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	<title>AllAboutAlpha: Hedge Fund Trends &#38; Alternative Investment Analysis &#187; Retail Investing</title>
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		<title>Alpha Hunters: Bringing Long-Short Equity to the Masses</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/02/alpha-hunters-bringing-long-short-equity-to-the-masses/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/02/alpha-hunters-bringing-long-short-equity-to-the-masses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rockledge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AAA sat down with Alex Gurvich and Jim Mitchell, both of The Rockledge Group, an investment advisory firm headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. We began by discussing the mid-January launch of a new product that gives the long-short equity strategy an ETF format, and ended up talking about a good deal else, such as the inherent superiority of ETFs over mutual funds, and Pimco's recent recognition of that fact. ]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha Hunter Bandon Capital: Alpha for the Small Investor</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/19/alpha-hunter-bandon-capital-alpha-for-the-small-investor/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/19/alpha-hunter-bandon-capital-alpha-for-the-small-investor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relative-performance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bandon Capital's managing directors believe it is possible to generate alpha from unique non-market sources, and that they do so through their forecasts of domestic and overseas sovereign interest rates. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What Was That You Said&#8230;? Retail?&#8217; Just Call it ‘Convergence’</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/04/what-was-that-you-said-retail-just-call-it-%e2%80%98convergence%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/04/what-was-that-you-said-retail-just-call-it-%e2%80%98convergence%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutual funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retailization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from SEI shows If an alternative strategy can be offered in a mutual fund structure it has a much broader market opportunity than if not. Hedge fund managers want the mutual fund market just as mutual fund managers want to use the broader hedge fund range of strategies.]]></description>
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		<title>What Los Angeles Traffic Can Teach Us About Investing in Real Estate Today</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/23/what-los-angeles-traffic-can-teach-us-about-investing-in-real-estate-today/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/23/what-los-angeles-traffic-can-teach-us-about-investing-in-real-estate-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbrzeski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[default]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rental properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residential real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk-adjusted returns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of real estate articles by new editorial board member Jan B. Brzeski, Principal at Arixa Capital Advisors, LLC, Los Angeles, CA.]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha Hunter Krishna Menani: The Opportunities and Risks in Bond Markets</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/08/11/alpha-hunter-krishna-menani-the-opportunities-and-risks-in-bond-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/08/11/alpha-hunter-krishna-menani-the-opportunities-and-risks-in-bond-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=22651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In any economic system, the fixed-income market plays an essential role as one of the principal ways of financing enterprise (be it corporate or sovereign).  Research shows that at the end of 2010, the global bond market had amounts outstanding of over US$95 trillion (to put that in context, the World Bank reported the total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody Back in the Water! Deep Diving the Family Office Investment Pool</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/28/everybody-back-in-the-water-deep-diving-the-family-office-investment-pool/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/28/everybody-back-in-the-water-deep-diving-the-family-office-investment-pool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=22451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest research, confidence in family office investing is back.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/28/everybody-back-in-the-water-deep-diving-the-family-office-investment-pool/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Alpha Hunter John Brynjolfsson: The Hidden Risks of Inflation</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/21/alpha-hunter-john-brynjolfsson-the-hidden-risks-of-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/21/alpha-hunter-john-brynjolfsson-the-hidden-risks-of-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor's Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=22341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a new series called "Alpha Hunters." The nimble qualities of alternative investments is part of what makes them essential to every investor's portfolio. They can move quickly to take advantage of market inefficiencies and go where other more traditional investment vehicles cannot. 

It is in the spirit of seeking the ever-moving alpha that we introduce this series, reaching out to experts in different strategies to see where they are finding alpha.

We hope you find this series illuminating and please feel free to send suggestions for Alpha Hunters you'd like to read about.

