a. Investment Fund Information

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1 a. Investment Fund Information 1 Name of investment fund. EFG Hermes Hasaad Freestyle Saudi Equity Fund. EFG-Hermes Hasaad Freestyle Saudi Equity Fund is an open-ended Sharia-compliant fund organized in accordance with the provisions of Investment Funds Regulations. The Fund s objective is medium-to-long term capital appreciation through investment primarily in securities listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange and in securities offered in initial public offerings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in compliance with Sharia Standards approved by the Sharia Advisor. The Fund Manager intends to employ an active investment strategy for investment directly in the shares of Saudi companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange as well as in the IPOs of Saudi companies. The Fund's investments will be limited to investments which are compliant with Sharia and approved 2 Investment objectives, policies and practice. by the Sharia Advisory to the Fund. 3 Distribution of income and gain policy. The Fund does not distribute dividends to its Unitholders. All profits are reinvested in the Fund and thereby reflected in the Unit price. 4 The fund's Reports are available upon request free of charge.

2 1 b. Fund Performance A performance record that covers the following: a) The fund net assets value at the end of each Financial year. b) The net assets Value per Unit at the end of each financial year. c) The highest and lowest net asst value per unit for each financial year. d) The number of units in issue at end of each financial year. e) Income Distribution per Unit There has been no income distribution for the fund f) Expense Ratio a) The total return for 1 year, 3 years and 5 years (or since inception). b) The annual total return for each of the last 10 financial years (or since inception) c) A table showing actual fees and fund expenses paid by the investment fund during the year. The Total Expense Ratio should also be clearly disclosed. If there are any circumstances in which a fund manager may elect to waive or rebate any fees, this must also be disclosed. d) The bases for calculating the performance data and any assumption made must be consistently applied. The fund Performance Calculations based on the change on NAV ( IC's price Change). If there were material changes that occurred during the period and that affected the performance of the fund, these changes must be There were no material changes during 2016 that affected the performance of the fund. clearly disclosed. Disclosure of the exercise of annual voting rights and it must include the issuer's name and the date of the General Assembly and the No exercise of voting rights has been made during subject of the vote and the decision to vote (agree/ disagree / abstain from voting) 5 The Fund's board annual report including, but not limited to, the topics discussed and issued resolutions, as well as the fund performance and fund achievement of its objectives. There were no resolutions signed during the Fund Board. Below are the minutes of the Boards of Directors for August and December 2016 that includes the discussed topics, fund performance and fund achievement of its objective.

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12 c. Fund Manager 3 A review of the investment activities during the period. The Fund has invested in shares of Saudi companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange which were all compliant with Sharia Standards. The fund has subscribed in Mutual Funds in KSA (Muscat Capital IPO Fund) & (NOMW IPO Fund) on March 2016 and redeemed on May The Hasaad Fund s Assets Under Management declined 52% during 2016 to end the year at SAR million. The fund lost 0.3% during the year, while the S&P Saudi Shariah TR Index was up by 10.5% during the same period. The fund s high cash position in October and November 2016, hurt the relative performance as the benchmark witnessed an aggressive rally during that period. 4 The fund manager has taken steps to position the fund in the right direction for The fund will continue to focus on fundamentally superior companies in the Insurance, Healthcare, Petrochemical and Consumer non- discretionary sectors to generate superior relative performance. Focus will also be on companies that are having higher weights in the index as the fund manager expects these companies to have a stronger performance due to A write-up on the investment fund s performance during the period. the upcoming MSCI and FTSE events. 5 Details of any material changes made during the period. The update of the Financial Disclosure Summary is the only update that occurred in the Terms and Conditions of the fund within Any other information that would enable unitholders to make an informed judgment about the fund s activities during the period. No other information is available