The move is part of the independent global investment manager’s delivery of its original strategy, Certitude Global Investments chief executive Craig Mowll told InvestorDaily.
“Back in July 2010, it was agreed that we were going diversify our product partners and bring new product partners to market that complimented the DNA of our business, which was absolute return funds; basically, strong risk-adjusted returns,” Mr Mowll said.
“By expanding there, we decided to then bring new partners in, such as Marshall Wace GaveKal for the Asian fund and Threadneedle, and we’re now expanding on that,” he said.
“We’ve got a couple of partners to announce quite soon and we’ve got a new fund coming out with Threadneedle shortly.”
More funds would also be announced in the new year.
Mr Mowll said the additions would ensure the company’s thorough coverage of global alternatives, in addition to global debt, as it was already across global equities.
“From a partner perspective, once we’ve made a few announcements, we’ll be quite well set and it will just be a matter of delivering new product with those partners, which will make quite a complete global picture,” he said.
Certitude wanted to avoid bringing smaller boutique managers to market and had instead sought large managers that would be able to “really make a mark” for the company, he said.
