Quaero Capital’s Real Assets fund has achieved UCITS status following a three-year incubation period.
The fund, which is also known as the Argos Real Assets Fund, primarily invests in equities and REITs in developed markets across the world to provide exposure to infrastructure, real estate, forestry assets and agricultural assets.
Real Assets, which was launched in 2012 and is run by Marc Ebert, is an actively managed, conservative, long-only, thematic equity fund, according to Quaero.
Quaero CEO Jean Keller commented: “I’m delighted that after just over three years we can now offer our Real Assets fund within a UCITS structure, given the importance attached to such status by fund selectors.”
“Real assets such as infrastructure, real estate and agricultural land are offering exposure to very regular cash flows directly attached to ownership of land through a diversified portfolio of liquid stocks. This provides investors some interesting hedge in period of economic hardship and inflation.”
Real Assets is the fifth Quaero mutual fund to achieve UCITS status. The others, all under the Argos banner, are marketed thematically, in areas such as yield opportunities and international equities.
