7 Questions for Adam Patti, CEO of IndexIQ
| Feb 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication, Today's Post | By: Guest |
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By: Andrew Saunders, Member of the Editorial Board of AllAboutAlpha.com, & Director, EFX Prime Services
In January the Wall Street Journal reported that ETF assets had crested $1 trillion. No longer is it simply another way to capture S&P 500 beta. It seems that every day there is an innovative new investment idea that is packaged in an ETF form. Joining us this month to discuss how ETFs play a role in an alternative investment portfolio is Adam Patti, CEO and Founder of IndexIQ . A lifelong entrepreneur, Adam has founded and run a number of companies in a number of business areas including marketing, technology and supply chain management. He was an early pioneer in ETFs, having led an indexing/ETF initiative involving two products while at Fortune Magazine, including the Fortune 500, the first fundamentally derived Broad-based index. His new venture brings ETFs to the alternative realm via a distinct replication methodology seeking to offer exposure to the return profiles of a number of hedge fund indices. Is this the wave of the future? Adam is here to shed light on this growing segment of ETFs. More…
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do they short s&p 500 put to replicate merger arb?