February 7, 2007 (Geneva) - AllAboutAlpha.com contributor Mark Baumgartner of Morgan Stanley says that Portable Alpha is on the minds of attendees of this year’s Institutional Fund Management conference in Geneva today.  Baumgartner reports the results of an electronic poll of audience members conducted this morning during a session entitled “Predicting Where the Smart Money is Going: Tomorrow’s Successful Products and Investments”.

In response to the question: “Where will the smart money go in tomorrow’s products?”, the results were:

• Portable Alpha: 36%
• Infrastructure: 33%
• Real Estate: 20%
• Commodities: 11%

The audience was made up of institutional investors and practitioners from Europe and the US.