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Article: FUND FOCUS: The bear essentials.( Miton Optimal funds )(Company overview)

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November 9, 2006
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I have focused on one of the Miton Optimal funds - the strategic fund - already. It has had a hard time this year due to a big cash bias and its limited ability to buy into alternative asset classes.

Miton therefore proposes to launch the Arcturus fund, which will be a non-Ucits retail scheme taking advantage of the 2007 Coll directive. What this means is it can invest in equities, bonds, cash, gold, property, hedge funds and more, targeting investment instruments that the strategic fund cannot.

The highly experienced management team consists of Tom McGrath, Steve Brann and Scott Campbell. McGrath's investment career started with Invesco's ...

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