Alcantara Asset Management is to launch the Alcantara Government Debt Fund offering investors access to government debt investment opportunities in sovereign and quasi-sovereign liquid debt instruments from the world’s most stable economies.
The fund, which is epxected to launch on 1 June, follows an active strategy to trade liquid debt instruments while exercising a very conservative approach employing moderate leverage with the aim of delivering capital protection and conservative returns with minimal volatility.
The fund apples stringent risk management policies combining traditional VaR-based and stress testing quantitative approaches with qualitative assessment.
The Alcantara Government Debt Fund is managed by a team of five professionals who also manage the firm’s Emerging Markets Debt Fund. The team has more than 50 years combined experience in debt origination, trading, restructuring, quantitative risk management, credit risk assessment and commercial banking.