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By Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London:
Geneva-based Peak Partners SA has just announced the forthcoming launch of the Mont Blanc Dynamic Fund, a fund that combines the advantages of active hedge fund style picking, continual risk monitoring, segregated trust structure, enhanced liquidity (bi-monthly) and full transparency by using managed accounts. The launch date is due on 1st May 2009.
This fund of funds, which is a Luxembourg SICAV, is actively rotated (up to twice a month) using the HFR Managed Account Platform which offers enhanced liquidity to asset allocators.
The fund's allocation is based on a proprietary forward-looking model that analyses 22 different factors in real time to generate predictive investment signals for a two week time period.
Robert Seiler, partner and investment manager, told Opalesque that Peak Partners has been using managed accounts for a long time, and only uses them to invest in liquid strategies such as long/short equities, global macro, CTAs and other liquid relative value strategies.
"Many of the managers in these liquid strategies, we found, are mostly beta players - so we don't use the same selection methodology we use for other strategies, we use mainly the HFR platform, and we allocate to them on a tactical basis," he said.
For other, less liquid strategies, the managers use hedge funds; Peak Partners claims to have a particular expertise in credit, distressed and niche strategies su...................... To view our full article Click here
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