Aspect announces the launch of an offshore China vehicle

Aspect Capital launches offshore Aspect China Absolute Return Programme (“The Programme”)

London, May 2026 - Aspect Capital, the UK-based systematic investment manager established in 1997, has launched an offshore version of its Aspect China Absolute Return Programme, providing global investors with access to a strategy that has been successfully trading in China for several years. Until now, Aspect China Absolute Return was only available to onshore Chinese investors, through Aspect’s Shanghai office.

The Programme is designed to deliver stable, diversifying absolute returns, irrespective of market conditions, by systematically capturing opportunities across China’s highly liquid futures markets. It builds on Aspect’s nearly 30 years of experience developing systematic strategies, complemented by the firm’s 15 years’ experience in researching Chinese futures markets.

“China’s futures markets offer a breadth and diversity of opportunity that is very distinct from other markets,” said Anthony Todd, Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Capital. “We have been successfully trading this programme onshore for several years, through a range of market regimes. Launching this offshore strategy enables a wider investor base to access the strong diversification properties of these highly liquid markets.”

The Programme employs a multi-model, multi-asset approach, combining directional and relative strategies across more than 60 highly liquid futures contracts spanning financials and commodities such as egg, polished rice, bitumen, polyethylene and glass.

The launch of the offshore Aspect China Absolute Return Programme reinforces Aspect’s commitment to providing global investors with access to diversifying sources of return and to leveraging its long-standing expertise in Chinese markets.

Domiciled in the Cayman Islands, the Programme will be independently administered by Citco Fund Administration (Cayman Islands) Limited. It offers weekly liquidity and targets an annualised volatility of 15%, aiming to exploit the distinct attributes of Chinese futures markets to provide investors with a highly diversifying, uncorrelated yet liquid investment strategy.

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