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Opalesque Exclusive: BlueAlpha rolls out agricultural commodity trading strategy into a new fund, the PolarStar Fund

Friday, November 21, 2008

Portfolio manager Uys Meyer told Opalesque about BlueAlpha’s new launch.

BlueAlpha Investment Management rolled its agricultural commodity trading strategy into a new fund, the PolarStar Fund, last month with AUM of $9m.

BlueAlha has been managing the strategy for the last 2.5 years achieving annualized returns in excess of 30%. The fund trades in agricultural product financial contracts listed on regulated global commodity exchanges. The PolarStar Fund employs a fundamental and relative value investment process, driven by supply and demand. The strategy will trade intra- and inter commodity and exchange spreads. Down-side risk is minimized by the active management style of the......................

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