Kepler Partners has launched the KLS Athos Event Driven fund on its Kepler Liquid Strategies UCITS platform, raising $70m in external capital, Investment Week can reveal.
The fund is the sixth to be the added to the alternative UCITS platform, which now counts $1.4bn in assets under management. It is managed by Athos Capital from Hong Kong and is based on the firm's flagship equity-based Asian event driven strategy. The strategy allocates to short-dated and liquid hard-catalyst events, with a significant weighting in Asia. Kepler Partners: Five top trusts with the fastest-narrowing discounts The flagship fund has returned 7.7% on an annualised basis with a volatility of 5.4% since launch in 2012, according to the firm. Athos Capital was co-fou...
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