Kristin Fox
Managing Editor]]></description>
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		<title>What the wealthy want &#8212; and it&#8217;s not &#8220;synergy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/13/what-the-wealthy-want-and-its-not-synergy/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/07/13/what-the-wealthy-want-and-its-not-synergy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Management Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=22200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clients, according to a surprising new report, aren't too keen on alpha at the moment.]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternatives Expert Viewpoint on Alternative Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/06/29/an-alternatives-expert-viewpoint-on-alternative-alternatives/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/06/29/an-alternatives-expert-viewpoint-on-alternative-alternatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=22053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tongue- and portfolio-tied investors are looking for alternatives for their alternatives in order to achieve non-correlation.]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Alternative Products and Strategies 2011</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/05/18/retail-alternative-products-and-strategies-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/05/18/retail-alternative-products-and-strategies-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=21347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Cerulli 
Published: May 2011
Abstract: In its second iteration, this annual report focuses on ETFs and alternative products and strategies distributed through the retail third-party intermediary channel. The products analyzed in this report include: alternative (including commodities) mutual funds and ETFs, traditional ETFs, hedge funds, and structured products (including exchange-traded notes). This examination focuses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Pigs Do Fly!</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/05/17/yes-pigs-do-fly/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/05/17/yes-pigs-do-fly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=21260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, the prevailing thought was that pigs would fly before alternative investments became a mainstream staple for investment advisers. According to the latest research from Cerulli, it&#8217;s time for air traffic controllers to wake up because they&#8217;re going to have to integrate Dreamliner-sized porkers into flight patterns and guide them into safe landings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capture this: A simple, but useful tool for describing hedge fund returns</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/12/06/capture-this-a-simple-but-useful-tool-for-describing-hedge-fund-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/12/06/capture-this-a-simple-but-useful-tool-for-describing-hedge-fund-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=17331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hedge fund industry has an occasional obsession with exotic risk metrics (VaR, Conditional VaR, Omega Ratio, higher moments, etc.).  These make a lot of sense if you have a few Ph.D.&#8217;s on staff (read: you&#8217;re a large institutional investor).  But what if you need to explain the non-market-tracking nature of a hedge fund to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closet indexing continues to flourish in mutual fund land (and bring down average performance)</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/11/29/closet-indexing-continues-to-flourish-in-mutual-fund-land-and-bringing-down-average-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/11/29/closet-indexing-continues-to-flourish-in-mutual-fund-land-and-bringing-down-average-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=17534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mutual funds with a high "active share" are once again found to produce higher and more persistent returns - the two basic constituents of alpha.  So why is closet indexing as popular as ever?  And what does this portend for hedge funds?]]></description>
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		<title>SEC: When is a Family Office not a Family Office?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/10/24/sec-when-is-a-family-office-not-a-family-office/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/10/24/sec-when-is-a-family-office-not-a-family-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=16700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dodd-Frank Act requires hedge fund to register with the SEC.  But it also nearly also forced America's 4,000 family offices to do the same.  That got the SEC is wondering: What exactly is a family office anyway?  ]]></description>
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		<title>Homogenized hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/10/13/homogenized-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/10/13/homogenized-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=16422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite a lot of chatter and an assortment of industry surveys, some still say there hasn't yet been a "comprehensive overview of the differences and similarities of alternative UCITS funds and hedge funds" - until now...]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual fund study finds &#8220;first direct evidence of trade off between performance and marketing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/08/24/mutual-fund-study-finds-first-direct-evidence-of-trade-off-between-performance-and-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/08/24/mutual-fund-study-finds-first-direct-evidence-of-trade-off-between-performance-and-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Research]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=15292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mutual funds have learned that holding stock market "darlings" is bad for performance, but good for marketing.  Thankfully for hedge funds, less transparency may have allowed them to avoid this trap.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Despite performance concerns, UCITS-compliant hedge funds still have plenty of fans</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/08/18/despite-early-performance-concerns-ucits-compliant-hedge-funds-still-have-plenty-of-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/08/18/despite-early-performance-concerns-ucits-compliant-hedge-funds-still-have-plenty-of-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=15268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey finds that UCITS-compliant hedge funds are still drawing crowds - despite a few rough edges here and there.]]></description>
