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Family office GWM launches first Ucits fund
GWM Institutional, a division of multi-family office GWM Group, has ventured into the hedge fund space with the launch of its first Ucits product.
The group’s 7H Absolute hedge fund is a Luxembourg-registered, Ucits III long/short European equity fund and is targeted to deliver positive absolute returns irrespective of equity market conditions with a time scope roughly between 12-15 months.
To help manage this fund CEO of GWM, Peter Sartogo, has taken on Simone Chelini and Pietropaolo Rinaldi, both co-founders and fund managers of the Unifortune Albatross Fund.
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Editor's view: 8 February 2012
Speculative moves, a perceived landgrab and a potential bidding war in the hedge fund sector have all opened up in recent weeks
Comment: Julian Korek
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