By: Noël Amenc, Philippe Malaise and Lionel Martellini, EDHEC
Published: 2005

Excerpt: 

“In this paper, “From Delivering to the Packaging of Alpha. Illustration from Active Bond Portfolio Management: Using Fixed-Income Derivatives to Design Hedge Fund Type Offerings that Better Fit Investors’ Needs”, the authors emphasize the need for the hedge fund industry to adopt a consumer (investor)-driven approach, as opposed to the current producer (manager) perspective, and call for the emergence of new types of offering with characteristics better suited to the needs of institutional investors. Using active bond portfolio management as an example, they present evidence that derivatives can be used by managers not only for generating and delivering abnormal performance, but also for packaging such performance in a form that is consistent with the modern core-satellite approach to institutional portfolio management, for which they explore both a standard static version and also a dynamic extension allowing for dissymmetric control of active management risk.”

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