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News Release
Schroders unveils Multi-Asset strategy
for all economic environments
28 November 2013
Schroders is today announcing the launch of its Strategic Beta Fund, an innovative multi-asset fund
that aims to deliver stable performance in a variety of market environments.
Strategic Beta is managed by Matthias Scheiber, Multi-Asset Fund Manager, and is designed to target
a return of sterling cash plus 3% p.a. over rolling 5 year periods. It invests in a broad range of assets
and uses a risk weighting approach to create a more diversified portfolio.
Matthias Scheiber, Multi-Asset Fund Manager, comments:
“The Strategic Beta Fund uses our Multi-Asset philosophy of building portfolios that focus on risk
allocations. It benefits from a balanced exposure to economic growth, inflation, and defensive assets,
as well as strategies that capture behavioural and other market inefficiencies. Strategic Beta is an
unconstrained application of our risk-based investment philosophy. It uses an active approach in
seeking to generate returns in strong markets and aims to protect the capital value in weak markets. ”
Matthias joined Schroders in 2011 as a Multi-Asset Fund Manager. He plays a leading role alongside
a team of over 100 investment professionals based throughout the world collectively managing over
US$83 billion in clients’ assets (as at 30 September 2013).
Mark Humphreys, Head of UK Strategic Solutions, comments:
“Pension schemes are looking for ways to generate growth above their liabilities without taking on too
much risk. The Strategic Beta Fund’s diversification across a number of risk factors should help to
smooth the path of returns for investors, and its active approach provides flexibility to generate stable
returns under different market conditions. In an environment characterised by uncertainty, we believe
the Strategic Beta Fund can help UK pension schemes achieve positive returns in a risk-controlled
manner.”
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Schroders plc
Schroders is a global asset management company with £256.7 billion (EUR307.2 billion/$415.8 billion)
under management as at 30 September 2013. Our clients are major financial institutions including
pension funds, banks and insurance companies, local and public authorities, governments, charities,
high net worth individuals and retail investors.
With one of the largest networks of offices of any dedicated asset management company, we operate
from 37 offices in 27 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. Schroders
has developed under stable ownership for over 200 years and long-term thinking governs our
approach to investing, building client relationships and growing our business.
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