Finnish fund manager, Estland & Partners, has this week announced the launch of its first UCITS III-compliant fund – the Estland & Partners Freedom Fund UI.PARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6c

Finnish fund manager, Estland & Partners, has this week announced the launch of its first UCITS III-compliant fund – the Estland & Partners Freedom Fund UI. With USD550 million in AUM, the firm already runs three successful systemic CTA funds: Estland & Partners Freedom, Estland & Partners Global XL and Estland & Partners Alpha Trend. The new Germany-domiciled UCITS fund will look to replicate the latter two managed futures strategies and provide investors (Germany to begin with, other European jurisdictions to follow) with exposure in equity indices, interest rates, currencies and commodity indices. The fund will use a total return swap provided by Newedge Group’s UCITS platform; Newedge is a 50-50 joint venture between Societe General and Credit Agricole CIB. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing will be custodians, whilst one of Germany’s largest independent investment companies, Universal Investment, will act as the fund’s Investment Company and administrator.