07/07/2014
BNY Mellon IM launches a US equity fund in France
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } BNY Mellon Investment Management (BNY Mellon) is adding to its product range on the French market. The asset management firm on 4 July announced the launch of the BNY Mellon US Opportunities Fund, a new US equity fund for all cap sizes, part of the BNY Mellon Global, plc Sicav, domiciled in Dublin. The fund is managed by The Boston Company Asset Management, LLC, an asset management affiliate of BNY Mellon specialised in active management, and its principal manager, David Daglio, with the assistance of a team of 20 analysis. The new vehicle aims for long-term capital growth, investing primarily in US equities, the asset management firm says in a statement. The fund manager for the BNY Mellon US Opportunities fund seeks out the best investment opportunities from among all publicly-traded US businesses of all cap sizes (small, mid and large), on the basis of fundamental analysis and stock-picking. The fund aims to earn alpha both from a bottom-up and a top-down approach. BNY Mellon US Opportunities Fund has 40 to 60 positions, and is seeking to generate returns of +300 to +500 gross basis points over its comparative benchmark, the S&P 500 index. BNY Mellon does not doubt the attraction this product will hold for French investors, while “the strategy of the US All Cap Opportunistic Equity, on which the fund is based, has already earned solid returns, outperforming the comparative index since its creation in Janyary 2012”, Anne-Laure Frishlander, CEO of BNY Mellon Investment Management in France, notes in a statement. “Returns on the US equity market were high in 2013: the S&P 500 index is up 32%, one of the strongest annual gains in 17 years,” says David Daglio, manager of the BNY Mellon US Opportunities Fund.
