officer, and requires the Chief Compliance Officer to review those
reports. It also requires supervised persons to report any violations of the Code of Ethics promptly
to the Compliance Officer. Each supervised person receives a copy of the Code of Ethics and any
amendments to it and must acknowledge in writing having received those materials. Quarterly,
each supervised person must certify that he or she complied with the Code of Ethics. Investors
may obtain a copy of PAI’s Code of Ethics by contacting PAI.
Under the Code of Ethics, PAI and its officers, partners and employees may personally invest in
securities of the same classes as PAI purchases for Funds and may own securities of the same
issuers that PAI subsequently purchases for Funds. This practice creates a conflict of interest in
that any of such persons can use his or her knowledge about actual or proposed securities
transactions and recommendations for a Fund to profit personally by the market effect of such
transactions and recommendations. To address this conflict, except as described in Item 12
regarding aggregating securities transactions, PAI and its officers, partners and employees
typically must obtain pre-approval before engaging in most securities transactions. Further,
employees are restricted from opening any new security positions in the healthcare sector and from
trading any security held in a client account for five business days before and after PAI trades that
security for clients. Employees must give first priority to all purchases and sales of securities for
client accounts before executing transactions for their own accounts, and must conduct their
personal trading in a manner that does not conflict with the interests of any client account. PAI
and its officers, partners and employees may also buy or sell specific securities for their own
accounts based on personal investment considerations aside from company or industry
fundamentals, which PAI does not believe appropriate to buy or sell for a Fund.
Because PAI manages more than one Fund, there may be conflicts of interest over its time devoted
to managing any one Fund and allocating investment opportunities among all Funds. For example,
PAI selects investments for each Fund based solely on investment considerations for that Fund.
Different Funds may have differing investment strategies and expected levels of trading. PAI may
buy or sell a security for one Fund but not for another, or may buy (or sell) a security for one Fund
while simultaneously selling (or buying) the same security for another Fund. PAI may give advice
to, and take action on behalf of, any of the Funds that differs from the advice that it gives or the
timing or nature of action that it takes on behalf of any other Fund. PAI is not obligated to acquire
for any Fund any security that PAI or its officers, partners or employees may acquire for its or
their own accounts or for any other Fund.
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PAI has complete discretion in selecting the broker that it uses for Fund transactions and the
commission rates that the Funds pay such brokers. In selecting a broker for any transaction or
series of transactions, PAI may consider a number of factors, including, for example:
net price, clearance, settlement and reputation;
financial strength and stability;
efficiency of execution and error resolution;
block trading and block positioning capabilities;
willingness to execute related or unrelated difficult transactions in the future;
willingness to commit capital;
special execution capabilities;
knowledge of other buyers and sellers;
order of call;
offering to PAI on-line access to computerized data regarding clients’ accounts;
computer trading systems;
the availability of stocks to borrow for short trades;
confidentiality;
general business or operational consulting;
economic and market information;
portfolio strategy advice; and
industry and company comments.
PAI may also purchase from a broker or allow a broker to pay for the following (each a “soft dollar”
relationship):
research reports, services and conferences, including third-party research fees;
technical data;
periodical subscription fees;
performance measurement data;
on-line pricing;
news wire and data processing charges;
quotation services and equipment (including computer software relating thereto, such as
that provided by Bloomberg, Reuters or similar providers);
custody, recordkeeping and similar services;
proxy research services;
outsourced trading services;
portfolio and risk management systems;
PAI may receive soft dollar credits based on principal, as well as agency, securities transactions
with brokers or direct a broker that executes transactions to share some of its commissions with a
broker that provides soft dollar benefits to PAI.
Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 provides a “safe harbor” to investment
advisers who use commission dollars of their clients to obtain investment research and brokerage
services that provide lawful and appropriate assistance to the adviser in performing investment
decision-making responsibilities. Conduct outside of the safe harbor of section 28(e) is subject to
the traditional standards of fiduciary duty under state and federal law. If PAI uses commission
dollars to pay for products or services that provide administrative or other non-research assistance
to itself or its affiliates, such payments may not fall within the section 28(e) safe harbor.
