Managers
High-alpha asset management firm, RWC Partners, have confirmed that Peter Allwright
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched its commodity alpha and beta family of Ucits III funds: the MLCX Commodity Enhanced Beta Fund; the MLCX Agriculture Optimal Crop Fund; and the MLCX Commodity Alpha Fund.
Forming part of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Invest platform, all three Ucits-compliant funds offer solutions for commodity investors looking to achieve beta and/or alpha exposure to commodity markets.
The funds track underlying indices created by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
The MLCX Commodity Enhanced Beta Fund and MLCX Agriculture Optimal Crop Fund offer investors a long only diversified exposure to commodity markets with
RWC Partners’ Peter Allwright and Stuart Frost have taken over day-to-day management of the RWC Cautious Absolute Rate and Currency Fund.
Frost and Allwright (pictured) joined RWC Partners in October from Threadneedle where they were joint portfolio managers of the Threadneedle Target Return Fund, Absolute Return Bond Fund and the hedge fund, Macro Crescendo Trading Fund.
The RWC Cautious ARC Fund is approximately USD60m and will continue with its existing target of cash plus three per cent over the market cycle, a target that matches two of the funds they were previously responsible for.
Allwright and Frost have
Swiss banking group, SYZ & CO launched a new UCITS III fund this week that looks to lock-in returns by investing in high-yield currencies.
Frankfurt-based Commerzbank has announced that its investment banking services division, Corporates and Markets (C&
BlueCrest Capital Management, a Guernsey-based alternative asset management company established in 2000 by ex-J.P.
Following last month’s decision to shutter its UK Crescendo Fund in favour of an onshore UCITS-III variation, London-based Threadneedle Asset Management<
Global research and advisory firm, Celent, have published a report this week on the potential impact of UCITS IV, believi
Skandia Investment Group has awarded Aviva Investors a GBP8m mandate to help further boost its Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas Fund, the only long/short Ucits III multi-manager fund in the IMA’s UK All Companies sector.
Launched just over three years ago, the fund has outperformed the FTSE All Share Index by over ten per cent since its launch in September 2007, placing the fund in the top quartile of the IMA UK All Companies sector.
The fund is currently managed by seven UK based long/short equity managers: Paul Casson of Henderson, Richard Plackett of BlackRock, Tim Steer of Artemis,
UCITS funds enjoyed a solid Q3, helped in part by global equity markets rebounding, according to the latest quarterly industry report compiled by UCITS Alternative
