{"id":35628,"date":"2014-07-17T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/lombard-odier-investment-managers-launches-long-short-ucits-fund\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:04:49","slug":"lombard-odier-investment-managers-launches-long-short-ucits-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/lombard-odier-investment-managers-launches-long-short-ucits-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Lombard Odier Investment Managers launches long\/short UCITS fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOIM has launched[[LO Funds \u2013 Fundamental Equity Long\/Short is available in the following jurisdictions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Registration in Switzerland is pending.]] LO Funds \u2013 Fundamental Equity Long\/Short, a US-focused fund with weekly liquidity. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years traditional asset classes have benefitted from huge liquidity inflows from central banks. Investors are now looking for solutions that offer exposure to equity markets which target an absolute return in all market conditions. LOF \u2013 Fundamental Equity Long\/Short has been designed with this objective in mind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fund allocates capital to five sector teams under the oversight of the strategy\u2019s Chief Investment Officer, Steve Bulko. Each of the five US-based specialist sector teams \u2013 Consumer, Industrials, Healthcare, TMT (Technology, Media &#038; Telecoms) and Energy \u2013 work together to apply bottom-up fundamental analysis which targets low correlation with equity markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cInvestors want managers who can generate returns across market cycles,\u201d<\/em> said Mr Bulko. <em>\u201cAn absolute return approach, we think, is the best way to achieve this because a portfolio manager can go both long and short[[The fund will generate short exposure through the use of derivatives]]. Our new UCITS offering assembles a team of experienced, US-focused equity managers, who we believe can deliver this absolute return profile to our investors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the asset management arm of the Lombard Odier Group, launches a UCITS-compliant, US-focused, long\/short equity fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":35626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1687,1655,1723,1690,1651,1711,1437,1691,2243,1952,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}