PAI has retained Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) and Pershing LLC (“Pershing”)
collectively, the “Prime Brokers”) to serve as the prime brokers and custodians to the Funds. PAI
may replace Morgan Stanley or Pershing or appoint additional prime brokers and custodians at
any time. The services that the Prime Brokers currently provide to the Funds may include custody,
margin financing, clearing, settlement and stock borrowing, in accordance with the terms of the
prime brokerage agreement entered into between each Fund and the Prime Broker for that Fund.
Morgan Stanley’s address is 2000 Westchester Ave, Purchase, NY 10577, and Pershing’s address
is One Pershing Plaza, Jersey City, NJ 07399. The Prime Brokers have custody of most of the
Funds’ assets and provide PAI with other services. These services may include: technology (such
as internet access, IT support, Bloomberg connections, wireless networking, e-mail archiving and
disaster recovery systems), capital introduction services, portfolio reporting and access to
electronic communications networks. PAI expects to use a substantial portion of these services
for research and trading on behalf of the Funds, but some may be used for administrative purposes,
which would not be within the safe harbor of section 28(e). Although many prime brokers provide
similar services to investment advisers in exchange for brokerage, custody and clearance fees and
other charges, if PAI did not receive these services from the Prime Brokers, PAI would be required
to pay for all or some of them. PAI is not required to direct a particular number of trades to the
Prime Brokers or to continue to use either of them as the Funds’ custodian, but it has an incentive
to do so based on the Prime Brokers’ prior and continued services.
A Fund’s obligations to a Prime Broker and any other custodian (and its affiliates) are secured by
a first priority perfected security interest over all of the Fund’s assets held in custody by that
custodian or any such affiliate. A custodian may transfer to itself or an affiliate all rights, title and
interest in and to those assets as collateral and may deal with, lend, dispose of, pledge or otherwise
use all such collateral for its own purposes. If any such transfer occurs with respect to a Fund, that
Fund will rank as such custodian’s (or its affiliate’s) unsecured creditor. If such custodian or
affiliate becomes insolvent, the Fund may not be able to recover its securities held by that custodian
or affiliate in full. In addition, a Fund’s cash that a custodian holds may not be segregated from
such custodian’s own cash and, if not so segregated, such custodian or affiliate may use that cash
in the course of its business and a Fund will rank as unsecured creditors in relation to that cash.
PAI may pay to a broker mark-ups that exceed those that another broker might charge for effecting
the same transaction because of the value of the brokerage, research, other services and soft dollar
relationships that such broker provides. PAI determines in good faith that such compensation is
reasonable in relation to the value of such brokerage, research, other services and soft dollar
relationships, in terms of either the specific transaction or PAI’s overall fiduciary duty to its clients.
A Fund may, however, pay higher commissions and mark-ups than are otherwise available or may
pay more commissions or mark-ups based on Fund trading activity. The research and other
benefits resulting from PAI’s brokerage relationships benefit PAI’s operations as a whole and all
accounts that it manages, including those that do not generate the soft dollars that pay for such
research and other benefits. PAI does not allocate soft dollar benefits to any Fund proportionately
to the soft dollar credits that such Fund generates.
PAI’s relationships with brokers that provide soft dollar services influence PAI’s judgment and
create conflicts of interest in allocating brokerage business between firms that provide soft dollar
services and firms that do not. PAI has an incentive to select or recommend a broker based on
PAI’s interest in receiving soft dollar services rather than any Fund’s interest in receiving the most
favorable execution. These conflicts of interest are particularly influential to the extent that PAI
uses soft dollars to pay expenses it would otherwise be required to pay itself.
PAI addresses these conflicts of interest by quarterly evaluating the trade execution services that
it receives from the brokers that it uses to execute trades for the Funds. Such evaluation includes
comparing those services to the services available from other brokers. PAI considers, among other
things, alternative brokers, market makers and market centers, the quality of execution services,
the value of continuing with various soft dollar services and adding or removing brokers,
increasing or decreasing targets for each broker and the appropriate level of commission rates.
