Deutsche Bank is to launch a UCITS-compliant Asia fund with Sloane Robinson, pending regulatory approval, to be issued on Deutsche Bank’s DB Platinum platform.

The fund will be managed by the same investment team responsible for Sloane Robinson’s flagship Asia offering.

“We have seen significant investor appetite for Asian strategies in the UCITS space and Sloane Robinson’s expertise and long-standing success in this area will make this product attractive to investors,” said Stephane Farouze, Deutsche Bank’s global head of fund derivatives.

“This collaboration is a continuation of our overall UCITS strategy to establish relationships with high calibre platforms that are seeking to add absolute return focused managers to their product offering,” said Hugh Sloane, founder and chief executive of Sloane Robinson.

Sloane Robinson manages $7.8 billion of assets, as at 30 November 2010.