The latest news in investment offerings, financial products and other services relevant to wealth advisors and their clients.

Further, 3iQ Corp
UAE-based digital asset investment firm, Further Asset Management (“Further”), has launched a hedge fund that offers risk-managed exposure to digital assets, including bitcoin. 

Further is launching the fund alongside Toronto-headquartered 3iQ Corp, which offers digital asset investment solutions.

The fund, seeded with $100 million from institutional, family office and sovereign investors, is called Further x 3iQ Alpha Digital. It adopts a market-neutral strategy.

“This fund directly addresses the core challenges institutional investors face when accessing digital assets,” Pascal St-Jean, president and CEO of 3iQ, said. “It provides a secure and efficient way to allocate within a framework that meets the highest standards of institutional due diligence. We believe this investment solution represents a true evolution in the market, empowering institutions and family offices to confidently pursue double-digit potential returns through a disciplined, risk-managed approach.”

Faisal Al Hammadi, managing partner at Further, said: “We’re providing institutional-grade, risk-managed and scalable access to digital assets, including bitcoin, within a structure that has successfully passed the rigorous institutional due diligence of leading global capital allocators.”

Amundi
Amundi has launched the Amundi Responsible Investing Euro Credit Biodiversity fund, available to both institutional and retail investors. The fund is designed for those seeking a thematic biodiversity allocation within the euro credit bond universe, it said.

Separately, CPRAM, an Amundi subsidiary, has launched CPR Invest – Biodiversity, a Luxembourg-domiciled fund. Previously, the fund had been aimed at French investors.

Managed by Alban de Faÿ, head of responsible fixed income investments, and Daniela Montezuma, credit portfolio manager, the Amundi Responsible Investing Euro Credit Biodiversity Fund delivers financial characteristics comparable to the traditional credit market. However, it also seeks exposure to sectors with high biodiversity stakes and integrates biodiversity preservation, restoration and ESG criteria into its issuer-selection process and portfolio construction, Amundi said.

“Biodiversity loss is a material economic risk as it disrupts supply chains, lowers productivity and devalues real assets. At the same time, investing in the biodiversity theme is gaining traction and can be channelled through tailored fixed income investment solutions,” Amaury d’Orsay, head of the fixed income platform at Amundi, said.

The fund is available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

CPRAM
Turning to the CPR Invest – Biodiversity fund, CPRAM said the goal is to beat the MSCI World Index over the long term through active management of international equities while integrating biodiversity and ESG criteria into the security-analysis and selection process.

CPRAM said it has formalised a methodology for analysing companies’ performance on biodiversity, developed with the scientific support of the French National Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle), and structured around three pillars: land, water and climate.