http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/ Hedge funds, portable alpha, 130/30 and alpha-centric investing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:56:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2124 All About Alpha » Blog Archives » Columnist throws out alpha baby with beta bathwater Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:51:35 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/#comment-2124 [...] Bloomberg’s Chet Currier is generally in tune with alpha-centric investing. Â In a column last fall, he quite correctly observed: “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 way of doing things…The alpha-beta community already has been years in the growing. It will be years more before it penetrates, say, the 401(k) retirement-savings market where mutual funds reign now. But a real challenge has been laid down, and it isn’t going away.” [...] [...] Bloomberg’s Chet Currier is generally in tune with alpha-centric investing. Â In a column last fall, he quite correctly observed: “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 way of doing things…The alpha-beta community already has been years in the growing. It will be years more before it penetrates, say, the 401(k) retirement-savings market where mutual funds reign now. But a real challenge has been laid down, and it isn’t going away.” [...]

]]> http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/comment-page-1/#comment-326 All About Alpha » Blog Archives » UMAs: Base Camp for Wealth Managers to Scale Mt. Alpha Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:22:44 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/12/19/note-to-bloomberg-management-chet-currier-is-a-very-smart-man/#comment-326 [...] While Bloomberg’s Chet Currier may be right that it will be a number of years before alpha-centric investing truly catches on in the retail investment industry, we believe UMA’s represent a base camp from which alpha-centric investing can scale new heights. [...] [...] While Bloomberg’s Chet Currier may be right that it will be a number of years before alpha-centric investing truly catches on in the retail investment industry, we believe UMA’s represent a base camp from which alpha-centric investing can scale new heights. [...]

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