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The following presentation is a brief summary of information contained in the Private Offering Memorandum of Triton Capital Fund, L.P. This
presentation is not to be construed as an offer to sell securities of or any interest in Triton Capital Fund, L.P. or as an invitation or solicitation for
offers to buy securities of or any interest in Triton Capital Fund, L.P. Nothing to the contrary withstanding contained herein, potential investors
are cautioned that they may rely only upon information contained in the Private Offering Memorandum and related documents.
Contents
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Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Market Risks Facing Investors Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Triton Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hedging Strategy Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Investment Strategy - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Triton Capital Pilot Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fund Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Investor Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Fee Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Partnership Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Executive Resume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
How to Invest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Executive Summary
The principal purpose of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. is to grow investors capital using a variety of
proprietary trading methodologies that are designed to deliver superior returns while simultaneously
insulating the investor from an increasingly volatile and hostile investing environment.
The Triton Capital Fund, L.P. seeks to provide investors with strong performance without the danger
inherent in long-only investment strategies such as a standard mutual fund buy and hold or dollar cost
averaging which rely solely on purchasing stocks.
The Triton Capital Fund, L.P. can be defined as a Global/Macro Long/Short hybrid hedge fund that
seeks to provide investors with a better alternative than traditional buy and hold investment strategies.
The Triton Capital Fund, L.P.s Investment Advisor, Triton Capital Investment Advisors, Inc. tends to
employ an opportunistic strategy, nimble enough to navigate volatile markets, in order to make profits,
regardless of the direction of the global markets.
The success of the Triton Capital, LLC pilot fund, which returned investors 125.02% over 29 months (vs.
23.4% for the Dow Industrials), prompted the creation of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. in August of 2005.
Bowen C. Farrell is the President and CEO of the Triton Capital Fund L.P.s Investment Advisor. Mr.
Farrell has been trading securities since 1978, and is a career investment banker schooled at the Harvard
Business School. Mr. Farrell researched, developed, and made all decisions for the Triton Capital pilot fund.
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Executive Summary
Objective
The objective of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P is to seek capital appreciation for its investors by
applying its understanding of micro-economic factors affecting individual securities amidst the
global macro-economic environment.
Each security has valuation metrics, which include discounted and free cash flow analysis,
GAAP earnings, price multiples (price/sales, price/earnings, price/book, price/EBITDA,
etc.), volatility, and technical trading factors that may be considered and compared.
Global macroeconomic factors such as industrial and demographic trends, interest rates,
currency rates, governmental monetary policy, and pricing anomalies may also be
simultaneously considered to determine if they will benefit or detract from the value of an
individual security.
Investment Strategy
The strategy of the Partnership is to optimize asset allocation, investing in securities (long
positions) with improving prospects and risk adjusted returns, and divesting securities the
Partnership holds (or taking short positions) with lesser expected returns or higher risks. The
General Partner intends to employ a flexible investment approach to asset allocation that will
allow rapid adjustments to changing market circumstances.
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Market Risks Facing Investors Today
Increased Volatility
Rising markets have been followed by quick downturns, often caused by factors that have
little impact on a specific security. Investors now face new and extraordinary economic and
geo-political risks such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, massive trade and budget deficits,
increasing leverage, asset bubbles, and more. These extraordinary factors can make investing
even more dangerous, as globalization and information flow has caused even distant markets
to often trade in the same direction, rendering few safe harbors for investors.
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Summary of Economic Risks Facing US Investors
Today
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Traditional Domestic and International Economic Risks
Lower Interest
Rates
Risk Factors
Given the economic situation facing US investors today, it is Higher Asset
Prices
deficits.
Volatility in
Securities
Markets
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Additional Event Risks Facing Investors Today
Geo-Political Risks
Even though investors may understand the classic
macro-economic risks facing investors today and
apply that knowledge to investing strategies, geo-
political risks such as terrorist attacks like 9/11 also
can cause markets to collapse without notice.
Risk of Unpredictability
Terrorism has injected a new element into the
investment landscape, which is impossible to
dimension, impossible to predict, and impossible to
prepare for using standard buy and hold investment
strategies.
All these factors have given US investors an equity market exposed to above-normal
external risks, which render a buy and hold investment strategy obsolete.
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Triton Capital Funds Solution to
Obsolete Buy and Hold Strategies
Investors in the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. would hold simultaneous long and short
positions in different securities in an attempt to mitigate event risk exposure.
This investment strategy seeks to profit from the increasing spread between the value of
securities owned, which the fund believes to be undervalued, and the slower growth or
decline in securities sold short by the fund.
