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Rating Action:

Moodys assigns ratings to Amathea Funding CFO issuance

18 Feb 2011

London, 18 February 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned the following ratings to notes issued by Amathea Funding Public Limited Company:

....US$133M USD 133,000,000 Amathea Feb 2011-1 VFN Notes, Assigned Aa1 (sf)

....US$38M USD 38,000,000 Amathea Feb 2011-1 MZ Notes, Assigned A2 (sf)

....US$5M USD 5,000,000 Amathea Feb 2011-1 SN Notes, Assigned Aa1 (sf)

The ratings address the expected loss posed to investors by the legal final maturity of the programme in October 2018.

RATINGS RATIONALE

The rated notes are ultimately backed by low loan-to-value ("LTV") loans granted to 72 funds of hedge funds (each a "Loan"). Each Loan is collateralized by all the assets (that is hedge fund shares) of the corresponding fund of hedge funds. However, only hedge fund shares satisfying certain eligibility criteria are used to determine the LTV ratios. In particular, only 61% of the assets are eligible, with the remaining 39% thus not being considered in the LTV calculation but yet being part of the collateral securing the Loans. In essence, the Issuer can be viewed as a CDO of 72 underlying Collateralized Fund of Hedge Funds Obligations ("CFOs").

The overall underlying portfolio comprises 486 eligible hedge funds covering 29 strategies among the 33 sectors in Moody's classification. The strategies currently representing more than 5% are:, Opportunistic (12.5%), CTA (11.5%), Emerging Markets (11.4%), Long/Short Hedged (10.2%), Macro (8.0%), Distressed (7.7%), Event Driven (5.9%), and Fixed Income (5.8%). Out of these 486 hedge funds, three represent more than 2% of the eligible assets (2.34%, 2.17%, 2.01%).

The newly issued senior notes rank pari passu with the outstanding senior notes and VFNs, and senior to the mezzanine notes. Unlike the mezzanine and senior notes, the VFNs have the ability to capitalize interest, so long as the portfolio performs. Should the capitalized interest exceed the interest due on the underlying loans, interest on the VFNs would be paid prior to any payments to the mezzanine notes. This accrual mechanism has been modeled and certain interest scenarios tested in Moody's analysis.

The principal methodology used in this rating was "Moody's Approach to Rating Collateralized Funds of Hedge Funds Obligations" published in July 2003. In addition, Moody's publishes a weekly summary of structured finance credit, ratings and methodologies, available to all registered users of our website, at www.moodys.com/SFQuickCheck.

The main drivers of Moody's analysis for this transaction are as follows:

1. The covenanted maximum LTV for each of the 72 underlying Loans ranging from 25% to 35%, combined with the additional protection provided by the subordinated and unrated notes issued by Amathea Funding. The current LTVs range from 0% to 31%.

2. The assumed volatility of returns of the underlying hedge funds. For the most important strategies listed above, the volatilities are: 62% for Emerging Markets, 50% for Opportunistic, 46% for CTA, 39% for Long/Short Hedged, 37% for Macro, 33% for Event Driven, 30% for Distressed and 21% for Fixed Income.

3. The assumed liquidity profile of the portfolio (i.e. the time period over which hedge fund investments can be redeemed in cash). According to the eligibility criteria, a hedge fund cannot be given credit if its liquidity profile is longer than 15 months. Even though approximately 75% of the underlying hedge funds have a liquidity profile shorter than six months, Moody's assumed that all the hedge funds in the portfolio have a 15 month liquidity profile.

4. The weekly check performed by Demeter (Holdings) Ltd through a proprietary model developed jointly by Natixis and Demeter that essentially replicates Moody's quantitative analysis. In addition, the Loans and their covenants are monitored on a daily basis by Citco Financial Products (London) Limited. It is noteworthy that given their relatively subordinated position, the Amathea Feb 2011 - 1 MZ mezzanine notes are primarily exposed to the first (few) of the 72 underlying Loans to incur losses. This makes their rating particularly sensitive to the portfolio parameters securing the weakest underlying VFNs.

In addition to the scenarios embedded in the published methodology referred to above, Moody's also considered additional sensitivity tests by stressing key inputs. By way of example, assuming a 50% decline in value of the portfolio, and assuming both that the Issuer's liabilities are fully drawn and that the Loans are in default, the model output for the new debt is still investment grade.

The V Score for this transaction reflects a High uncertainty about critical assumptions used in the analysis. This is due primarily to the structural complexity of the transaction and its direct exposure to market value risk. It is identical to the High V Score assigned to the Global Hedge Fund Collateralized Fund Obligation sector. It is however noteworthy that, compared to a typical CFO, the structure benefits from a particularly better disclosure and quality of data provided by the Issuer. The special report "V Scores and Parameter Sensitivities in the Global Hedge Fund CFO Sector" is also available on moodys.com.

Moody's Investors Service did not receive or take into account a third party due diligence report on the underlying assets or financial instruments related to the monitoring of this transaction in the past six months.

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The rating has been disclosed to the rated entity or its designated agents and issued with no amendment resulting from that disclosure.

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Moody's Investors Service considers the quality of information available on the issuer or obligation satisfactory for the purposes of assigning a credit rating.

Moody's bases his analysis on the investment characteristics (strategies) chosen by the Fund of Hedge-Funds and provided by Demeter. Moody's has carried out an operational review on some of the Fund of Hedge-Funds and more importantly on Demeter itself. The high diversification of both, the portfolio of Fund and Hedge-Funds but also of the portfolio of Hedge Funds for each Fund of Hedge-Fund is an important element considered to mitigate risks of fraud or negligence.

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Moodys assigns ratings to Amathea Funding CFO issuance
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