Allianz GI launches OEIC version of global Best Styles strategy

Global fund available to retail investors

Allianz Global Investors has launched an OEIC version of its flagship multi-factor Best Styles Global strategy.

Allianz Best Styles Global Equity, which was already available to the firm's institutional clients, is now available widely to UK institutional and retail investors and will soon go live on a number of retail fund platforms. The new fund will be managed by Rainer Tafelmayer, while Klaus Teloeken (pictured) and Benedikt Henne, co-CIOs of the systematic equities team, remain at the helm of the strategy as a whole. The fund follows a factor-based approach to investing, and aims to drive returns by capturing the risk premia associated with investment styles such as value, momentum and sma...