Castlestone Management is to launch a Dublin-listed UCITS III commodities fund.
The Aliquot Active Commodity Index (UCITS) fund will provide exposure to the commodity markets, by investing in a range of financial instruments such as futures contracts, options, swaps, ETFs and ETCs. In so doing, it will aim to mirror the exposures of the existing offshore Aliquot Commodity fund. Castlestone says the current case for commodities is based on a number of pillars. It notes that commodity futures are negatively correlated with equities; that over the longer term, commodities have maintained their value; that commodity futures are historically correlated with expected and...
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