Investec unveils Enhanced Natural Resources fund

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Investec has launched its UK domiciled Enhanced Natural Resources fund which will be run using full UCITs III powers, including the option to short stocks.

The new fund has a total return objective and will combine fundamental analysis of underlying commodity securities with a bottom-up stock-picking approach. It is daily traded and can access a universe of over 30 commodities and 800 resource stocks spanning the whole commodity spectrum, including companies involved in energy, metals and mining and agriculture. It also has flexibility to move between different commodity securities. The term ‘enhanced’ refers to the fund’s UCITS III powers, which enable it to take both long and short positions in the portfolio. This has the potential to p...

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