Atlas Responsible Investors launches UCITS version of long/short equity impact fund

Broadens access to the strategy

Valeria Martinez
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Parisian hedge fund Atlas Responsible Investors has launched the UCITS version of its long/short equity impact strategy, providing access to a wider range of investors.

The strategy, launched for family offices in 2019, aims to generate returns irrespective of market conditions and only invests in companies which align with the firm's ‘Eleven Sustainable Investment Goals'. "Launching a UCITS fund is a natural continuation to offer our unique investment strategy, which has proven its all-weather resilience over the past three years," said Quentin Dumortier, founder and CIO at Atlas.  "We want to capture a source of alpha which comes from being long the companies that are aligned with structural sustainability trends and being short companies that are ...

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