Man, a world-leading alternative asset manager, today announced the launch of Man Synergy Ltd, a product which offers access to a combination of leading long/short equity managers and the AHL Diversified programme. This powerful synergy of two proven investment approaches has the potential to deliver strong performance and provide crucial downside protection across diverse market conditions.
As a result of their diverse investment approaches the strategies exhibit two very different return streams with a low correlation to each other. AHL seeks to profit from opportunities across a variety of markets through an entirely systematic and quantitative trading strategy while long/short equity benefits from opportunities arising from equity market inefficiencies using various investment approaches. As such, they offer a potentially excellent combination to bring together within a portfolio.
Active management is a key component of the Man Synergy portfolio. An experienced portfolio manager is responsible for continually assessing and adjusting the allocations and exposures within the portfolio to ensure that it is continually well-positioned to capture profit opportunities.
Man Synergy Ltd can be accessed through a choice of structures: either capital guaranteed bonds or income bonds. The income bonds offer a coupon payment of 7% p.a. 1 and the capital guarantee provided by Credit Suisse International secures 100% of initial capital at maturity. 2
"Man Synergy Ltd has been designed to meet investor demand in the current environment", said Patrick Merville, CEO of Man Investments Middle East Ltd. "Investors are concerned about the sustainability of a market recovery in the face of sovereign default fears and unsustainable government deficit levels. Whether this uncertainty continues or the probability of prolonged economic recovery increases, they are now looking for investments that are capable of delivering robust returns over the long term as well as improving crucial downside protection during difficult market conditions."
