Reference Basket definition
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The Investment Manager may determine to seek the objective of the Portfolio through direct investment in the securities and instruments, including for the avoidance of doubt, the financial derivative instruments, described in detail in the description of the Reference Basket above where it believes that this is in the best interests of the Portfolio and the Shareholders as a whole.
Reflecting these developments, the average monthly price of the OPEC Reference Basket (which is a notional blend of crudes from around the world), which was U.S.$65.10 in January 2020, fell to U.S.$33.92 in March 2020 and U.S.$17.66 in April 2020.
The Reference Basket is a notional portfolio representative of an actual portfolio of investments which would be made by the Investment Manager in implementing its long/short investment strategy.
The Portfolio will initially seek to achieve its objective principally through entering into one or more total return swaps (the “Swap”) linked to the performance of the Reference Basket.
Since then, the average monthly prices of the OPEC Reference Basket began to recover leading to an average annual OPEC Reference Basket price in 2020 of U.S.$41.47 and most recently in March 2021 of U.S.$61.74, and thereby moving closer to the average annual prices of the OPEC Reference Basket of U.S.$69.78 in 2018 and U.S.$64.04 in 2019.