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Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

Puerto Rico-based hedge fund Strategic Funds LLC announced the launch of The Strategic Commodity Fund, a new private hedge fund that marries traditional and digital economy exposure by pairing opportunistic trading in conventional exchange-traded commodities with more difficult-to-access commodity exposure through global equities.

According to a press release from the alternative investment management firm, the new fund deploys a bidirectional, algorithmic trading approach that will serve investors in new and exciting ways.

The Strategic Funds has identified a new category of commodities, or "Commodities 2.0." The fund is designed to evolve with the current shifts in energy consumption, climate and demographic-driven trends in agriculture, and the digitization of the economy, it said.

The Strategic Commodity Fund adds an equity component, which will target green energy, the rise of data as a commodity, the emergence of digital assets, and the influence of changes to transportation and energy markets.

"The world doesn't just run on oil anymore, today, it runs on oil and data," said Nikolas Joyce, Chief Information Officer at The Strategic Funds. "We believe that the 2020s will be a decade of major transition, as human civilization begins the unprecedented process of changing how we get our energy. We are seeing a move out of pollutive hydrocarbons ......................

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