Artemis Atlas Fund
This is a marketing communication. Before making any final investment decisions, and to understand the investment risks involved, refer to the fund prospectus and KIID/KID, available in English and in your local language (depending on local country registration), from the relevant fund page or literature section on www.artemisfunds.com. The documents can also be found on www.fundinfo.com. For further information on investment terms used on this page, please refer to the glossary. CAPITAL AT RISK. All financial investments involve taking risk and the value of your investment may go down as well as up. This means your investment is not guaranteed and you may not get back as much as you put in. Any income from the investment is also likely to vary and cannot be guaranteed.
Actively managed for opportunity
Designed to harness the extensive insights and analysis our investment team generates, including negative views which go largely untapped in our other funds.
Designed to perform across all market conditions
Seeks to generate attractive investment performance in all market conditions with the aim of giving investors a more stable return over time.
Combines a top down and bottom up approach
Combines the manager’s bottom-up assessment of company attributes with his top-down view on the overall economy.
About the Artemis Atlas Fund
The Artemis Atlas Fund is designed to help grow investors' money over the long term – whether markets are rising or falling.
Unlike many traditional funds that rely on rising markets to make returns, Atlas takes a market neutral approach. This means it aims to deliver positive returns regardless of whether markets go up or down.
The fund invests in a combination of ‘long’ and ‘short’ positions. Long positions are in companies the manager believes have strong characteristics and good prospects, where he expects the share prices to rise. Short positions are taken in companies the manager believes are likely to fall in value, because of weaker financial attributes or business outlooks. Derivatives, financial instruments used by the fund, allow it to profit from the fall in a company’s share price. Of course, if a ‘shorted’ share price goes up instead of down, it will cause the value of the fund to decrease.
The fund’s approach helps it make the most of both positive and negative insights from our research – including views that are not used in our more traditional ‘long-only’ funds.
Investment decisions in the fund are shaped by in-depth research into individual companies and a wider view of what is happening in the global economy – such as changes in interest rates. This dual focus helps us to manage risks and find opportunities in different market conditions.
CAPITAL AT RISK. All financial investments involve taking risk and the value of your investment may go down as well as up. This means your investment is not guaranteed and you may not get back as much as you put in. Any income from the investment is also likely to vary and cannot be guaranteed.
Artemis does not provide investment advice on the advantages or suitability of its products and no information provided should be viewed in this way. Artemis only provides information about its own products and services and does not advise investors. Should you be unsure about the suitability of an investment, you should consult a suitably qualified professional adviser.
Key facts
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| Class | I accumulation shares, GBP |
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| ISIN | GB00BTQKSG82 |
| Launch date | 9 July 2025 |
| Fund type | OEIC |
| Focus | Capital Growth |
| Benchmark | Bank of England (BoE) base rate |
| Regional focus | United Kingdom |
| Currency | GBP |
| Year end | 28 February |
| Accumulation/ distribution pay date | 30 April |
| Valuation point | 12:00 |
For information on the fund charges, which include a performance fee, please refer to our Q&A document.
For more information on the fund, its structure and the cost of investing, please refer to our Q&A document.
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About the fund manager
Ambrose Faulks
Ambrose runs Artemis' Atlas strategy and works with Ed Legget managing Artemis’ ‘UK Select’ strategy. He graduated from Oxford in 2005 with a Master's in chemistry and joined the research department at a UK hedge fund. As an equity analyst, he focused on financial services and asset-intensive businesses. Ambrose moved to Artemis in 2013 and became a partner in 2025. He is a CFA charterholder.
