{"id":59730,"date":"2017-01-11T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/h2o-asset-management-expands-investment-expertise-by-launching-innovative-fund-range\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:15:00","slug":"h2o-asset-management-expands-investment-expertise-by-launching-innovative-fund-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/h2o-asset-management-expands-investment-expertise-by-launching-innovative-fund-range\/","title":{"rendered":"H2O Asset Management Expands Investment Expertise By Launching Innovative Fund Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>H2O Asset Management today announced that it is expanding its product<br \/>\nrange with the launch of the H2O Barry funds.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>H2O Barry Active Value and H2O Barry Short, both Irish UCITS, are the first funds<br \/>\nspecifically designed to address the problems associated with the current scarcity of<br \/>\nliquidity in the marketplace following the regulatory crackdown on financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe objective of the Barry funds is to offer investment solutions leveraging today\u2019s<br \/>\nmarket predicaments and to turn these constraints impacting the performance of<br \/>\ntraditional asset classes into investment opportunities\u201d<\/em> said Bruno Crastes, H2O\u2019s CEO.<br \/>\nThe funds will aim to offer investors new sources of performance and diversification<br \/>\nbenefits.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Barry Funds launch, Vincent Chailley, CIO, H2O Asset Management<br \/>\nadded: <em>\u201cThe current financial system is definitely more robust as systemic financial crises<br \/>\nare much less probable. However it is also characterised by more market distortions and<br \/>\nit is prone to market shocks due to the massive drop in the liquidity provided by banks.<br \/>\nThe lower systemic risk makes these shockwaves less contagious and this pattern can<br \/>\noffer attractive opportunities to flexible and responsive asset managers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Investment rationale of the Barry Funds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>H2O Barry Active Value<\/strong> aims to tap value from the new market environment. When<br \/>\nmarkets are quiet, it invests in money market instruments. When a shock occurs, and as<br \/>\nlong as it is not deemed the result of a fundamental regime change, Barry Active Value<br \/>\nsteps in with a short term trading view.<br \/>\n\u201cIn a way, Barry Active Value brings liquidity to the markets when it is the most needed,<br \/>\nand it is paid for it\u201d explains Loic Guilloux, head of H2O\u2019s New Business Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H2O Barry Short<\/strong> positions itself to gain from sharp rises in global interest rates, while<br \/>\nbenefiting from a carry in excess of cash in-between these upsurges. Above and beyond<br \/>\nits bearish positioning on G4 Govies, the fund derives a part of its value from the brutal<br \/>\nand significant magnitude of interest rates rises, due to the lack of liquidity that banks<br \/>\ncan nowadays provide to Govies markets. Barry Short uses a portfolio of actively<br \/>\nmanaged options that offers a small positive carry over cash before this sizeable one-off<br \/>\nevent takes place.<\/p>\n<p>H2O intends to <strong>launch additional strategies<\/strong> in the Barry range in 2017 and 2018. The next,<br \/>\n<strong>Barry Yield<\/strong>, is a strategy that will derive its revenues from fees paid by banks looking to<br \/>\nget a capital\/liquidity relief benefit by entering into transactions that will decrease their<br \/>\nRisk Weighted Assets (being on Operational, Market or Credit and Counterparty Risks),<br \/>\nhence the cost of capital associated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H2O Barry Active Value and H2O Barry Short, both Irish UCITS, are the first funds<br \/>\nspecifically designed to address the problems associated with the current scarcity of<br \/>\nliquidity in the marketplace following the regulatory crackdown on financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":59728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1809,1687,1743,1655,1690,1651,1711,1437,1691,2243,1889,1952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730"}],"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=59730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}