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Fund Launches: ING Investment Management launches Alternative Beta strategy

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

ING Investment Management will launch a new investment strategy; Alternative Beta. This concept offers the benefits of attractive hedge fund returns against low costs, with high liquidity and full transparency of the investments. With Alternative Beta ING IM has developed a strategy that generates hedge fund like returns without actually investing in hedge funds. It makes hedge-fund-like returns accessible for a wide range of investors, including retail clients.

ING Alternative Beta strategy is a unique concept that combines attractive returns with low volatility and low correlation with other asset classes. The strategy has daily subscriptions and redemptions, high liquidity and full transparent investments. It is a concept developed and managed by the experts of the Structured Products team of ING Investment Management. The investment team has over 10 years of experience in developing and managing different structured funds and executing derivatives trades. With a total AUM of almost 9 billion euros ING IM is one of the leading structured fund houses in Europe.

Fund manager Frank van Etten explains the strategy as follows: “The ING Alternative Beta concept offers many advantages for our clients. It is a non-traditional investment opportunity, which means that we can offer access to a wide range of market exposures. The product includes less common investments like volatility, small cap exposure and commodities, in addition to the more standard equity and fixe......................

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