Alpha-Centric Investing: Not Just for Institutions Anymore
| Dec 16th, 2006 | Filed under: Retail Investing | By: Alpha Male |
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Event: Bringing Academic Insights to Wealth Management and Investment Management
Dates: March 13-14, 2007
Location: Geneva
Organized by: EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre
For those who don’t believe new asset management techniques such as ALM, portable alpha, and hedge funds have any role in private investors’ portfolios, check out this recently-announced event in Geneva next year. We agree that these investment concepts are usually greeted with glazed eyes and a sense of skepticism by most private investors. But mutual funds draw the same response 30 years ago. And today private investors buy and sell billions of dollars of mutual funds every day. We believe that every new institutional investing concept eventually makes its way to the private client market in some form.
Below are a few of the topics being covered at the event As you read this list, bear in mind that this is targeted at a private wealth management audience, not the usual institutional audience:
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[...] Consultant and journalist Pierre Saint-Laurent* covers EDHEC’s Asset Management Days in Geneva this week for All About Alpha. On Monday, he sat down with EDHEC’s Lionel Martellini to have a frank discussion about hedge fund replication in advance of Martellini’s much anticipated presentation on Tuesday. [...]
[...] Consultant and journalist Pierre Saint-Laurent* continues his coverage of EDHEC’s Asset Management Days in Geneva this week for All About Alpha. On Tuesday, he attended a much anticipated presentation on hedge fund replication featuring researchers Noël Amenc, Jean-Christophe Meyfredi, François-Serge Lhabitant and Walter Géhin. Other industry leaders** joined the EDHEC group on a subsequent panel discussion. Here again is Saint-Laurent’s dispatch from Geneva. [...]