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Third Party UCITS Platforms - 2019 Update

The UCITS platform landscape continues to evolve, with 2019 another year of significant change. Lyxor have grown their platform to be the largest alternative UCITS platform with AUM of $5bn. Overall platform hosted AUM is sitting at $30.9bn, a reduction from last year’s figure of $32.4bn.

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Updated 21 days ago

Monthly Fund Performance Report - December 2019

The result of the UK election saw some sharp moves for funds with exposure to UK assets. This capped a generally good year for the alternative UCITS sector, with the AH Global Index gaining almost 5%. As always, performance dispersion was high with 80% separating the top and bottom funds.

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London: Equity Long Short UCITS Conference

Our flagship equity strategies conference will take place on the 5th February at the Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London. On the day you will see a mix of discretionary and systematic, traditional long/short and market neutral equity strategies, with panel discussions and breakout meetings to follow.

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Top Funds Last 30 Days

1M
Odey Special Situations Equity Long / Short 8.4
Franklin K2 Wellington Technology Long Sho... Equity Long / Short 6.0
Polar Capital UK Absolute Equity Equity Long / Short 5.8
DWS Gold Plus Commodities 5.5
DECALIA Muse Equity Long / Short 5.5
Linden Core Fund 2X Managed Futures 5.1
Jupiter International Financials Equity Long / Short 4.8
Alger SICAV - Alger Dynamic Opportunities ... Equity Long / Short 4.5
Fulcrum Multi Asset Trend Fund Managed Futures 4.5
U Access (IRL) Shannon River Equity Long / Short 4.3

Top Funds Year to Date

YTD
Odey Special Situations Equity Long / Short 7.1
Jupiter International Financials Equity Long / Short 6.5
Franklin K2 Wellington Technology Long Sho... Equity Long / Short 5.7
Fulcrum Multi Asset Trend Fund Managed Futures 5.7
Alger SICAV - Alger Dynamic Opportunities ... Equity Long / Short 5.5
Progressive Tulip Trend UCITS Managed Futures 5.2
DECALIA Muse Equity Long / Short 5.0
Linden Core Fund 2X Managed Futures 4.9
AQR Delphi Long-Short Equity Strategy UCITS Equity Long / Short 4.9
U Access (IRL) Shannon River Equity Long / Short 4.9

Largest New Launches (12M)

AUM
Lyxor / Bridgewater Core Global Macro Macro £853m
JPM Global Macro Sustainable Macro £448m
Lumyna - Sandbar Global Equity Market Neutral U... Market Neutral £400m
ASI HFRI-I Liquid Alternatives UCITS Fund Multi Strategy £398m
SEB Bodenholm Absolute Return Equity Long / Short £289m
AXA World Funds - Chorus Systematic Macro Macro £156m
Franklin K2 Bardin Hill Arbitrage UCITS Fund Event Driven £98m
U Access (IRL) Shannon River Equity Long / Short £93m

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AXA World Funds - Chorus Systematic Macro
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Acadian Multi-Asset Absolute Return
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Cheyne Convertibles Absolute Return Fund
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PGIM QMAW Keynes Systematic Absolute Return
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IAM Black and White Innovation UCITS Fund
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Laffitte Dynamic Strategies UCITS
Uploaded 20 Dec 2019
Laffitte Risk Arbitrage UCITS
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Insight - BNY Mellon Absolute Return Global Con...
Uploaded 18 Dec 2019

UCITS Universe AUM

30 September 2019
£235.5b -18% YOY

Strategy

Funds AUM
Equity Long / Short 183 31%
Credit 75 13%
Macro 72 12%
Market Neutral 63 11%
Multi Strategy 63 11%
Managed Futures 45 8%
Event Driven 37 6%
Multi Asset 34 6%
Volatility Arbitrage 16 3%
FX 7 1%
Commodities 5 1%
Macro £50.9b 24%
Multi Asset £38.7b 18%
Equity Long / Short £34.7b 16%
Credit £29.5b 14%
Multi Strategy £22.4b 10%
Market Neutral £16.3b 8%
Event Driven £11.4b 5%
Managed Futures £6.2b 3%
Volatility Arbitrage £4.3b 2%
FX £900m 0%
Commodities £325m 0%

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