Man GLG launches long-short Asia Pacific fund for Swan

Benchmark agnostic

James Baxter-Derrington
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Man GLG has launched a long-short Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) fund for Andrew Swan, its second for the manager who joined from BlackRock in August 2020.

The Man GLG Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Equity Alternative fund will be led by head of Asia equities (ex-Japan) Swan and supported by a dedicated team of five analysts, who seek to "capture the turning points in company earnings revisions". It will be available to UK retail investors as a UCITS-compliant ICAV. Update: Man GLG launches Asian equity fund for Andrew Swan The benchmark-agnostic fund will be comprised of 50-100 all-cap stocks, which the firm said will allow the fund to "dynamically shift across styles based on macro conditions". Swan, who also manages the long-only Man G...

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