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From Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: A successful CTA with offices in Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein and Dubai, is looking to expand its client base and its staff.

AIMhedge Global Diversified Fund (EUR) is a single manager hedge fund (CTA). Employing managed futures, AIMhedge trades on an automated basis. The trading program uses a trend following strategy with built-in stringent risk management features.

“AIMhedge’s trading program automatically scans 62 financial and commodity futures markets worldwide and capitalizes on medium to long term trends,” said COO Martin Rothe to Opalesque. “Once positions are taken on the long or short side of a market the paramount objective is to manage the risk and to protect capital. This principle takes advantage of major changes in the marketplace, yet ensures that only small bets on any individual market are taken.”

AIMhedge Management’s strategy was down 4.98% in July 2008 but has achieved 26.62% YTD and a cumulated return of 84.73% (18.69% p.a.) since inception of trading in 2005 (the fund itself was launched in December 2006 and has annualised 29.458% since.) The AUM is $29.22m.

“The first quarter of this year was dominated by three big moves in the capital market: a surge in energy prices, a buoyant food sector and a weak stock market,” said Martin Rothe. “AIMhedge’s trading system did not forecast any of these moves but automatically allocated capital on the ......................

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