Eclectica Asset Management was an investment company founded in 2005 by Hugh Hendry and Simon Batten, who purchased the management contract of the Eclectica fund from Odey.
The fund closed in 2017 due to consistently poor annual performances since 2009.
Fund manager heavyweights Hugh Hendry and Anthony Bolton have clashed on the outlook for China.
Hugh Hendry's Eclectica has been referenced in a bitter lawsuit between BHP Billiton and $40bn hostile target Potash.
Cazenove's head of multi-manager Marcus Brookes has increased the cash weighting in his £467m Multi-Manager Diversity fund of funds, and bolstered its exposure to managers uncorrelated to mainstream markets.
Hugh Hendry's Eclectica will launch its new absolute return fund on 31 December.
Eclectica plans to create a daily dealing absolute return product for the retail market, utilising founder Hugh Hendry's decade-long track record in the space, Investment Week understands.
Eclectica's Hugh Hendry is shorting insurance companies in his portfolios and has only one banking p...
Last week Eclectica Agriculture saw an almost 20% drop as resources- and gold-related vehicles felt t...