Investment risks
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Currency risk: The fund’s assets may be priced in currencies other than the fund base currency. Changes in currency exchange rates can therefore affect the fund's value. Derivatives risk: The fund may invest extensively in derivatives with the aim of profiting from falling (‘shorting’) as well as rising prices. Should the asset’s value vary in an unexpected way, the fund value will reduce. Refer to the investment policy in the fund's prospectus for further details on how derivatives may be used. Leverage risk: The fund may operate with a significant amount of leverage. Leverage occurs when the economic exposure created by the use of derivatives is greater than the amount invested. A leveraged portfolio may result in large fluctuations in its value and therefore entails a high degree of risk including the risk that losses may be substantial. Government and public securities risk: The fund may invest more than 35% of its value in transferable securities and money market instruments issued or guaranteed by the United Kingdom. Refer to the investment policy in the fund's prospectus for further details on how large exposures to government and public securities may be held. Counterparty risk: Investments such as derivatives are made using financial contracts with third parties. Those third parties may fail to meet their obligations to the fund due to events beyond the fund's control. The fund's value could fall because of loss of monies owed by the counterparty and/or the cost of replacement financial contracts. |
Investment objective
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To achieve positive returns over three years, under all market conditions, by taking long and short positions in companies in the UK and other developed markets. The Sub-Fund aims to outperform the Bank of England (“BoE”) base rate (net of fees) measured on an annualised basis over rolling three-year periods. There is no guarantee the Sub-Fund will achieve a positive return over a three-year period or any other time period and your capital is at risk. |
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What the Sub-Fund invests in The Sub-Fund will gain exposure to shares in companies via extensive use of derivatives such as contracts for differences, futures, forwards, swaps and options (complex financial instruments) to take both ‘long’ and ‘short’ positions in companies the Manager believes will either rise in value (long positions) or fall in value (short positions) meaning the Sub-Fund may benefit from either scenario. The Sub-Fund will make extensive use of derivatives to achieve exposure to underlying securities. As a result, the Sub-Fund may hold up to 100% of its assets in cash and money market instruments. The Sub-Fund may also invest in other asset classes and other funds (directly or indirectly). These assets include, but are not limited to, foreign currency, bonds, cash, near cash, other transferable securities, money market instruments and other funds (up to 10%) managed by Artemis and third-party funds. |
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Use of derivatives The Sub-Fund may use derivatives:
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Where the Sub-Fund invests The majority (at least 51%) of the exposure to the long and short positions (in aggregate) will be to companies that are listed, incorporated, headquartered, or have a significant part of their activities in the United Kingdom. The Sub-Fund may also invest up to 49% in companies listed, incorporated, or headquartered in other developed markets. |
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Industries the Sub-Fund invests in Any |
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Other limitations specific to this Sub-Fund The total derivatives (longs plus shorts) will typically lie in a range of +100% to +300% of net asset value. Net exposure (longs minus shorts) to companies will typically lie in the range of +20% to -20%. |
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| Investment strategy |
The Sub-Fund is actively managed.
The Sub-Fund applies a long/short investment strategy taking ‘long’ and ‘short’ positions in companies the Manager believes will rise in value (long positions) or fall in value (short positions). The Sub-Fund aims to employ a market neutral investment strategy. We define market neutral as having between -20% and +20% net exposure to equities. The Sub-Fund may also employ ‘leverage’ whereby the absolute sum of its long and short positions could be greater than the Sub-Fund’s net asset value. The Manager derives ideas from a variety of information sources and multiple perspectives, prioritising non-consensus insights through both bottom-up and top-down approaches. The Manager’s extensive experience, gained through numerous company meetings and visits, plays a crucial role in validating these ideas. Additionally, the Manager's view on overarching themes that shape the global economy and their perspective on the UK market are significant components of the stock selection process. The Manager applies in-depth, bottom-up analysis to examine and develop the investment case. Close attention is paid to cashflows: how much is generated, how it is used and what the returns are when it is re-invested. For long positions, the Manager prefers companies which have demonstrated a long-term, sustainable and growing competitive advantage and a strong history of sustainable growth, capital allocation and cash generation. Critically, the Manager seeks to identify stocks with valuations which are, in the Manager’s opinion, overly conservative in relation to their peers, with the potential to provide attractive opportunities for a future re-rating. For short positions, the Manager typically prefers companies which have high operational and/or financial leverage and are facing structural issues and negative earnings trends. The Manager focuses on stocks where it believes that these challenges are not reflected in the valuation. |
| Sub-Fund benchmark |
Bank of England (BoE) base rate BoE base rate is a measure of the interest rate at which the BoE, UK’s central bank, lends money to other banks. It is used as a way of estimating the amount of interest which could be earned by cash. It acts as a ‘target benchmark’ that the Sub-Fund aims to outperform, on an annualised basis over rolling three-year periods. The Manager believes that this is an appropriate objective for the Sub-Fund given the investment policy of the Sub-Fund and the approach taken by the Manager when investing the Sub-Fund’s portfolio. There is no guarantee that this objective will be achieved over any time period and actual investment returns may differ from this objective, particularly over shorter time periods. |
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This is a marketing communication. Before making any final investment decisions, and to understand the investment risks involved, refer to the fund prospectus and KIID/KID, available in English and in your local language (depending on local country registration), from the relevant fund page or literature section on www.artemisfunds.com. The documents can also be found on www.fundinfo.com.
CAPITAL AT RISK. All financial investments involve taking risk and the value of your investment may go down as well as up. This means your investment is not guaranteed and you may not get back as much as you put in. Any income from the investment is also likely to vary and cannot be guaranteed.
Investment in a fund concerns the acquisition of units/shares in the fund and not in the underlying assets of the fund.
The fund is a sub-fund of Artemis Investment Funds ICVC. For further information, visit www.artemisfunds.com/oeic.
Any research and analysis in this communication has been obtained by Artemis for its own use. Although this communication is based on sources of information that Artemis believes to be reliable, no guarantee is given as to its accuracy or completeness.
Any forward-looking statements are based on Artemis’ current expectations and projections and are subject to change without notice.
The ongoing charge covers the annual operating expenses of running the fund and is shown as at the date in the Key Investor Information Document, where further information about the fund's charges can be found. Additional costs may be incurred, such as portfolio transaction costs and transfer taxes, which may reduce performance. For further information, visit www.artemisfunds.com/charges
Issued by Artemis Fund Managers Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.