Altegris Advisors Launches Macro Strategy Fund

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altegris Advisors (altegrismutualfunds.com) is pleased to announce the launch of the Altegris Macro Strategy Fund (Tickers: Class A, MCRAX; Class I, MCRIX; Class N, MCRNX). The Fund offers simple, convenient access for individual and professional investors to participate in the global macro approach to investing through an actively managed mutual fund.

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"Of all the investment strategies, global macro stands alone as the most flexible and opportunistic. Global macro managers assume that somewhere in the world, there's an opportunity," said Jon Sundt, President and CEO of Altegris and a Co-Portfolio Manager of the Fund.  "The Altegris Macro Strategy Fund allows investors to participate in what we believe is an ultimate 'go anywhere' macro approach to investing through the traditional format of a mutual fund, with low minimum investment requirements."

Between January 1997 and March 2011, global macro as a category has experienced significantly lower volatility as measured by the Barclay Global Macro Index (6% on an annualized basis) when compared to the S&P 500 Index (16.5% annualized). In addition, over this same period, the global macro category achieved +9.7% annualized return, as represented by the Barclay Global Macro Index, compared with the S&P 500 Total Return Index's +6% annualized return. Of course, past performance of any asset class or strategy is not necessarily indicative of future performance.

The Altegris Macro Strategy Fund seeks to achieve positive absolute returns in rising and falling markets by allocating its assets between global macro strategies and a fixed-income strategy. Global macro strategies include investment styles such as discretionary, fundamentals-based investing with a focus on macroeconomic analysis; dedicated currency investing that pursues both fundamental and technical trading approaches; systematic trading strategies that incorporate technical and fundamental macroeconomic variables; and other specialized approaches to market sectors such as equities, interest rates, metals, agricultural and soft commodities. 

The Fund's fixed-income strategy is designed to generate interest income and capital appreciation to diversify the returns under the global macro strategies. It invests in a variety of investment grade fixed-income securities.

Key features of the Fund include:

• Actively managed, dynamic portfolio – not a passive index fund
• Daily liquidity
• Low minimum investment
• No investor pre-qualifications
• 1099 tax reporting
• Individual Class A (MCRAX), Class N (MCRNX) and Institutional Class I (MCRIX)

"Our new Fund reflects the Altegris commitment to bringing, what we believe, are the best alternative investment options to investors," Mr. Sundt said. "We look forward to continuing to develop premier alternative solutions designed to offer portfolio diversification and historically low-correlated investments."

Please contact James Doyle at (973) 850-7308 or [email protected] or Andrea Trachtenberg at (800) 828-5225 or [email protected] for more information.

About Altegris Advisors

Altegris Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that advises alternative strategy mutual funds that may pursue investment returns through a combination of managed futures, equities, fixed income and/or other investment strategies.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. There is no guarantee that any investment will achieve its objectives, generate profits or avoid losses. The referenced indices are for general market comparisons and are not meant to represent the Fund. The Fund is new and has limited performance history.

The Altegris Companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Genworth Financial, Inc., and include: (1) Altegris Advisors, LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser; (2) Altegris Investments, Inc., an SEC-registered broker-dealer and FINRA member; (3) Altegris Portfolio Management, Inc. (dba Altegris Funds), a CFTC-registered commodity pool operator, NFA member and California registered investment adviser; and (4) Altegris Clearing Solutions, LLC, a CFTC-registered futures introducing broker and commodity trading advisor and NFA member. The Altegris Companies and their affiliates have a financial interest in the products they sponsor, advise and/or recommend, as applicable. Depending on the investment, the Altegris Companies and their affiliates and employees may receive sales commissions, a portion of management or incentive fees, investment advisory fees, 12b-1 fees or similar payment for distribution, a portion of commodity futures trading commissions, margin interest and other futures-related charges, fee revenue, and/or advisory consulting fees.

Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) is a leading Fortune 500 insurance holding company with more than $100 billion in assets and employs approximately 6,500 people.  Genworth has leadership positions in offerings that assist consumers protect themselves, invest for the future and plan for retirement, and also offers mortgage insurance to help consumers achieve homeownership while assisting lenders manage risk and capital.

Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund or Funds described herein. This and other important information about a Fund is contained in a Fund's Prospectus, which can be obtained by calling (877) 772-5838. The Prospectus should be read carefully before investing. Funds are distributed by Northern Lights Distributors, LLC member FINRA.  Altegris Advisors, J.P. Morgan Investment Management and Northern Lights Distributors are not affiliated.

