Este fundo, cujo lançamento agendado para 2009 foi adiado devido a complicações com a respectiva adaptação às normas UCITS III, é uma carteira de valores com uma gestão activa que investe em acções globais, obrigações, matérias-primas e mercadorias, hedge funds, mercados monetários e imobiliário.

O fundo visa oferecer aos investidores um retorno absoluto a longo prazo, através da diversificação pelas classes de activos, proporcionando-lhes a preservação e o crescimento do capital, tendo a Castlestone afirmado que o fundo de investimento foi criado para ser uma componente central das carteiras dos investidores.

O fundo – domiciliado em Dublin e com uma variedade de classes de acções incluindo denominações em libras esterlinas e em euros – tem actualmente 40% investido em acções globais, 30% em investimentos alternativos e 10% em activos reais como o imobiliário e as matérias-primas ou mercadorias. Inclui ainda 10% em rendimento fixo e 10% em numerário.

O fundo de investimento IQ é a terceira oferta que a Castlestone apresentou aos investidores, tendo já lançado as versões UCITS dos fundos Aliquot Agriculture e Aliquot Commodity.

Firms that this week , announcing plans Newcits are Toscafund , the GCM Trycon in Frankfurt, Cheyne Capital and Castlestone Management, while the Spanish Merchant Capital and the platform Tresses also allied in an investment fund for short and long term.

According to Reuters, Toscafund prepares to launch UCITS a version of its strategy hedge fund of 110 million dollars with small and middle limits , responding to demand from private customers.

This will have the same name as the hedge fund - Tosca Mid Cap - and the company believes it will be possible to replicate the strategy in the shape of the UCITS . The company indicated that it will be your first and last launch UCITS format .

Also according to Reuters , another alternative investment company to enter this space is the Cheyne Capital, which will launch a UCITS fund mergers and acquisitions.

However, in Germany, Trycon is launching an investment fund in the short and long term , called Basic TRYCON Invest HAIG, which seeks income of 8 % to 10 % per annum with a volatility of 6% to 8 %. Will invest in thirty international markets by taking short positions in derivatives and long-term out of stock indices , interest rates , bonds and currencies.
"With the UCITS III structure , we retain the benefits of an absolute return strategy , while offering the additional advantages of a well- regulated, particularly in terms of transparency and liquidity , "said Michael Guenther , executive director of Trycon , on the new fund.

In another area, Merchant Capital is raising private, in Europe , with high liquid assets to fund its short and long term, the European Equity Merchant . In a market neutral strategy , long positions assume twenty and twenty short positions in a world of six hundred shares. Its gross exposure will not exceed 180%, while its net exposure does not exceed plus or minus 20%.

The fund will be managed by Merchant Capital, but Robert Maxwell, the Spanish Tresses , will act as investment advisor .

" We believe that an investment fund of this kind, within the framework of UCITS provided by Merchant Capital, will be very well received by investors seeking consistent returns with low volatility , "said Maxwell.

The Merchant Capital , which acts as a platform for hedge funds to launch UCITS funds , predicted to be involved in more releases in the near future .

"The fund 's investment Tresses is a great example of our desire to provide innovative investment managers and operational support essential regulator to quickly market their ideas in terms of investment, " said George Cadbury, a director of Merchant Capital . " We are now at an advanced stage of discussion with a number of other management companies, investment funds, seriously evaluating the possibility of being used to launch UCITS funds this year. "