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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: The Earth Element Fund strategy started trading on 8 Dec 2008 with a limited number of early stage investors. The Fund is managed by Four Elements Capital, a dedicated commodity research house, who held the soft launch for the flagship fund in line with schedule.

The Earth Element Fund targets an absolute return of over 20% per annum. The strategy uses both fundamental and quantitative analysis, taking long and short positions on a large set of commodity futures contracts across all major sectors. The Fund invests in commodities only and follows a systematic investment process offering USD and EUR share classes.

The Fund will be open from January with monthly liquidity and has a US$500m capacity. Four Elements Capital Pte Ltd was incorporated in Singapore on the 14 October 2008 (see our previous exclusive here).

Four Elements Capital’s CIO Lionel Semonin told Opalesque in an earlier interview that the firm would provide investment decisions on a diverse set of commodities including Energy, Metal and Agriculture. The managers will not just be looking at arbitrage opportunities but mainly at both fundamental and quantitative factors for directional plays on commodities – i.e. investing long and short at......................

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