Press Release

Macquarie Funds Group launches new UCITS III Funds

London, 01 February 2010

  • Three new funds providing access to strategies focused on emerging markets, emerging markets infrastructure and agricultural commodities
  • Funds add to Macquarie’s UCITS III fund range

Macquarie Funds Group (MFG), the asset management arm of Macquarie Group, has launched three new funds under its UCITS III compliant Luxembourg SICAV umbrella fund, Macquarie Fund Solutions. The funds are:

  • Macquarie Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund
  • Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure Fund, and
  • Macquarie and Rogers™ China Agriculture Fund.

The three funds are intended for public distribution in multiple European and Asian jurisdictions. Currently, the funds are available for public distribution in Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Switzerland and MFG is in the process of registering the funds in the UK. Other European jurisdictions are likely to follow.

“We are pleased to announce the launch of the three UCITS III funds which add to our current fund range available to investors in the UK. The new funds provide investors with access to the expertise of our experienced emerging markets portfolio managers. MFG has a proven track record in managing emerging market equities, infrastructure equities and agricultural commodities from which investors will benefit,” said Philipp Graf, Head of the UK Investment Solutions & Sales team of Macquarie Funds Group.


Macquarie Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund

The Macquarie Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund offers investors risk controlled exposure to investments arising from growth in emerging markets economies through an actively managed emerging markets equity strategy. The Fund is long only and investment decisions are driven by top-down systemic macro analysis combined with bottom-up country and sector allocation. The Fund is benchmarked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The lead portfolio manager of the fund is David Dali. Mr. Dali is a Division Director and a senior Portfolio Manager within Macquarie Funds Group. Mr. Dali was a founding principal of Globalis Investments, LLC (which was acquired by Macquarie Group in October 2008) and has over 19 years of Emerging Markets investment experience.


Macquarie and Rogers™ China Agriculture Fund

The Macquarie and Rogers™ China Agriculture Fund offers investors the opportunity to access the performance of the Macquarie and Rogers™ China Agriculture Index (Bloomberg: MARCAITR Index). The Macquarie and Rogers™ China Agriculture Index is an investable index comprised of agricultural commodities tracked via exchange traded futures on physical commodities. The index is differentiated from other commodity indices by focusing purely on China’s consumption of agricultural commodities.  The fund follows a passive investment strategy by tracking the index itself and the exposure to the index is managed by the global Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Asset Management team of Macquarie Funds Group.

 

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