Ex-Spurs keeper to run Eclectica Futures fund

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Former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Espen Baardsen will co-run a Futures fund set to be launched by Eclectica Asset Management.

Baardsen, who spent five years at the north London club from 1995, will run the Eclectica Agriculture Futures fund alongside Hugh Hendry. The duo have been managing the Eclectica hedge fund – which has had a significant weighting in agriculture – for the last two-and-a-half years. Slated for a June launch, the new fund will have a flexible long-only mandate to invest in global agricultural commodities. Eclectica says it will sit alongside the existing Eclectica Agriculture fund, a long-only global equity fund, which was launched in June 2007 and is up 35% since inception and 18% year ...

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