MUTUAL FUNDS INVOLVE RISK INCLUDING POSSIBLE LOSS OF PRINCIPAL.

The Fund is "non-diversified" for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, which means that the Fund may invest in fewer securities at any one time than a diversified fund. When the Fund invests in fixed income securities or derivatives, the value of your investment in the Fund will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of fixed income securities or derivatives owned by the Fund. In general, the market price of debt securities with longer maturities will increase or decrease more in response to changes in interest rates than shorter-term securities. Other risk factors include credit risk (the debtor may default) and prepayment risk (the debtor may pay its obligation early, reducing the amount of interest payments). These risks could affect the value of a particular investment by the Fund possibly causing the Fund's share price and total return to be reduced and fluctuate more than other types of investments. To respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions, the Fund may invest 100% of its total assets, without limitation, in high-quality short-term debt securities and money market instruments. The Fund's indirect and direct exposure to foreign currencies subjects the Fund to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. Dollar, or, in the case of short positions, that the U.S. Dollar will decline in value relative to the currency that the Fund is short. Currency rates in foreign countries may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time for a number of reasons, including changes in interest rates and the imposition of currency controls or other political developments in the U.S. or abroad. In addition, the Fund may incur transaction costs in connection with conversions between various currencies. The Fund will invest a percentage of its assets in derivatives, such as futures and options contracts. The use of such derivatives may expose the Fund to additional risks that it would not be subject to if it invested directly in the securities and commodities underlying those derivatives. The Fund may experience losses that exceed losses experienced by funds that do not use futures contracts and options. There may be an imperfect correlation between the changes in market value of the securities held by the Fund and the prices of futures and options on futures. Although futures contracts are generally liquid instruments, under certain market conditions there may not always be a liquid secondary market for a futures contract. As a result, the Fund may be unable to close out its futures contracts at a time which is advantageous. Trading restrictions or limitations may be imposed by an exchange, and government regulations may restrict trading in futures contracts and options. Because option premiums paid or received by the Fund are small in relation to the market value of the investments underlying the options, buying and selling put and call options can be more speculative than investing directly in securities. Over-the-counter transactions are subject to little, if any, regulation and may be subject to the risk of counterparty default. A portion of the Fund's assets may be used to trade OTC commodity interest contracts, such as forward contracts, option contracts in foreign currencies and other commodities, or swaps or spot contracts. A substantial portion of the trades of the global macro programs are expected to take place on markets or exchanges outside the United States. Some foreign markets present additional risk, because they are not subject to the same degree of regulation as their U.S. counterparts. Trading on foreign exchanges is subject to the risks presented by exchange controls, expropriation, increased tax burdens and exposure to local economic declines and political instability. An adverse development with respect to any of these variables could reduce the profit or increase the loss earned on trades in the affected international markets. International trading activities are subject to foreign exchange risk. The Fund may employ leverage and may invest in leveraged instruments. The more the Fund invests in leveraged instruments, the more this leverage will magnify any losses on those investments. Leverage will cause the value of the Fund's shares to be more volatile than if the Fund did not use leverage. The Fund may take short positions, directly and indirectly through the Subsidiary, in derivatives. If a derivative in which the Fund has a short position increases in price, the underlying Fund may have to cover its short position at a higher price than the short sale price, resulting in a loss.  Structured notes involve leverage risk, tracking risk and issuer default risk. Taxation Risk involves investing in commodities indirectly through the Subsidiary, through which the Fund will obtain exposure to the commodities markets within the federal tax requirements that apply to the Fund. However because the Subsidiary is a controlled foreign corporation, any income received from the Subsidiary's investments in Underlying Funds/Pools will be passed through to the Fund as ordinary income, which may be taxed at less favorable rates than capital gains.   Underlying Funds/Pools in which the Subsidiary invests will retain investment managers and be subject to investment advisory and other expenses which are indirectly paid by the Fund.  As a result, the cost of investing in the Fund may be higher than other mutual funds that invest directly in stocks and bonds. Each Underlying Fund/Pool will pay management fees, brokerage commissions, operating expenses and performance based fees to each manager it retains. Performance based fees will be paid without regard to the performance of any other managers retained or to the overall profitability of the Underlying Fund/Pool. Underlying Funds/Pools are subject to specific risks, depending on the nature of the managers they retain.  There is no guarantee that any of the trading strategies used by the managers retained by an Underlying Fund/Pool will be profitable or avoid losses.

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