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		<title>Being short apparently has its benefits</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/05/10/study-finds-that-being-short-has-its-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/05/10/study-finds-that-being-short-has-its-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new research paper suggests mutual funds that adopt hedge fund-like strategies were aided by their short positions - especially during the financial crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators take note: New research finds mutual fund managers do better, not worse, when they also manage &#8220;side-by-side&#8221; hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/03/15/regulators-take-note-new-research-finds-mutual-fund-managers-do-better-not-worse-when-they-also-manage-side-by-side-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/03/15/regulators-take-note-new-research-finds-mutual-fund-managers-do-better-not-worse-when-they-also-manage-side-by-side-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=10589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Past research has shown that when mutual fund companies offer hedge funds, mutual fund performance suffers.  But a new study finds that when individual mutual fund managers also manage hedge funds, this actually helps the mutual fund performance.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Should Investors Invest in Hedge Fund-Like Mutual Funds? Evidence from the 2007 Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/03/01/should-investors-invest-in-hedge-fund-like-mutual-funds-evidence-from-the-2007-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/03/01/should-investors-invest-in-hedge-fund-like-mutual-funds-evidence-from-the-2007-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=13235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Jing-Zhi Huang, Penn State
Published: March, 2010
Abstract: Recently many mutual funds have created hedge fund-like products for marketing to retail investors. This study empirically examines the value added for investors during the 2007 financial crisis from hedge fund-like mutual funds, including 130/30, market neutral, and long/short equity funds. Based on the information ratio, market neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examining &#8220;Real Alpha&#8221; and &#8220;Exotic Beta&#8221; in mutual funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/01/examining-real-alpha-and-exotic-beta-in-mutual-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/01/examining-real-alpha-and-exotic-beta-in-mutual-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=9068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually the term "exotic beta" is associated with hedge funds.  Finally, it's being applied to the largest pool of active management - mutual funds. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>UCITS and NEWCITS and Hedge Funds, oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/19/ucits-and-newcits-and-hedge-funds-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/19/ucits-and-newcits-and-hedge-funds-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The expected EU Directive in addition to generally more heightened demand for regulatory compliant alternative investments has already set in motion a wave of so-called UCITS- and NEWCITS-based funds. The question is whether they can truly live up to expectations, particularly with higher costs and lower returns?]]></description>
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		<title>A January Tradition: Investors&#8217; love/hate relationship with hedge funds.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/04/a-january-tradition-investors-lovehate-relationship-with-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/04/a-january-tradition-investors-lovehate-relationship-with-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As investors reflect on last year, they are apparently of two minds regarding hedge funds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/04/a-january-tradition-investors-lovehate-relationship-with-hedge-funds/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>The grass is always greener&#8230; mutual fund managers&#8217; walk on the wild side not so wild after all.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/21/the-grass-is-always-greener-mutual-fund-managers-walk-on-the-wild-side-not-so-wild-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/21/the-grass-is-always-greener-mutual-fund-managers-walk-on-the-wild-side-not-so-wild-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The allure of making big money and being your own boss was plenty to lure many a mutual fund manager to the hedge fund world. The reality, according to a new study published last month, is that there was almost no way to obtain the same level of compensation or better. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/21/the-grass-is-always-greener-mutual-fund-managers-walk-on-the-wild-side-not-so-wild-after-all/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>UCITS FoHF Survey</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/01/ucits-fohf-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/01/ucits-fohf-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: KDK Asset Management 
Published: December 2009
Abstract: This paper summarizes the results of a survey conducted among 30 of the largest Fund of Hedge Fund managers. Among its conclusions, it shows that most of them intend to enter the UCITS space over the next year. Despite the fact that the survey participants generally expect UCITS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equity long/short mutual funds &#8220;could easily grow twenty-fold over the next five years:&#8221; Report</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/09/equity-longshort-mutual-funds-could-easily-grow-twenty-fold-over-the-next-five-years-report/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/09/equity-longshort-mutual-funds-could-easily-grow-twenty-fold-over-the-next-five-years-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=7409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are "hedged mutual funds" finally ready for prime time? ]]></description>
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		<title>Competition and Convergence, The Evolving Landscape for Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/01/competition-and-convergence-the-evolving-landscape-for-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/01/competition-and-convergence-the-evolving-landscape-for-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=7443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Pershing Prime Services (BNY Mellon) and Finadium
Published: November 2009
