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Overview

Winton Alma Diversified Macro Fund aims to generate absolute returns and provide valuable diversification across a range of market environments. The fund is designed to be a cornerstone CTA allocation, exhibiting low long-term correlation to traditional assets.
The fund’s management is delegated to Winton Capital Management.

Share Class

NAV

Cumulative Performance (%)

Fund Inception 30 June 2010

Daily Monthly Ytd 1Yr 3Yr 5Yr Incept. Incept.Date

The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. The investment return and the principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.


Strategy & Manager

Fund Strategy

The Investment Strategy is a systematic strategy based on the Winton Diversified Macro Strategy and adapted to comply with UCITS. The fund invests in over 140 liquid futures and FX markets across fixed income, equity indices, FX, rates and commodities.

The fund’s offering is the product of 25 years of research and development. The fund combines a core trend following allocation with diversifying signals to trade major markets and is largely uncorrelated to traditional asset classes like equities and bonds.


Investment Manager

Winton Capital Management is a global investment manager founded in 1997 by David Harding specialising in systematic trading thourgh scientific research and statistical analysis techniques to develop proprietary trading systems for the international asset markets.

Winton have sought to create an investment edge over the past quarter century through a focus on quantitative investment research and strategy development.


Key Persons

David Harding
Founder & Executive Chair
David has been at the forefront of systematic investment management for 30 years. He has founded two successful investment management companies: the first, AHL, was sold to Man Group in 1994; he launched the second, Winton, in 1997. A graduate of Cambridge University, David received a first-class Honours degree in natural sciences, specialising in theoretical physics. He founded Winton on the continuing belief that there exist long-term rewards for scientific research into financial markets.

Simon Judes
Co- CIO
Simon leads the development of Winton’s investment strategies and is responsible for the firm’s bespoke products. Previously, Simon was Winton’s Futures Strategy Manager, responsible for all futures trading systems. Since joining Winton in 2008, he has worked on projects including the design of several commodity and equity systems. Simon has a first-class honours degree from Oxford University, as well as a PhD in physics from Columbia University, where his thesis focused on string theory and cosmology.

Carsten Schmitz
Co- CIO
Carsten leads the development of Winton’s investment strategies and is responsible for the firm’s PM Platform initiative. Prior to this, Carsten oversaw the management of Winton’s research division. Carsten joined Winton in 2008, after earning a Diploma with distinction from RWTH Aachen in Germany and a PhD with distinction from the University of Zurich. For his PhD and postdoctoral position, Carsten worked at the DESY collider facility in Hamburg, analysing data from high-energy particle collisions.


Statistics & Commentary

Performance

The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. The investment return and the principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Investment Manager's Commentary

as of 30/08/2024

Fund

The fund declined in a difficult month for trend-following CTAs due to sharp reversals in equity indices and the Japanese yen.

Losses were mitigated due to the fund starting the month towards the bottom of its volatility range, with long equity and short yen positions constrained by the strategy’s risk management framework. Other parts of the portfolio also offered valuable diversification. The core trend-following strategy made money from long pound, gold and coffee positions and shorts in the soy complex, while the non-trend component profited from fundamental models and mean reversion.


Facts & Documents

Facts

Fund Domicile: Luxembourg

Fund Type: UCITS SICAV

Fund Launch: 30 June 2010

Base Currency: USD

Depositary, Administrator, Transfert Agent: CACEIS Investor Services Bank S.A.

Dealing: Each day with a 1-day notice

Cut-off time: 3 pm CET

Management Company: Alma Capital Investment Management

Investment Manager: Winton Capital Management Ltd

Countries where the fund is registered:
Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Singapore, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden

Sustainability-related disclosures:
The information related to the integration of sustainability risks and to the potential adverse sustainability impacts at the sub-fund level can be found in the prospectus of the Fund.

Identifiers:

I1C-C
ISIN: LU0627756538   Ticker: DBSI1CC LX    Launch: 8 Jun 2011

I1C-E
ISIN: LU0462954396   Ticker: DBSI1CE LX    Launch: 30 Jun 2011

I1C-G
ISIN: LU0462954552   Ticker: DBSI1CG LX    Launch: 10 Nov 2011

I1C-U
ISIN: LU0462954479   Ticker: DBSI1CU LX    Launch: 30 Jun 2010

I1D-G
ISIN: LU1106524371   Ticker: DBSI1DG LX    Launch: 24 Sep 2014

I5C-U
ISIN: LU1125015336   Ticker: DBPI5CU LX    Launch: 31 Oct 2014

I5D-G
ISIN: LU1266813309   Ticker: DBPSI5D LX    Launch: 26 Aug 2015

R0C-E
ISIN: LU0871989108   Ticker: DBSROCE LX    Launch: 30 Oct 2013

R0C-G
ISIN: LU0871989017   Ticker: DBSROCG LX    Launch: 17 Sep 2014

R0C-U
ISIN: LU0871988985   Ticker: DBPR0CU LX    Launch: 10 Jun 2015

R1C-A
ISIN: LU0559381560   Ticker: DBSR1CA LX    Launch: 9 Feb 2011

R1C-C
ISIN: LU0627757692   Ticker: DBSR1CC LX    Launch: 8 Jun 2011

R1C-E
ISIN: LU0462954800   Ticker: DBSRICE LX    Launch: 14 Jul 2010

R1C-G
ISIN: LU0462955013   Ticker: DBSR1CG LX    Launch: 22 Dec 2010

R1C-N
ISIN: LU0935837368   Ticker: DBSR1CN LX    Launch: 19 Jun 2013

R1C-S
ISIN: LU0562753474   Ticker: DBSR1CS LX    Launch: 8 Jun 2011

R1C-U
ISIN: LU0462954982   Ticker: DBSRICU LX    Launch: 14 Jul 2010

R5C-U
ISIN: LU1125015096   Ticker: DBPR5CU LX    Launch: 31 Oct 2014

R6C-E
ISIN: LU1125015922   Ticker: DBPR6CE LX    Launch: 31 Oct 2014

R6C-G
ISIN: LU1125015849   Ticker: DBPR6CG LX    Launch: 31 Oct 2014

R6C-U
ISIN: LU1125015682   Ticker: DBPR6CU LX    Launch: 31 Oct 2014

Documents

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