Lyxor Asset Management has entered into a partnership with Quantmetrics Capital for its AIFM managed account platform.

Lyxor, the asset management arm of Société Générale, has teamed up with Quantmetrics Capital to launch the first AIFMD-compliant strategy on its managed account platform.

The strategy, created by the London-based investment advisor Quantmetrics, will be a short-term Commodity Trading Advisor program investing in all assets. Through short-term systematic trading of futures and spot FX positions, it aims to benefit from small and temporary price discrepancies in financial markets in the US, Europe and Asia.

“With the current environment, institutional investors have difficulties to source opportunities that can offer sustainable performance. Our strategies have been developed to generate returns across different market environments. This is especially true during volatility peaks, where we believe our niche strategies can exploit short-term opportunities in highly liquid futures,” said Quantmetrics' founder, James Fowler.

“We are pleased that Lyxor has chosen to partner with Quantmetrics, and we expect institutional investors’ portfolios to benefit from our strategy.”

As of the end of last year, Lyxor Asset Management managed and advised $114.5 billion of assets worldwide. Its managed account platform consists of a range of alternative strategies run by over 80 managers.