Acadian Asset Management has rolled out a new Global Leveraged Market Neutral UCITS Fund that aims to achieve positive returns in any market environment.
The Dublin-domiciled fund highly leveraged equity long-short fund will have a market neutral approach to neutralise exposure to the direction of equity markets.
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The fund will be run by Acadian’s senior vice president and director of long/short strategies Alexandre Voitenok.
The strategy, which will use leverage typically more than twice the value of the underlying capital, aims to generate returns from stock selection from a universe of more than 40,000 stocks. It will generate highly valuable uncorrelated returns compared with market beta via Acadian’s system driven style of investing.
Alex Voitenok, director of long/short strategies at Acadian Asset Management, said: "A market downturn or increased volatility would support the opportunity for active stock selection by increasing dispersion and potentially sending some fundamentally sound stocks to attractively priced levels.
"A market neutral strategy is designed to be a diversifier in these circumstances, as we target zero correlation with global equity markets and seek to be neutral to market direction.
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By GlobalData"The goal of our global leveraged market neutral strategy is to maximize absolute return while minimizing absolute risk. We do this by investing in long and short equity positions in developed and emerging markets," Voitenok added.
The fund is registered for sale in the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and Singapore.
