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Business Continuity Plan

SUNDANCE BAY INVESTMENT MANAGER, LLC

DBA Sundance Bay

Business Continuity Plan Summary

Securities industry regulations require that investment advisers inform their clients of their plans to address the possibility of significant business disruption (“SBD”) from unexpected events such as power outages, natural disasters, or another such occurrence. Firms must be able to provide continuous and uninterrupted services to their clients, and critical systems must function during such incidents so that the firm can resume operations as quickly as possible, given the SBD’s scope and severity. In addition, advisers must meet their obligations to clients, counterparties, and others during any emergency or SBD. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions are unpredictable, firms must be flexible in acting. Well thought out, advanced preparations and effective procedures can significantly minimize downtime in the face of a disaster or outage.

To satisfy this requirement, Sundance Bay Investment Manager, LLC (“Sundance Bay”) has developed a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan (“BCP” or “Plan”) to detail how it will react when faced with such conditions. While no contingency plan can eliminate all service interruption risks, Sundance Bay’s BCP strives to set forth the firm’s policies and practices under various SBD situations and mitigate all credible threats while keeping up with changes to the adviser’s business, structure, operations, and location.

FIRM POLICY

Sundance Bay’s guiding principle is that protecting clients, investors, employees, and family members always takes precedence over preserving business assets. Accordingly, Sundance Bay’s policy is to respond to an SBD by first safeguarding the lives of its clients, investors, employees, family members, and others and then firm property, make a quick financial and operational assessment, protect and preserve all advisory books and records, and promptly recover and resume operations to allow clients and investors to continue to transact business as rapidly as possible.

Recovery times may vary depending on the nature and severity of the disruption; however, the objective of restoring mission-critical operations is 0-72 hours.

BCP Summary

Sundance Bay’s BCP – which is reviewed, tested regularly, and updated no less than annually, anticipates two kinds of SBDs, internal and external. Internal SBDs affect only the firm’s ability to communicate and do business, such as a fire in the building. External SBDs prevent the operation of the securities markets for several firms and may include events such as terrorist attacks, floods, or wide-scale regional disruptions.

Sundance Bay’s Plan addresses all mission-critical systems, office closing and relocation procedures, and employee alternative physical locations. In addition, regulatory reporting and alternate communications between the adviser and its clients, investors, employees, critical business constituents, banks, counterparties, and others are detailed to preserve uninterrupted communication. The Plan defines data back-up and recovery procedures (hard copy and electronic) and lists formal succession planning in the event of key personnel absence. Further, Sundance Bay requires its primary internal and external vendor systems providers to periodically conduct testing of their own back-up capabilities to verify the prompt provision of the necessary information and applications needed to continue or resume business in an emergency or SBD situation.

Sundance Bay carries out its BCP under the direction of the Disaster Recovery Executive Coordinator (“DREC”). The DREC is responsible for making an immediate preliminary assessment of the nature and extent of any disruption and communicating the firm’s BCP to employees, clients, investors, critical business constituents, and regulators. When an internal or external event, either minor or significant, occurs or appears to be developing, the DREC will be notified. Upon notification or becoming aware of an SBD event, the DREC will implement BCP emergency procedures, secure the headquarters as much as possible, and advise all employees to call the firm’s emergency call line directly @ 801.783.3430 or contact them directly.

If a business disruption affects only Sundance Bay or a specific area within the firm, the adviser will transfer its operations to a local worksite. If a disruption affects the firm’s business district, city, or region, operations will be transferred to an alternate worksite outside the affected area. Telephone service will continue, and regular work processes will resume at its alternate location(s). Sundance Bay will continue conducting business in either situation and notify its clients and investors on maintaining contact through a message recorded on its main phone number and via website posting (www.sundancebay.com).

According to the BCP’s provisions, if an SBD is so severe that it prevents the firm from conducting advisory business, Sundance Bay will update its voice message and website appropriately and inform clients and investors of its status by fax, e-mail, telephone, in person, or other means available and appropriate at the time. If it is determined that the firm cannot continue its business, it will inform clients and investors and provide details concerning next steps and asset access by the same means of communication.

Additional Information

Sundance Bay’s BCP is designed to allow the firm to continue to provide the quality service its clients have come to expect. Please contact Sundance Bay directly with any questions about the firm’s disaster recovery practices or to request a complete copy of the Plan:

Sundance Bay

Attention:  Michael C. Nixon, Managing Director

1240 East 2100 South, Suite 300

Salt Lake City, UT 84106

Telephone:  801.783.3430

E–mail: [email protected]

Website:  www.sundancebay.com

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