Stephen Dover, MD of Franklin Templeton’s Local Asset Management group will manage the fund, along with Sao-Paulo based Marco Freire and Frederico Sampaio, the firm’s CIOs for Brazilian fixed income and equities, respectively.

The portfolio construction will centre on bottom-up analysis and a macroeconomic view of asset allocation across equities, fixed income and currency markets.

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Though the fund was launched in Luxembourg on 27 July 2012, the group is seeking FSA approval for the fund to be made available to UK investors.

"We approach the Brazilian market by making relative value decisions in areas where our research gives us a higher probability of success," Freire remarked.

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