Uncorrelated UCITS have arrived: Picking out the best products for focused portfolios

Top choices for the thoughtful and careful investor

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Given the tumult of 2020, who could have predicted the start of 2021's continuing pandemic (albeit with a vaccine light at the end of the tunnel), shameful Capitol breach and ebullient markets?

The real money investor is faced with quite a quandary as how to position for the so called new normal, which seems to have at its core a wall of government funding driving all assets to perfection pricing levels.  For investors looking for the protections and liquidity profile of UCITS, there is some good news. UCITS have caught on with pedigreed managers as a way to raise capital from investors whom otherwise would not invest.  Among this growing group of UCITS funds is an important sub-set of uncorrelated strategies that can greatly benefit both traditional and alternative portfoli...

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