Standard Life Investments (SLI) has launched its Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund to retail investors providing them with access to institutional investment strategies.
The benchmark for the fund is UK six month sterling LIBOR and it aims to outperform by an additional 5% per annum gross of fees, over a rolling three year period. The fund is designed to exploit inefficiencies across markets and to maximise global risk-adjusted returns. It will invest in traditional investments such as equities, bonds and foreign exchange and advanced techniques such as relative value, duration, credit spreads, inflation and volatility strategies. The fund will be run by SLI’s Multi-Asset Investing team which already runs the institutional GARS fund. Since launch in J...
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