Now Asia becoming AllAboutAlpha
Oct 10th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Hundreds of asset managers and end investors met in Hong Kong last Friday to hear the alpha-centric views of derivatives experts and economists from Deutsche Bank along with the 1X0/X0 opines of your humble scribe. The event was the second in a two-show tour that started in Singapore on Wednesday.
Companies like Deutsche Bank (and AllAboutAlpha site partner Morgan Stanley) are the engineers who give life to the solutions advocated at AllAboutAlpha.com. So we were very interested to hear how the alpha-centric revolution was going to actually be implemented.
Charles-John Donley (C.J.), DB’s Managing Director of the Institutional Client Group within Global Equity Derivatives here in Asia and Colin Grassie, Deutsche Bank’s CEO of Asia (ex-Japan) hosted the events in Singapore and Hong Kong respectively. Asia is currently responsible for about 10% of AllAboutAlpha.com traffic (60% is US and 25% is from Europe). But if Donley and Grassie are even half-right about the burgeoning demand for more innovative portfolio construction in this market, we’ll have to translate AllAboutAlpha.com into Mandarin pretty soon.
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