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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: Salus Alpha’s DMX – Directional Markets Index returned 58.8% YTD to November. So, following investors’ demand, Salus Alpha decided to make the index accessible as a fund as at 1st December.

The resulting Salus Alpha Directional Markets fund employs a directional trend following strategies in multiple time frames and markets. The fund’s objective is to achieve low to negative correlation to traditional long-only investments such as bonds or equities. It tracks the Vienna Stock Exchange listed DMX - Directional Market Index. Since inception of the calculation the DMX displays a performance of approximately 28.40% p.a. with a volatility of 17.88% p.a.

This way Salus Alpha, a Swiss Alternative Investment firm that manages capital for institutional clients and HNWIs, is continuing in its path in the launches of tracker funds for all hedge fund indices tracked by Alternative-Index Ltd, an index specialist 100% owned by Salus Alpha.

Salus Alpha’s other tracker funds manage around €20m (US$27.9m) each:

The Salus Alpha Managed Futures (launched in February 2008) tracks the MFX-Managed Futures Index. The fund targets constant growth of capital at moderate volatility. The fund invests in a portfolio of several managers in the strategies Discretionary Trading, Systematic Trading and Global Macro. It has returned 14.3% YTD to November.

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