AlphaSwiss Group to Harry Kat: Not So Fast…

Feb 7th, 2007 | Filed under: Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication

Special to AllAboutAlpha.com

By: Maurus Bossi, Chairman & CEO, AlphaSwiss Group

We have been reading your blog with interest and we think that we might also be able to add some thoughts on the discussion about alternative beta. We also think that our view is quite different from the hedge fund replication group and Harry Kat’s view on the subject.

AlphaSwiss has been running fund of hedge fund products for nearly two years on our more pragmatic and proprietary Alternative Beta® approach. We have tried to cut through the older marketing concepts of existing hedge fund providers that were mainly selling their products as pure alpha or absolute return products – not really accurate in our view.

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  1. All About Alpha » Blog Archives » Hedge fund replication is “imitation crab meat” according to major hedge fund company February 9th, 2007 9:26 pm :

    […] AlphaSwiss Group to Harry Kat: Not So Fast… […]

  2. All About Alpha » Blog Archives » Alternative Beta Conference Notebook February 13th, 2007 12:59 pm :

    […] Like Pawlowicz Maurus Bossi (see previous posting) has dedicated his life to uncovering new ways to invest. Bossi is CEO of AlphaSwiss, a Zurich-based firm specializing in non-traditional betas. He makes it quite clear that “alternative beta” refers to much more than just hedge fund replication. In fact, hedge fund replication is “just a special case” of alternative beta.  Many of his sources of alternative beta are derived from or delivered by long-only managers. Assembling these betas in a way that might replicate certain hedge fund strategies is just one way to use these betas. […]

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