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Long/Short Hedging
In this example, the investor is net neutral, having taken a position where his long and short
positions are equal on the first day. Assume a market index is trading at 100 on this day.
(1)An obligation to deliver shares of XYZ Corp. that were borrowed, then sold, is established at the time the short position
is established. This obligation is then eliminated when the shares are later purchased and delivered to the lender.
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Long/Short Hedging
Index Value - 50
(2)
This simple example was designed to illustrate how an investor can make money using a hedged strategy even in a severely
declining market. In reality, the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.s Global/Macro Long/Short Hedge Fund will not be perfectly net
neutral, but will seek to be net long in periods of stock price appreciation and net short in periods of stock price depreciation,
while at the same time offering investors more protection from unforeseen economic or geo-political events than most un-hedged
portfolios.
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Simple Examples of Hedging Strategies
Primary Goal
The primary goal in the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. is to capitalize on the relative price
performance of securities chosen to buy vs. those chosen to sell short.
The matching of securities for long and short positions can also take many different forms,
some more closely hedged than others. Below are some simple examples of hedging
strategies.
Above are some examples used for illustrative purposes only, and do not necessarily reflect the current opinion of
the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. management.
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Securities Used by the Triton Capital Fund
Investment Strategy
The Triton Capital Fund, L.P. does not limit itself to domestic equity investments as shown in
the simple example of long/short hedging. In fact, the securities utilized in its investment
strategy may also include certain non-equity asset classes such as:
This may be especially true in times when the equity markets appear to have diminished
volatility or when these investments are more appropriate.
Although the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. seeks to offer event risk protection by hedging, it is
intended that the Fund will be net long in markets it considers undervalued, and net short in
markets it considers overvalued, in an effort to enhance portfolio performance.
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Investment Analysis Techniques
Analysis Techniques
Within the structure of a Global/Macro Long/Short Hybrid fund, the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.
utilizes a proprietary investment strategy which may include, but is not limited to, the following
types of securities analysis:
Global Macroeconomic Analysis Company Specific Financial Analysis
Industrial and Demographic trends DCF and Free Cash Flow analysis
Currency Exchange Rates Financial Statement and Leverage Analysis
Governmental Monetary Policy Price/Sales, Price/Earnings, Price/EBITDA
Pricing Anomalies including Labor Costs Earnings Volatility and Stability Analysis
Growth, GDP, Trade Policy, Legal Climate Technical Analysis
Interest Rates and Interest Rate Differentials
Competitive Strategy
Legal Exposure Analysis Rivalry
Potential for Legal Attack Supplier Power
Value of Current Litigation Barriers to Entry
Buyer Power
Threat of Substitutes
The Triton Capital Fund, L.P. may utilize any or all of the above investment analysis disciplines in considering
its portfolio strategies, long and short.
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Triton Capital, LLC Pilot Fund Performance
Bowen C. Farrell was solely responsible for all trades, management, and execution of the
Triton Capital, LLC pilot account.
Performance for the Triton Capital, LLC pilot account was measured from August 1,
2002 through December 31, 2004, a 29 month period.
The financial performance of the Triton Capital, LLC pilot account was audited by
Kaplan & Co., Certified Public Accountants, which specializes in hedge fund accounting.
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Triton Capital, LLC Pilot Fund Performance
Investment Performance
If a $1,000,000 investment
was made in the Triton
Capital, LLC pilot fund on
Triton Pilot
August 1, 2002, it would $2,250,094
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Triton Capital, LLC Pilot Fund Performance
pilot fund easily beat both other indexes and May 31, 2003
June 30, 2003
$1,711,808
$1,858,852
$1,013,011
$1,028,484
$1,057,008
$1,068,976
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Risk-Return Performance Analysis
(M/A). 1.00
0.80
S&P 500
0.81
Sharpe Ratio Formula 0.60
Dow Jones
In simple form, the Sharpe Ratio is the quotient. 0.40
0.51
0.20
M/A Portfolio Performance M/A Risk Free Rate
0.00
M/A Standard Deviation of Portfolio
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Management of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.
Management
Triton Capital Investment Advisors, Inc. is the General Partner of the Triton Capital
Fund, L.P.
Triton Capital Investment Advisors, Inc., the funds General Partner, is also the
Investment Advisor to the Fund, responsible for implementing the investment
objectives of the Partnership.
The General Partner of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. will also manage the preparation
of tax returns, financial statements, and other special financial reports and statements to
Limited Partners.
