ARCO Investment Management (ARCO) has confirmed that its Absolute Return Fund has been added to both the Netwealth and HUB24 award-winning investment platforms, giving more advisers and their clients access to its proven Australian equity market neutral offering.
ARCO co-founder and portfolio manager George Colman said having the Absolute Return Fund included on the platforms’ investment menus would provide adviser clients with more opportunities to access ARCO’s well-established strategy.
The strategy is part of an increasingly popular investment style that focuses on both compounding investor returns over time and on reducing their drawdown risk through the market cycle.
“Absolute return investing is a simply sensible, intuitive approach to protecting and growing wealth and is an enduring part of a growing number of investment portfolios”, added George Colman.
“We are pleased that a growing number of advisers will now be able to leverage our investment team’s real-world experience in protecting and growing wealth during both normal and abnormal market conditions.”
ARCO has been managing its absolute return strategy since September 2008 for high net worth family, charity and institutional clients. During this time it has delivered a return of over 8% p.a. (after fees) with relatively low volatilty and positive performance in around 80% of the months that the strategy has been operating.
The Absolute Return Fund leverages the experience and skill of ARCO’s highly successful investment team, with more than 120 years cumulative experience in equity research and portfolio management.
The fund recently received a ‘Recommended’ rating from Zenith.