Cantab Capital Partners is preparing to launch the Cantab Quantitative UCITS Fund. The fund is UCITS III compliant, ensuring high standards of investor protection. Cantab launched their offshore CCP Quantitative Fund in March 2007. After steady growth over what has been a very difficult asset raising environment, firmwide assets now stand at over $1bn. The CCP Quantitative Fund has had an annualised return of 13.3% from inception to date and has shown very low correlation to both equities and the broad hedge fund universe.

Chief Executive Officer Dr Ewan Kirk said: “Cantab’s alpha generation comes from a basket of sophisticated and robust statistical models which are risk managed using a state of the art framework implemented in an unparalleled technology infrastructure. We have a highly diversified return stream, utilising many individual models and more than 250 sub models across a wide range of timescales which harvest medium term momentum, value orientated and short term returns. We trade more than 60 highly liquid macro markets worldwide. We believe that there will be significant demand for a well-structured UCITS vehicle which offers these uncorrelated global macro returns to investors."

Cantab is launching the Cantab Quantitative UCITS Fund on Matrix Group’s platform and expects to open in January 2011.