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Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers:

Arion Investment Management, a London based commodity specialist, has launched a new multi-strategy commodity fund platform. Arion Alpha Strategies SPC includes five strategies representing the full complement of Arion's commodities capabilities within a Cayman domiciled platform. The funds include Arion's Multi-Commodity; Copper Arbitrage; Fundamental Systematic Energy; Commodity Spread Trading Program, and Oil Products Trading Program.

The platform also includes an expanded Arion team. Last year, Brent Belote, Portfolio Manager at Cayler Capital and Arion announced a tie up. Belote is now trading as part of Arion's Systematic Energy Strategy and Cayler Capital is getting infrastructure support from Arion's platform. James Purdie, Head of Investor Relations at Arion tells Opalesque New Managers that the firm will likely continue to build out the platform with additional traders over time.

"We've reached a large enough size that we feel like the platform was the best way to provide our capabilities to an institutional audience," Purdie says. "And, it will allow us to do more in terms of the strategies. We're in a part of the cycle now where we expect commodities to run hard for a little while and so if we can bring on people like Brent who have the skill to take advantage of the opportunities, that's what ......................

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