Alternative UCITS - expanding your investor universe

Consequently, in order to exploit this interest and to access a wider pool of investors, we are seeing an increasing appetite from hedge fund managers to adapt their strategies for use within a UCITS wrapper.

We consider here why a manager of a traditional offshore hedge fund might decide to establish a UCITS, techniques used by hedge fund managers to conform their strategies to become UCITS compliant and the options available to get a UCITS to market in the most agile and cost effective way.