John Locke Investments, a Paris based commodity trading advisor (CTA) has independently launched its first UCITS compliant Fund. The Cyril Systematic Fund provides investors with access to the firm’s flagship Cyril Systematic Program under the Ucits umbrella. The Fund was recently approved by the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers), has almost EUR30million in assets under management and will provide daily liquidity to its investor base.
John Locke Investments has been offering its flagship Cyril Systematic Program toclients over the last 11 years via onshore and offshore Funds and privately managed accounts and continues to deliver consistent non correlated returns to its investor base.
The fund adopts a fully systematic approach to investing in global futures markets.Multiple trend detection techniques are employed, over multiple time horizons to a diverse basket of futures markets within a predefined risk management framework.
François Bonnin (pictured), CEO and Founding Partner of John Locke Investments says: ‘CTA’s have proved their value within investor portfolios over the last 30 years and this was never more so apparent than during the recent market crisis in 2008. Our strategy is well suited to the UCITS structure as we do not have to alter our trading approach in order to comply with UCITS regulations. UCITS investors now have access to a strategy that has delivered consistent non correlated returns to investors over the last 11 years.Our UCITS Fund will broaden our prospective investor base both in Europe and Asia and we are pleased with the inflows we have already seen into the Fund.’
