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Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers:

A new fund is launching on the Noviscient platform.

Singapore-based Noviscient is a multi-strategy, quantitative, investment management platform. The Woman Fund is the newest addition to the platform and will leverage the capabilities of the Noviscient platform as well as its own investment team to identify and invest in funds led by women and other diverse managers.

The Woman Fund is managed by AM Access Capital. Managing Director of AM Access Capital, Alexandra McGuigan tells Opalesque New Managers that the goal of the fund is to "enable institutional investors to allocate large tickets of capital to underlying diverse fund managers who will be managing a sleeve of the portfolio for us in a segregated account."

The initial focus will be on long only global equities managers. AM Access has developed a framework that will identify managers in other asset classes in the future.

The approach uses a three-factor approach to choose the managers it includes. In addition to screening for performance, AM Access is also looking for funds that have a long track record and are factor neutral. In addition to choosing factor-neutral strategies, the AM Access team also works to make sure that the chosen strategies have low correlations to each other and can support institutional ticket sizes within their strategies.

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