Summary: This report, commissioned by Pershing LLC and produced by Finadium LLC, examines the new and significant trend of traditional investment managers entering the equity long/short marketplace, their convergence with hedge funds and the implications for hedge funds, investment managers and their investors. The findings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report shows that some wounds recently suffered by wealth managers may have been self-inflicted</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/30/report-shows-that-some-wounds-recently-suffered-by-wealth-managers-may-have-been-self-inflicted/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/30/report-shows-that-some-wounds-recently-suffered-by-wealth-managers-may-have-been-self-inflicted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=5274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch show that wealth managers may have stopped listening to clients at exactly the wrong moment.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/30/report-shows-that-some-wounds-recently-suffered-by-wealth-managers-may-have-been-self-inflicted/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Research shows private bankers still favour hedge funds.  Managers not convinced though</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/29/research-shows-private-bankers-still-favour-hedge-funds-managers-not-convinced-though/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/29/research-shows-private-bankers-still-favour-hedge-funds-managers-not-convinced-though/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=5141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two different surveys paint a picture of concerned hedge fund managers - even though private bankers see continuing value in their craft.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A new era: redefining ways to deliver trusted advice</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/01/a-new-era-redefining-ways-to-deliver-trusted-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/01/a-new-era-redefining-ways-to-deliver-trusted-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=6009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Published: July 2009
Introduction: Since our 2007 Survey, the world of the wealth manager has become far more challenging. With asset values down, lower trading volumes and clients focused on lower margin products, revenue prospects are severely reduced. Clients are expecting more from their wealth manager, are asking difficult questions and looking for assurance. Client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Wealth Report 2009</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/06/01/world-wealth-report-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/06/01/world-wealth-report-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=6005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management
Published: June 2009
Introduction: Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management are pleased to present the 2009 World Wealth Report. Our annual report, now in its 13th year, was initiated as our two firms began collaborating to analyze the macroeconomic factors that drive wealth creation, and better understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds &amp; mutual funds: &#8220;resistance&#8221; and &#8220;turf wars&#8221; or just eloping in Vegas</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/26/hedge-funds-mutual-funds-resistance-and-turf-wars-or-just-eloping-in-vegas/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/26/hedge-funds-mutual-funds-resistance-and-turf-wars-or-just-eloping-in-vegas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Convergence can apparently be a very messy thing.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The new look for hedge funds this summer: mutual funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-new-look-for-hedge-funds-this-summer-mutual-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-new-look-for-hedge-funds-this-summer-mutual-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds are on an AUM diet these days.  But have investor redemptions been a result of the underlying investment strategies used by hedge funds or the result of the fund structures themselves?    ]]></description>
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		<title>Two studies find active management &#8220;put&#8221; was AWOL in 2008</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/04/22/two-studies-find-active-management-put-was-awol-in-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/04/22/two-studies-find-active-management-put-was-awol-in-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many say that the ability to dial back on beta is the hallmark of active management.  But some recent research finds that this flexibility hasn't paid off when needed most.]]></description>
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		<title>Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard, Year End 2008</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/04/20/standard-poors-indices-versus-active-funds-scorecard-year-end-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/04/20/standard-poors-indices-versus-active-funds-scorecard-year-end-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=6016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s
Published: April 20, 2009
Abstract: The Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard presents the performances of actively managed mutual funds as compared to benchmark indices. The report covers U.S. equity, international equity and fixed income categories.  The popularity of SPIVA stems from a few unique attributes: survivorship bias correction; apples-to-apples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in the Asset Management Industry</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/03/01/trends-in-the-asset-management-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/03/01/trends-in-the-asset-management-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icappelletti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=6012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Robert Huebscher
Published: March 2009
Abstract: Depressed asset values, volatility, and a flight to quality have forced every sector of the asset management industry to reexamine its business model.  Radical transformations are on the horizon.  To underscore the magnitude of the changes that will unfold, consider these remarks from Bob Rodriguez, CEO of First Pacific Advisors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Putnam funds separate alpha and beta (nearly)</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/06/new-putnam-funds-separate-alpha-and-beta-nearly/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/06/new-putnam-funds-separate-alpha-and-beta-nearly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too little, too late?  Putnam swims against the current with a new fund that contains a sort of "hidden hedge fund" inside it.]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds: Not such an odd couple &#8211; as long as conflicts of interest are managed</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/09/24/hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-not-such-an-odd-couple-as-long-as-conflicts-of-interest-are-managed/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/09/24/hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-not-such-an-odd-couple-as-long-as-conflicts-of-interest-are-managed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the world of hedge funds and traditional long-only funds hurtling into each other, we examine some of the conflicts of interest and performance implications of hedge funds and mutual funds co-habitating.]]></description>
