Rothschild Larch Lane Management Company announces the launch of the Rothschild Larch Lane Alternatives Fund

NEW YORK, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rothschild Larch Lane Management Company announces the launch of a liquid, open end alternatives mutual fund which utilizes a risk balanced approach to portfolio construction.  Using a multi-manager structure, the Rothschild Larch Lane Alternatives Fund (Ticker: RLLIX, Institutional Shares and RLLBX, Investor Shares) offers diversification across a variety of asset classes, time frames, investment styles and strategies.  The Fund seeks to generate consistent returns relative to risk and maintain low correlation to equity and bond markets.

Rothschild and Larch Lane will share their decades of experience managing multi-manager alternatives portfolios through the joint venture management company.  Larch Lane is a pioneer in early stage hedge fund investing, hedge fund seeding, and is a well-known fund of hedge funds investor in the US.  Rothschild brings complementary global research of liquid hedge fund managers and distribution. 

Michael Tamasco, Co-Head of Rothschild Asset Management explained, "It was important to develop a portfolio that we believe can generate consistent returns in different market environments."  Mark Jurish, Larch Lane Founder and CEO stated, "We've spent a significant amount of time developing a liquid alternatives fund solution that we believe meets investor demand, including devoting substantial resources to portfolio and risk management."  Said Tamasco, "By creating and monitoring a 40 act regulatory budget at the overall fund level, we are best able to achieve the maximum benefit from each of our underlying Sub-Advisers."

The Fund's concentration of high quality Sub-Advisers are as follows:

Sub-Adviser	Investment Strategy
Ellington Management Group, L.L.C.	Relative Value (Statistical Arbitrage)
	Tactical Trading (Short-Term Futures)
Karya Capital Management	Global Macro (Discretionary)
Mizuho Alternative Investments, LLC	Global Macro (Systematic)
Winton Capital Management Limited	Equity Trading (Long Biased)