The new strategy will focus purely on stock selection, with the objective of delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns, independent of equity market evolution.

RAM Active Investments has rolled out a fund designed to earn returns in all market weathers. It is called the RAM (Lux) Systematic Funds - Long/Short Global Equities and is available in a daily-dealing UCITS format.

The fund’s strategy will look to capture market inefficiencies across more than 6,000 stocks in the developed markets through a quantitative, model-driven, fundamental and behavioural-based stock selection process. ("Beta neutral" funds typically enter into long and short trades so the portfolio is not correlated with the movement, or beta, of the market.)

“The aim is to produce consistent risk-adjusted returns with a diversified portfolio of more than 800 stocks at a given time with no correlation to the underlying market,” the firm said in a statement.

The fund will be managed by Thomas de Saint-Seine, Maxime Botti and Emmanuel Hauptmann, senior equity fund managers and founding partners at the firm. They have run its systematic equity strategies since 2007.

“In an environment of increased uncertainty and market volatility, stock selection requires a disciplined approach. Our beta neutral and actively-managed strategy mitigates against market exposure and downside risk,” said de Saint-Seine, who is also chief executive at the firm.

The fund is available in the UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Sweden and Norway.

RAM AI has offered actively-managed, beta-neutral long/short equity funds to institutional and professional investors since 2009. It had more than $776 million in assets under management in beta-neutral long/short strategies at 31 December 2016.