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		<title>Are financial advisors serving your lunch to hedge funds?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/24/are-financial-advisors-serving-your-lunch-to-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/24/are-financial-advisors-serving-your-lunch-to-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An upcoming article in the Journal of Investing questions the value of non-fee-based financial advisors.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s behind the drop in mutual fund alpha?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/13/are-hedge-funds-to-blame-for-drop-in-mutual-fund-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/13/are-hedge-funds-to-blame-for-drop-in-mutual-fund-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like hedge funds, mutual funds are finding true alpha harder to come by.  But you might be surprised to learn who is to blame.]]></description>
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		<title>False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/05/13/false-discoveries-in-mutual-fund-performance-measuring-luck-in-estimated-alphas/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/05/13/false-discoveries-in-mutual-fund-performance-measuring-luck-in-estimated-alphas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Laurent Barras (Swiss Finance Institute), O. Scaillet (University of Geneva), Russ Wermers (University of Maryland)
Published: May 2008
Abstract: Prior approaches to identifying skilled funds in a population examine the performance of each fund in isolation, without regard to the role of luck in this multiple fund setting. Our paper develops a new, simple technique to properly account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds for Retail Investors? An Examination of Hedged Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/01/hedge-funds-for-retail-investors-an-examination-of-hedged-mutual-funds-2/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/01/hedge-funds-for-retail-investors-an-examination-of-hedged-mutual-funds-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University), Nicole M. Boyson (Northeastern University) &#38; Narayan Y. Naik (London Business School)
Published: June 2007
Abstract: Recently there has been a rapid growth in the assets managed by &#8220;hedged mutual funds&#8221; &#8211; mutual funds mimicking hedge funds strategies. In this paper, we examine the performance of these funds relative to hedge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UMAs: Base Camp for Wealth Managers to Scale Mt. Alpha</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/10/umas-base-camp-for-individual-investors-to-scale-mt-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/10/umas-base-camp-for-individual-investors-to-scale-mt-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;SMAs grow up and learn to play nicely in the advisory community&#8221;
By: Janet Aschkenasy, Wealth Manager Magazine
Published: January 1, 2007
While institutional investors have been busy debating the merits of bifurcating alpha and beta, the wealth management industry has inadvertently stumbled upon an enabling technology that may someday bring alpha-centric investing to the masses.  New information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side-By-Side Management of Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/22/side-by-side-management-of-hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-2/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/22/side-by-side-management-of-hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Tom Nohel (Loyola University of Chicago), Zhi Jay Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Lu Zheng (University of California)
Published: December 2006
Abstract: We examine situations where the same fund manager simultaneously manages mutual funds and hedge funds. We refer to this as side-by-side management. We document 112 such cases involving 189 hedge funds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side-By-Side Management of Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/22/side-by-side-management-of-hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-3/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/22/side-by-side-management-of-hedge-funds-and-mutual-funds-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Tom  Nohel
Published: December 22, 2006
Abstract: We examine situations where the same fund manager simultaneously manages mutual funds and hedge funds. We refer to this as side-by-side management. We document 112 such cases involving 189 hedge funds and 304 mutual funds. The 155 side-by-side managed mutual funds in our sample in existence in 2004 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Funds: Obsolete?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/20/mutual-funds-obsolete/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/20/mutual-funds-obsolete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Jonathan Chevreau, National Post (Canada)
Published: December 20, 2006
Jonathan Chevreau is a highly regarded and well-known business columnist in the Great White North.  In today&#8217;s National Post, he picks up on Chet Currier&#8217;s musings about the possible &#8220;End&#8221; of mutual funds.  Although Chevreau is a critic of Canada&#8217;s &#8220;world-beating&#8221; mutual fund fees, he still includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Bloomberg: Chet Currier is a very smart man.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Bloomberg&#8217;s Chet Currier for shining the spotlight on alpha-centric investing today (&#8220;Does Alpha-Beta Spell &#8220;The End&#8221; for Mutual Funds?&#8220;).  Reports Currier:
&#8220;The very model of a mutual fund is indeed outmoded, argues a large and growing group of financial researchers and professional money managers who are busy describing, building and proselytizing for a different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha-Centric Investing: Not Just for Institutions Anymore</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/16/alpha-centric-investing-not-just-for-institutions-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/16/alpha-centric-investing-not-just-for-institutions-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/09/alpha-centric-investing-not-just-for-institutions-anymore/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t believe new asset management techniques such as ALM, portable alpha, and hedge funds have any role in private investors&#8217; portfolios, check out this recently-announced event in Geneva next year.  We agree that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETFs and Hedge Funds: Separated at Birth</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/09/etfs-and-hedge-funds-separated-at-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/09/etfs-and-hedge-funds-separated-at-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When mutual funds can be cloned using a combination of ETFs and hedge funds, it&#8217;s no surprise that both sectors seem to be growing in tandem.  
