Liontrust to launch Water and Agriculture fund

Former BMO managers to run fund

Liontrust Asset Management is planning to launch a Water and Agriculture fund, expecting the product to come to market in Q1 2016.

The fund will be headed up by the team the firm recruited from BMO Global Asset Management earlier this year, consisting of Hugo Rogers, Kristof Bulkai (pictured) and Patrick Cadell, where they previously ran the F&C Water and Agriculture fund. Liontrust launched the Global Strategic Equity fund for the trio to run in July and said it would follow through with a Water and Agriculture product. The fund will be long-only, using the same investment process as the global equity fund that seeks to identify stocks, sectors and countries which are experiencing structural or fundamental chang...