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B. G., Opalesque Geneva:

Picton Mahoney Asset Management has launched the new Picton Mahoney Fortified Inflation Opportunities Alternative Fund, which will offer three classes of units to the Canadian public. It is designed to provide investors with a long-term strategic allocation to inflation protection.

The fund will invest in long and short positions in asset classes that seek to generate returns from rising inflation and apply risk management tools to actively adjust exposure.

"As a CEO and a consumer, I understand that Canadians are highly aware of the impact of inflation on their daily lives," said David Picton, President and CEO. "While inflation is cooling, our team believes we are entering a new era of shorter and more frequent boom-and-bust economic cycles driven by repeated periods of rising and moderating inflation. Investors will need to manage those impacts."

"Inflation is hard to time and the magnitude and stickiness of inflation also difficult to forecast, hence the need to have inflation protection hard-wired into a portfolio," said Neil Simons, Head of Multi-Strategy, Picton Mahoney. "We believe inflation-sensitive exposure should be embedded in a robust strategic asset allocation and this belief is based on years of research and analysis on how different asset classes perform in a variety of inflationary environments."

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