            
Experts have been trying to reconcile these seemingly contradictory trends.  Are we giving up on active management or embracing it?  Do we want boutique alpha generators or do we want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Individual Investors’ Needs and the Investment Professional</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/30/individual-investors%e2%80%99-needs-and-the-investment-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/30/individual-investors%e2%80%99-needs-and-the-investment-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Arvid O.I. Hoffmann (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Published: October 2006
Excerpt: Investing in the stocks of specific companies can offer utilitarian benefits like low risk and high returns, but also expressive benefits. For example, investments can help investors to demonstrate their feelings of patriotism, social responsibility and fairness or convey a position of high status to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidelity Practically a &#8220;No Show&#8221; in ETF Arena</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/23/fidelity-practically-a-no-show-in-etf-arena/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/23/fidelity-practically-a-no-show-in-etf-arena/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: David Hoffman, Investment News
Published: October 23, 2006
Smaller events on the PGA and ATP Tours always have a problem attracting the big names.  Take, for example, the Canadian stop on the ATP Tour.  It seems that every year the top players fall victim to some freak injury right before the Rogers Cup.  Thankfully, they always recover by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETFs and SMAs: Side By Side</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/09/14/etfs-and-smas-side-by-side/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/09/14/etfs-and-smas-side-by-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Sydney Leblanc, Financial Advisor Magazine
Published: August 1, 2005
This article for advisors covers ETFs in general.  However, the author makes an interesting observation about the role of ETFs in an SMA for purposes of hedging market risk and essentially creating portable alpha.
&#8220;ETFs can also be used as hedging instruments. They can be optioned, margined and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETFs: An Advanced Alternative to Indexation</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/etfs-an-advanced-alternative-to-indexation/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/etfs-an-advanced-alternative-to-indexation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Yang Rong
Published: March 6, 2006
Yang Rong&#8217;s observations about ETFs support their use as an alpha-isolation tool by hedge fund managers.  Which begs the question, &#8220;why just hedge funds?&#8221;.
Excerpts: 
&#8220;ETFs are often used for shorting purposes due to their intra-day trading rules, which not only help hedge funds to remove regulatory issues, but also generate revenue from lending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in Exotic ETFs</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/trends-in-exotic-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/trends-in-exotic-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Yang Rong
Published: February 20, 2006
The explosion of the ETF industry now provides many more tools for alpha extraction and porting&#8230; 
Excerpts:
&#8220;Commodity ETFs: Commodities in general are typically a good hedge against inflation and stocks over a sustained period. The value of commodity ETFs is tied directly to the value of the commodity in question.
&#8220;Dividend ETFs: The intention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Funds: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/mutual-funds-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/28/mutual-funds-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Noel Amenc, Edhec Business School
Published: April 14, 2006
 
Professor Noel Amenc of the Edhec Business School in France argues for a new way of measuring mutual funds based on alpha/beta seperation (a topic regularly promoted on this website).
Excerpts:
&#8220;With the development of independent distribution and so-called &#8220;open&#8221; architecture, the marketing success of mutual funds no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Build Your Own Hedge Fund</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/14/how-to-build-your-own-hedge-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/14/how-to-build-your-own-hedge-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Lewis Braham, Business Week
Published: December 26, 2005
This ariticle in Business Week illustrates clearly how hedging techniques can and will be used by individual investors in their own portfolios and it builds on many of the ideas contained in a post on this blog called &#8220;Financial Genomics&#8221;. 
