Mackenzie Investments Announces Partnership with Waystone to Expand European Presence with Launch of Mackenzie UCITS Fund
Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”), in partnership with Waystone, a leading provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, today announced that the Mackenzie Quantitative Emerging Markets Large Cap Strategy will now be available to investors in select European markets, as well as the United Kingdom, through the launch of an Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regulated fund structure in Luxembourg.
The Mackenzie Quantitative Emerging Markets Large Cap UCITS (“the UCITS”) provides institutional and professional investors with exposure to large- and mid-cap stocks across 24 emerging market countries and a select number of frontier countries. The UCITS leverages the longest managed strategy from the Mackenzie Global Quantitative Equity team (the “GQE Team”). Investors can benefit from the GQE Team’s holistic quantitative investment approach, which combines advanced data science with human insight in seeking to generate alpha while carefully managing risk.
“We’re pleased to now offer qualified investors and institutions access to the strategies and performance from the Mackenzie GQE team,” said Simon Bedard, Head of EMEA Institutional, Mackenzie Investments. “This is another example of our ongoing commitment to increasing our presence in Europe and the UK, allowing us to reach more investors in global markets.”
To meet the growing demand and interest in quantitative investing in Europe, Mackenzie partnered with Waystone, a leading global provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to bring its Mackenzie Quantitative Emerging Markets Large Cap Strategy to the European market through Waystone’s UCITS platform in Luxembourg.
Denis Harty, Country Head – Continental Europe at Waystone, commented, “We are delighted to partner with Mackenzie Investments as they bring their quantitative expertise to the European market utilising Waystone’s UCITS hosting infrastructure. This launch underscores the strength of our partnership and reflects the growing demand from institutional asset managers for efficient access to global investors through well governed UCITS structures.”
The UCITS is now available to investors in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and will also be made available to Channel Islands investors.
About Mackenzie Investments
Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”) is a Canadian investment management firm with approximately $246 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026. Mackenzie seeks to create a more invested world by delivering strong investment performance and offering innovative portfolio solutions and related services to more than one million retail and institutional clients through multiple distribution channels. Founded in 1967, it is a global asset manager with offices across Canada as well as in Beijing, Boston, Dublin, Hong Kong and London. Mackenzie is a member of IGM Financial Inc. (TSX: IGM), part of the Power Corporation group of companies and one of Canada’s leading diversified wealth and asset management organizations with approximately $314 billion in total assets under management and advisement as of March 31, 2026. For more information, visit mackenzieinvestments.com
About Waystone
Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.
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