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Systematic macro manager QCM launches UCITS on Montlake platform with 0% management fee for early-bird investors

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

Quality Capital Management (QCM), a UK-based global systematic macro investment manager, has launched its Alpha Financials Programme on the MontLake UCITS platform, an independent platform for UCITS funds.

Founded in 1995, QCM, which has offices in the UK and Japan, has successfully navigated through 20 years of wide-ranging market cycles, dealing also with systemic shocks from abnormal events such as the global credit crisis. During the period QCM has generated for its investors a cumulative return of 560% in its flagship product. QCM’s founder, Aref Karim, formerly spent thirteen years with the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he pioneered their first multi-billion dollar alternative investment portfolio. The company provides actively-run and differentiated systematic global macro solutions. The decisions are made and executed using fully systematic and quantitative models, thus avoiding emotional and cognitive biases. QCM offers two main programmes: QCM Global Diversified Programme (GDP) that includes financial and commodity futures, and QCM Alpha Financials Programme (AFP) that trades financial futures only.

The newly launched QCM AFP UCITS Fund will run the firm’s Alpha Financials Programme, ......................

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