Liontrust unveils European Absolute Alpha fund for Inglis-Jones and West

Liontrust is preparing to launch another European absolute return fund for European equity stars James Inglis-Jones and Gary West.

The Dublin-based European Absolute Alpha fund is set to come to market in February, and will be modelled on the group's existing Guernsey-domiciled European Long-Short fund and European Absolute Return funds. Liontrust will also launch an Asia Income fund on 5 March, to be managed by Mark Williams. Williams joined Liontrust following its acquisition of emerging market specialists Occam in August last year. Liontrust took on the management contracts of the Occam Emerging Markets Opportunities, Asia Focus, Asia Absolute Return, Sorbus, Europe Focus and Diversity funds on completion o...