Lyxor and Martin Currie have announced the launch of the Lyxor / Martin Currie China Dragon Fund Ltd.

The fund is a totally new non-benchmarked Long/Short strategy available exclusively through Lyxor and Martin Currie.

Martin Currie manages US$ 4.7 billion in dedicated Greater China strategies, and is one of the largest international investors in the domestic Chinese A-share market. The company has a China team of 13 analysts and portfolio managers based in Edinburgh and Shanghai. It has a heavy emphasis on bottom-up research, visiting over 1,000 companies in China each year.

The fund’s manager, James Chong, has over 15 years of investment experience and currently manages over US $400 million across China multi-cap products, delivering significant outperformance.

Allan MacLeod, managing director of sales, marketing and client services at Martin Currie said: “The fund has run as a model portfolio since February 2008 returning 12.6%. The fund has protected capital, generated alpha and delivered the returns with around one-third of the volatility of the market – all things it aims to achieve. We have a long and successful relationship of working with Lyxor. Our collaboration started in 2002 with the launch of the Lyxor / Martin Currie Japan AR Fund, and was followed by the Lyxor / Martin Currie Global Resources Fund. We are delighted that the China Dragon fund is joining this suite.”