Architas launches capital protected range

Architas has unveiled the first funds in a new suite of capital protected solutions, launching two multi-manager products offering 70% and 80% downside protection on the highest ever NAV.

The Architas Multi-Manager Diversified Protector 70 and 80 funds aim to provide a combination of growth and protection by shifting allocations between a diversified basket of mainly equity funds, called ‘risky assets’, and group of money market instruments or bonds, dubbed ‘lower risk assets’. Diversified Protector will seek to provide a share price at least equal to 70% or 80% of the highest NAV achieved since the launch of the fund by actively managing between the asset mixes. The closer the share price moves downward towards the protection floor, the greater the proportion of lower ri...