Bowen C. Farrell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Triton Capital
Investment Advisors, Inc., the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.s Investment Advisor and
General Partner.
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Legal Structure of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.
The Legal Structure, shown in this diagram allows for investors to become Limited Partners
and share in the performance of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.
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Summary of Investor Requirements
Accredited Investors
Limited Partners must be Accredited Investors, defined as individuals, who, (individually
or together with their spouse), have a minimum net worth of $1.5 million, or who make an
investment in the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. of not less than $750,000.
Minimum Investment
Approved Limited Partners are subject to a minimum investment of $250,000 in the Triton
Capital Fund, L.P. This minimum may be waived in the General Partners sole discretion.
Withdrawal Limitation
Approved Limited Partners are subject to a minimum investment period of 90 days, after
which Limited Partners can withdraw capital at the closing of each calendar quarter, with a
one month notice. This restriction may be waived in the General Partners sole discretion.
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Investment Management Fee Structure
Fee Structure
Investors in the Fund will be subject to the following fee and incentive allocation, payable to
Triton Capital Investment Advisors, Inc., the Triton Capital Fund, L.P.s investment advisor.
Management Fee
A .5% management fee is charged on a quarterly basis (2% annually) for research, legal
and financial administration, auditing, and disclosure costs.
Incentive Allocation
A 20% incentive allocation on new profits will be assessed quarterly on the increase in
the funds value. The General Partners incentive allocation will be subject to a high
water mark, meaning that no additional performance is allocated to the General Partner
without new profits.
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Advantages of Investment Through Partnership
Partnership Advantages
The General Partner believes that certain features of the Partnership make it advantageous for
investors who wish to trade and invest in securities. The advantages include:
Experience
As an experienced trader and investor, the General Partner is in a position to respond appropriately to
marketplace developments as they occur.
Limited Liability
Limited Partners losses are limited to the amount of their investment and any undistributed net profits
of the partnership and will not personally be subject to margin calls.
Administrative Convenience
The Partnership provides investors with numerous services designed to alleviate the administrative
details involved in engaging directly in securities transactions, including maintenance of the books and
accounts of trading activities.
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Resume Bowen C. Farrell
Experience
1997-2004
TRITON CAPITAL, LLC Managing Partner Santa Barbara, CA
Founded company in 1997 as a vehicle for securities trading, private equity transactions, and venture capital. Successful
investment performance prompted the creation of the Triton Capital, LLC pilot fund in August of 2002.
1988-1997
CITICORP Vice President/Senior Banker New York, NY
Structured leveraged buyout/mergers & acquisition financing in the Leveraged Capital Department. Negotiated restructurings,
divestitures, and liquidations of distressed and bankrupt companies in the Institutional Recovery Management Department.
1985-1986
THE COOPER COMPANIES INC. Mergers & Acquisitions Consultant New York, NY
Consulted on M&A strategies for company with brands that included CooperVision, Permalens, Oral-B, Revo Sunglasses.
1982-1985
L.F. ROTHSCHILD, INC. Financial Analyst New York, NY
Corporate Finance/M&A Department. Participated in Initial Public Offerings for technology companies and advised clients
in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other investment banking activities. Wrote firms computer programs.
Education
1986-1988 Harvard Business School Boston, MA
1978-1986 UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
1975-1977 Santa Barbara High School Santa Barbara, CA
1973-1975 Phillips Academy (Andover) Andover, MA
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Investment Banking Experience Bowen C. Farrell
Asset Recovery
CareerCom Columbia House Records BMG Music
Random House Publishing Bantam, Doubleday, Dell
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Reporting, Auditing, and Legal Administration
Procedures
Annual Statements
Investors in the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. are provided with audited annual financial
statements prepared by certified public accountants who specialize in accounting for hedge
funds. The Triton Capital Fund, L.P. is audited by Kaplan & Company, C.P.A.,
Northbrook, IL (847) 272-0001.
Monthly Reports
Investors in the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. will receive monthly, unaudited progress reports
and certain other reports from the General Partner as the General Partner may deem
appropriate.
Legal Administration
The General Partner of the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. is provided with legal administration
services to insure that the Triton Capital Fund, L.P. complies with all state and federal
laws, all Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, and all other governing
regulatory entities. The legal administrator is TK Fund Advisors, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, FL
(954) 345-6442.
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Limited Partnership Process
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For additional information on the
Triton Capital Fund, L.P.
contact the General Partner at: