London-headquartered asset and wealth manager Schroders has launched a new onshore version of the Luxembourg-registered Schroder International Selection Quantitative Equity Products Fund, to make it more available to retail clients.

London-headquartered asset and wealth manager Schroders has launched a new onshore version of the Luxembourg-registered Schroder International Selection Quantitative Equity Products Fund, to make it more available to retail clients.

The QEP Investment team, led by Justin Abercrombie, will adopt the same investment strategy as the existing Luxembourg-based fund and will analyse a broad investment scope of over 4,000 companies, across emerging markets on a daily basis. Stock selection will focus on two key return drivers by looking at company valuations and business quality to decide if companies are investment worthy.

The investment desk will also use a country risk framework to highlight any issues that may be relevant in the countries in which they invest, according to a statement from Schroders.

“The Schroder ISF QEP Global Emerging Markets [fund] has performed strongly since its launch over two years ago.  We believe there is a lack of viable options for UK investors in this area and have launched an onshore version of the fund specifically to meet the needs of the UK advisory market," said Robin Stoakley, managing director, UK Intermediary.

“Since launching the stand-alone emerging markets strategy in early 2012, we have attracted new client assets of over £1.7billion ($2.8 billion). We feel it is a natural step to extend this proposition to the onshore UK market,” said Abercrombie.  Schroders recently reported net inflows of £4.8 billion taking assets under management to a record £271.5 billion at the end of June 2014.