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How does Origin’s performance allocation work? What does 50/50 catch-up mean?

We are compensated based on the performance of the Fund. On an annual basis, we are entitled to receive a percentage of net increase in the net asset value of Fund units, but only after the Fund investors have received a 6% return on their beginning net asset value for that year. The performance allocation is designed to provide us with 10% of the Fund’s increase in value, but only after delivering the 6% return to investors and subject to a “high water mark.”

The “catch-up” provision is a means by which we recoup the 10% performance allocation that was forgone to ensure the 6% return is met. After the 6% return is made to investors, 50% of the Fund’s profits are allocated to us until we have received an amount that equals 10% of the total increase in net asset value for that year. Once our performance allocation is “caught-up,” 90% of the increase in value is retained by the Fund for allocation to investors and 10% is allocated to us.

The “high water mark” assures that we only participate in net new incremental increases in the Fund’s net asset value. For example, if the Fund returns 10% in year one and -3% in year two, there is no catch up or performance allocation in year three until the Fund first returns 9% (6% annual return for the current year, plus the 3% shortfall from prior year) to investors.