CheBanca!, a unit of Italy’s Mediobanca Group, has inked an agreement with RAM Active Investments, a European systematic asset manager, to provide systematic strategies on its open platform.
The agreement will enable CheBanca! to offer its clients access to 11 funds from RAM. The funds cover systematic equity long-only, liquid alternative strategies as well as discretional fixed-income.
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On the other hand, the partnership offers RAM access to Italian retail investors.
RAM CEO Thomas de Saint-Seine said: “Starting from today, the Italian market becomes even more important for our development plans.
“The assets’ growth that this will imply and the support of Mediobanca as a strategic partner will enable us to invest an even more consistent amount of resources in innovation and research, elements that are essential in order to be competitive in the systematic active management segment, especially in this context of growing importance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.”
The latest move comes shortly after Mediobanca’s acquisition of a 69% stake in RAM.
CheBanca! general director Alessandro D’Agata said: “Thanks to the collaboration with Mediobanca SGR, we work in a guided open architecture scheme, which enables us to build and manage efficient portfolios relative to different risk/reward profiles, inside of which RAM’s strategies could represent an interesting and distinctive element in order to pursue our clients’ investments goals.”