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&#8220;Using mutual funds, you can put together a hedge fund yourself at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Position-Level and Regression-Based Techniques for Isolating the &#8220;Embedded Hedge Fund&#8221; in an Active Mutual Fund</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/13/comparing-position-level-and-regression-based-techniques-for-isolating-the-embedded-hedge-fund-in-an-active-mutual-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/13/comparing-position-level-and-regression-based-techniques-for-isolating-the-embedded-hedge-fund-in-an-active-mutual-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Alpha Male 
Shorting out the equity market can isolate what I call the embedded hedge fund from within a long-only mutual fund.  As many, including William Sharpe, have argued, you don&#8217;t need to know the actual holdings in a mutual fund to determine the amount of beta within it.  One can simply regress returns against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disintermedation of the Mutual Fund Foretold by Nobel Winner</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/13/disintermeidation-of-the-mutual-fund-fortold-by-nobel-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/13/disintermeidation-of-the-mutual-fund-fortold-by-nobel-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Alpha Male 
In the 1930&#8217;s, a commerce student at the London School of Economics named Ronald Coase traveled throughout the United States conducting research for a research paper he called The Nature of Firm.  In 1991, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics for this and similar studies.  In his seminal paper, he tackled the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic Replication of a Mutual Fund Using &#8220;Off-the-Shelf&#8221; Alpha, Beta, and Leverage</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/06/synthetic-replication-of-a-mutual-fund-using-off-the-shelf-alpha-beta-and-leverage/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/06/synthetic-replication-of-a-mutual-fund-using-off-the-shelf-alpha-beta-and-leverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Alpha Male 
A friend recently asked me to analyze his firm&#8217;s equity mutual fund on the basis of it&#8217;s alpha component.  What proportion of the fund could be represented by an ETF, by cash (or borrowed cash), and by a market neutral overlay (a.k.a. &#8220;the embedded hedge fund&#8221;)?  If we assume a smal fee for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing Like the Pros: Combining Index Funds with Alternative Strategies</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/04/investing-like-the-pros-combining-index-funds-with-alternative-strategies/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/04/investing-like-the-pros-combining-index-funds-with-alternative-strategies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Jonathan Clements, Wall Street Journal
Published: February 8, 2006
Excerpt:
If you&#8217;re like many mutual-fund investors, you own a mix of actively managed stock funds that tap into a host of market sectors. And, of course, you hope to beat the market.
&#8220;Problem is, a lot of what you&#8217;re paying for isn&#8217;t stock-picking skill but basic market exposure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending an ETF Portfolio</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/04/defending-an-etf-portfolio/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/04/defending-an-etf-portfolio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Richard Kang, Meridian Global Investors
Published: January 2005

Excerpts:
The combination of the long position in the small cap fund and the short position in the Russell 2000 (assuming roughly equal dollar amounts) looks a lot like a market neutral long-short position, one subset of hedge funds. 
Only recently, with the explosion of index funds, ETFs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estimating the Dynamics of Mutual Fund Alphas and Betas</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2004/10/09/estimating-the-dynamics-of-mutual-fund-alphas-and-betas/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2004/10/09/estimating-the-dynamics-of-mutual-fund-alphas-and-betas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Matthew Spiegel, Yale; Harry Mamaysky, Yale; Hong Zhang, INSEAD
Published: October 2004
Abstract: Consider an economy in which the underlying security returns follow a linear factor model with constant coeffcients. While portfolios that invest in these securities willin general, have a linear factor structure, it will be one with time-varying coeffcients. However, under certain assumptions regarding the portfolio&#8217;s investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratizing The Hedge Fund: Considering the Advent of Retail Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2003/04/29/democratizing-the-hedge-fund-considering-the-advent-of-retail-hedge-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Donald E. Lacey, Jr. (Harvard Law School)
Published: April 2003
Abstract: Though periodically vilified in the popular press, hedge funds have become an important element of a diversified investment strategy thanks to their unique risk-return profile. In the United States, however, the potential benefits of this strategy class are limited by legislation that has dramatically circumscribed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Values and the Star Phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2003/02/14/family-values-and-the-star-phenomenon/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2003/02/14/family-values-and-the-star-phenomenon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Vikram K. Nanda (Arizona State University), Z. Jay Wang (N/A) and Lu Zheng (University of California) 
Published: February 2003
Abstract: We examine the extent to which a fund&#8217;s cash flows are affected by the stellar performance of other funds in its family &#8211; and consequences of such spillovers. We show that star performance results in [...]]]></description>
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