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Schroder launches Gold and Metals Fund

  • United Arab Emirates: Monday, July 14 - 2008 at 12:59
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Schroders has launched the Schroder Alternative Solutions Gold and Metals Fund, a new fund which will be co-managed by Robert Howell and Paula Bujia.

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  • Stéphan Battistella, the Head of Middle East Business Development, Dubai.
    Stéphan Battistella, the Head of Middle East Business Development, Dubai.
The Fund aims to offer investors a pure exposure to gold and other metals in a long only, unleveraged, actively managed, index-unconstrained fashion. The fund has a return objective of outperforming the performance benchmark comprising of 75% of the Rogers metals Total Return Index and 25% Rogers Gold Total Return Index, with lower volatility. This performance benchmark has a weighting of 50% base metals and 50% in precious metals, with gold having a weighting of 35%.

Stéphan Battistella, the Head of Middle East Business Development in Dubai, said:

"We see many compelling reasons to maintain an exposure to gold and industrial metals. Gold has a lack of correlation to many other asset classes, which makes it an important component of any diversified portfolio. Furthermore, after more than two decades of not having to worry about a sustained uptrend in inflation, the world is once more in an inflationary era. Gold has, in the past, been considered as offering protection against rising inflation. Within the industrial metals sector, there are many different commodities with very attractive long term fundamentals. Overall, costs of production are rising everywhere and the demand for industrial metals from emerging economies, such as China and India, has been met with limited supply due to underinvestment in new mines and exhaustion of existing mines over the last two decades."
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Schroders plc:
Schroders is a global asset management company with $259.6bn under management as at 31 March 2008. Our clients are major financial institutions including pension funds, banks and insurance companies, local and public authorities, governments, charities, high net worth individuals and retail investors.

We apply our specialist asset management skills in serving the needs of our clients worldwide.

With one of the largest networks of offices of any dedicated asset management company and over 250 portfolio managers and analysts covering all the major investment markets, we offer our clients a comprehensive range of products and services.

Schroder Investment Management Limited is regulated in Dubai by the Dubai Financial Services Authority and entered on the DFSA register under Firm Reference Number: F000513.

For further information, please contact:
Stéphane Battistella
Head Middle East Business Development
Tel: +971 4 704 9101

William Wells
Head of Retail Sales - Middle East
Tel: +971 4 704 9102

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