MCAM to market Fusion products

MCAM Group, a provider of outsourced business solutions for the alternative investment industry, has signed London-based Fusion Asset Management to manage all aspects of Fusion’s product sales, client relations, public relations and marketing operations.

Fusion is a specialist hedge fund manager founded in 2004 by Kirill Ilinski, formerly co-head of JP Morgan’s debt-equity relative value group in London. Fusion has since developed several absolute return products.

Under the agreement MCAM Group will help build Fusion’s brand and market the company’s investment products to investors internationally.

MCAM Group is Geneva-based and provides outsourced business development, operational consulting and targeted public relations for the alternative investment industry. The company was set-up in 2009 by Lars Bjoergerd, a former director of Cube Capital, the $1.2 billion alternative asset manager.

The Fusion Volatility Fund provides absolute return and long optionality. Over two years of trading the strategy had a 10%-15% return and 5%-7% volatility a year in non-leverage format.  The fund consists of diversified investment portfolio of long option positions across equities, foreign exchange, commodities and fixed income. The positions are dynamically hedged to cover time decay. No short option trades are allowed, ensuring the strategy maintains the desired downside protection.

The  Fusion LIBOR+Range uses a combination of proprietary interest rate optimisation techniques and volatility forecasting based on Fusion Volatility Strategy.