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Bowmoor Capital builds on positive momentum

Monday, December 01, 2025

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:

London-based systematic fund Bowmoor Capital is up +6.57% year to date through the end of October following another month of positive performance. The fund returned +1.91% for October. These returns put Bowmoor's flagship strategy on pace for another positive year. The fund returned +32.49% in 2024.

The fund continues to outperform its peer group, with the SocGen CTA Index down -1.30% through the end of October and the SocGen Trend Index down -0.40% over the same period.

Global Alpha is a systematic trend-following global macro strategy that uses mathematical processes to identify major price trends in global markets and trades a diversified portfolio of futures markets covering stock markets, interest rates, foreign exchange, metals, energy, grain, soft commodities, and livestock.

Bowmoor is led by Richard Liddle, a former British military officer who served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as a helicopter and fast jet pilot. Following his military career, Liddle worked as an entrepreneur and was part of the Barclays Military Fund Management Scheme. The strategy is based on the work of former Harmonic Capital Partners investment manager Gareth Abbot, who is investment manager and former Bank of America trader Brendan Mulvany, who is head of execution.

The rules-based trading strategy was designed and developed between 2003 and 2006 by Abbot and has been actively running unbroken since 2006.

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