Gottex Absolute Return (Ucits) Fund: Gottex Fund Management

Tenth European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards 2011

The Gottex Absolute Return fund is actively managed and moderately diversified with 20 to 25 Ucits-compliant managers. The aim is to maximise returns by dynamically allocating the portfolio and investing in strategies that have a low sensitivity to major equity and bond indexes. The two portfolio managers, chief investment officer Chris Hawkins and managing director Ted Wong, seek to identify managers that can deliver that little bit extra in a Ucits product.

The portfolio is between one-quarter