PAI may aggregate securities sale and purchase orders for a Fund with similar orders being made
contemporaneously for other Funds that PAI manages or with accounts of its affiliates. In such
event, PAI may charge or credit a Fund the average transaction price of all securities purchased or
sold in such transactions. As a result, however, the price may be less favorable to the Fund than it
would be if PAI were not executing similar transactions concurrently for other Funds. PAI may
also cause a Fund to buy or sell securities directly from or to another Fund, if such a cross-
transaction is in the interests of both Funds.
PAI may direct a certain amount of brokerage to a broker in return for the broker’s referral of
prospective investors. Directing brokerage in exchange for investor referrals creates a conflict of
interest in that PAI has an incentive to refer the Funds’ brokerage business to brokers to which it
might not otherwise direct transactions.
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All of PAI’s Funds are managed and reviewed weekly by their portfolio managers. These reviews
consider asset allocation, cash management, market prospects and individual issue prospects and
give particular attention to changes in company earnings, industry outlook, market outlook and
price levels. PAI’s portfolio managers are:
A. Joon Yun, Principal
Patrick Lee, Principal
Charles Cho, Equity Analyst
Investors in the Funds receive the following regular reports:
Monthly or Quarterly – Account balance statements from the independent fund
administrator.
Quarterly – Update letter to investors.
Annually – Audited fund financial statements.
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PAI engages solicitors to whom it pays cash or a portion of the advisory fees and or incentive
allocation paid by investors referred to it by those solicitors. This practice is disclosed in writing
to investors and PAI complies with the other requirements of Rule 206(4)-3 under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, to the extent required by applicable law.
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PAI has discretionary authority to manage the Funds pursuant to a grant of authority in each Fund’s
limited partnership agreement or a limited power of attorney in each Fund’s investment adviser
agreement.
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PAI decides whether to vote a proxy on behalf of each Fund after considering the proposal’s merits
and considers a variety of qualitative and quantitative factors in deciding whether and how to vote
a proxy. If PAI is considering voting a proxy, it reviews all proxy solicitation materials that it
receives and evaluates all such information. It may also seek additional information from the party
soliciting the proxy and independent corroboration of such information when PAI considers it
appropriate and when it is reasonably available.
the proposal’s economic effect on shareholder value;
the threat that the proposal poses to existing rights of shareholders;
the dilution of existing shares that would result from the proposal;
the proposal’s potential effect on enhancing PAI’s engagement with management;
the effect of the proposal on management or director accountability to shareholders; and
if the proposal is a shareholder initiative, whether it wastes time and resources of the
company or reflects the grievance of one individual.
PAI abstains from voting proxies when PAI believes that it is appropriate to do so.
Due to the size and nature of the Firm’s operations and the Firm’s limited affiliations in the
securities industry, the Firm does not expect that material conflicts of interest will arise between
the Firm and a client account over proxy voting. The Firm recognizes, however, that such conflicts
may arise from time to time, such as, for example, when the Firm or one of its affiliates has a
business arrangement that could be affected by the outcome of a proxy vote or has a personal or
business relationship with a person seeking appointment or re-appointment as a director of a
company. If a material conflict of interest arises, the Firm will vote all proxies in accordance with
its proxy voting policies.
Investors can obtain a copy of PAI’s proxy voting policy and a record of votes cast by PAI on
behalf of the Fund in which that investor is invested by contacting PAI.
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Not Applicable.
Privacy Policy
PAI, PAI LLC and the Funds:
collect non-public personal information about their investors from the following sources:
o information received from investors on applications or other forms, and
o information about investors’ transactions with PAI, its affiliates or others;
do not disclose any non-public personal information about their investors or former
investors to anyone, except as permitted by law;
restrict access to non-public personal information about their investors to their employees
who need to know that information to provide services to investors; and
maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal
standards to guard investors’ personal information.
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