Bowmoor Capital, a London-based trend following, global macro hedge fund manager, is making is flagship long/short, systematic, quantitative Global Alpha strategy, which is designed to benefit from price trends in global markets, available to outside investors for the first time, according to reports.
Bowmoor is to launch a new Guernsey-based fund on 1 August anchored by seed investors including London-based investment firm Peregrine & Black.
According to the firm’s website, Global Alpha uses sophisticated mathematical processes to identify and exploit market trends, investing in a diversified portfolio of globally exchange traded futures including stock markets, interest rates, foreign exchange, metals, energy, grain, soft commodities, and livestock. Those futures markets are highly liquid and capture a wide range of trends across the largest financial and commodity sectors of the global economy.
The fund takes both long and short positions, designed to profit from rising and falling markets and aims to perform independently of traditional stock and bond investments.
Bowmoor’s investment team is led by Gareth Abbot and Brendan Mulvany, who together have over 50 years of combined experience developing and running alpha-generating investment strategies. CEO Liddle, is a former British military officer who served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as a helicopter and fast jet pilot, while Mulvany is a former Bank of America trader and the company yes head of execution.
