Exclusive results from our second annual 130/30 poll: Despite recent distractions, underlying interest remains
Nov 18th, 2008 | Filed under: 130/30, Today's PostThank you to those who participated in this year’s AllAboutAlpha/Terrapinn 130/30 poll. Despite being distracted by market events of the past month, response rates were largely the same as last year across most categories and geographies. We just finished re-counting the “pregnant” and “hanging” chads last week and can now provide you with the results.
Before we dive into the highlights below, the usual caveats should be issued. Like last year’s survey, the respondents to this year’s edition are 100% self-selected. As a result, they may likely be biased toward 130/30 investing already. On the other hand, this was also the case last year. So comparisons between the two polls may still be somewhat instructive.
Demographics
To fully understand the results, it’s helpful to quickly tell you about the broad demographics of the 100+ respondents. Asset managers comprised a larger proportion of this year’s respondents due to a drop in the number of end investors filling out the survey.
This drop could be a result of the recent market calamities (filling out online surveys may not be at the top of most investors’ priority lists right now), or it could mean that investors are just not into 130/30. However, analysis of the (smaller) sample of investors suggests that interest remains significant.
Response was also higher from North America and Europe than it was last year. This may have simply been a result of the particularly mailing list used to alert people about the survey.
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