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		<title>A Year of Downs and Ups: Our top 10 posts from 2009</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/29/a-year-of-downs-and-ups-our-top-10-posts-from-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/29/a-year-of-downs-and-ups-our-top-10-posts-from-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can a whole year be summed up in 10 posts?  You decide.]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Alpha</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/26/illegal-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/11/26/illegal-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=7848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, alpha exists and can be obtained. The question, though, in the age of frauds, blowups and misnomers, is: can it be attained legally?]]></description>
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		<title>Jaeger predicts year of alternative beta, the death of &#8220;black boxes.&#8221;  Advocates &#8220;scenario based&#8221; portfolio construction.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/01/19/jaeger-predicts-year-of-alternative-beta-the-death-of-black-boxes-advocates-scenario-based-portfolio-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/01/19/jaeger-predicts-year-of-alternative-beta-the-death-of-black-boxes-advocates-scenario-based-portfolio-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge fund industry watcher and alternative beta advocate Lars Jaeger of Partners Group provides us with his hedge fund predictions in this AllAboutAlpha.com exclusive.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Most Popular AllAboutAlpha.com Posts of 2008</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/12/29/most-popular-allaboutalphacom-posts-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/12/29/most-popular-allaboutalphacom-posts-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The envelope please...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>On the road to alpha, it&#8217;s okay to ask for directions</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/11/05/on-the-road-to-alpha-its-okay-to-ask-for-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/11/05/on-the-road-to-alpha-its-okay-to-ask-for-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With acrimony over hedge funds reaching a feverish pitch, AIMA has just released a major report that tries to take a step back from the brink to revisit the very rationale for alternative investments.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/25/alternative-beta-strategies-and-hedge-fund-replication/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/10/25/alternative-beta-strategies-and-hedge-fund-replication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Title: Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication
Author: Lars Jaeger
Published: October 2008
From Publisher: Serving as a handbook for replicating the returns of hedge funds at considerably lower cost, Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication provides a unique focus on replication, explaining along the way the return sources of hedge funds, and their systematic risks, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lars Jaeger</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/15/lars-jaeger/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/15/lars-jaeger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hall of Fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practitioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who's Who]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=2318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lars Jaeger
Partner and Head of the alternative beta strategies, Partners Group, Switzerland.  Author of several leading hedge funds publications.
Bio (Partners Group)
Research (SSRN)
Relevant Postings (AllAboutAlpha.com) 
    
        
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Note on Hedge Fund Fees: the Best is Yet to Come</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/09/a-note-on-hedge-fund-fees-the-best-is-yet-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/09/a-note-on-hedge-fund-fees-the-best-is-yet-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Management Fees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/09/a-note-on-hedge-fund-fees-the-best-is-yet-to-come/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a guest posting today, veteran portable alpha advocate Angelo Calvello says hedge fund fees may look high - but they sure beat indexing.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/09/a-note-on-hedge-fund-fees-the-best-is-yet-to-come/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alpha-centric Newsreel</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/14/alpha-centric-newsreel/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/14/alpha-centric-newsreel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[130/30]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AAA Newsreels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/14/alpha-centric-newsreel/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a sample of the news stories we didn&#8217;t get a chance to explore in detail this week.  As usual, all of them can be found on the Alpha-ticker above or in the news items section of AllAboutAlpha.com (free registration may be required for a few of these).
Morgan Stanley says Alpha/Beta Separation &#8220;the way [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oh, to be a fly-on-the-wall at the recent HF replication conference.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our intrepid "fly on the wall" buzzed into London for a major conference on hedge fund replication.  He reports from his fly-sized Blackberry.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shadwick to Quants: &#8220;Financial models should come with health warnings!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/09/shadwick-to-quants-financial-models-should-come-with-health-warnings/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/09/shadwick-to-quants-financial-models-should-come-with-health-warnings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/09/shadwick-to-quants-financial-models-should-come-with-health-warnings/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. William Shadwick, developer of the Omega Function used in risk management, warns that "over-modeling" has "negative consequences"]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/09/shadwick-to-quants-financial-models-should-come-with-health-warnings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kat to Jaeger: &#8220;Let&#8217;s skip the nitpicking&#8230;how useful is modern finance theory, really?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/05/kat-to-jaeger-let%e2%80%99s-skip-the-nitpickinghow-useful-is-modern-finance-theory-really/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/05/kat-to-jaeger-let%e2%80%99s-skip-the-nitpickinghow-useful-is-modern-finance-theory-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/05/kat-to-jaeger-let%e2%80%99s-skip-the-nitpickinghow-useful-is-modern-finance-theory-really/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest in their ongoing debate, Harry Kat questions Lars Jaeger's reliance on modern finance - a field he calls "utterly disappointing". ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/05/kat-to-jaeger-let%e2%80%99s-skip-the-nitpickinghow-useful-is-modern-finance-theory-really/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jaeger Replies to Kat&#8217;s Scepticism on Alternative Beta</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/26/jaeger-replies-to-kats-scepticism-on-alternative-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/26/jaeger-replies-to-kats-scepticism-on-alternative-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/26/jaeger-replies-to-kats-scepticism-on-alternative-beta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lars Jaeger says that Harry Kat's scepticism of alternative beta is based on a number of "inconsistencies" and mathematical short-cuts.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kat: HF replication using alternative betas very useful but sounds better on paper than in practice</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/20/kat-hf-replication-using-alternative-betas-very-useful-but-sounds-better-on-paper-than-in-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/20/kat-hf-replication-using-alternative-betas-very-useful-but-sounds-better-on-paper-than-in-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/20/kat-hf-replication-using-alternative-betas-%e2%80%9cvery-useful%e2%80%9d-but-%e2%80%9csounds-better-on-paper-than-in-practice%e2%80%9d/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest contributor Professor Harry Kat examines the creation of alternative beta using mechanical trading rules.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Replicating Hedge Funds: Traditional beta or alternative beta?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/14/replicating-hedge-funds-traditional-beta-or-alternative-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/14/replicating-hedge-funds-traditional-beta-or-alternative-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/14/replicating-hedge-funds-traditional-beta-or-alternative-beta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Partners Group's Lars Jaeger says that although you could have replicated hedge funds using equity beta over the past 4 years, "alternative beta" is still where it's at.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/02/14/replicating-hedge-funds-traditional-beta-or-alternative-beta/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The expanding (alpha) universe</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-big-is-the-alpha-universe-now/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-big-is-the-alpha-universe-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-big-is-the-alpha-universe-now/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the constant flow of hedge fund industry size estimates, it's easy to wonder if the hedge fund industry is going to hit a ceiling at some point.  We consulted one of the experts to find out.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do individual hedge funds really contain so much beta?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/11/22/do-individual-hedge-funds-really-contain-so-much-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/11/22/do-individual-hedge-funds-really-contain-so-much-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/11/22/do-individual-hedge-funds-really-contain-so-much-beta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our favorite institutional asset managers makes familiar argument this week about the high correlation between run of the mill betas and hedge fund indices.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/11/22/do-individual-hedge-funds-really-contain-so-much-beta/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alpha, once beatified, now &#8220;beta-fied&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/29/alpha-once-beatified-now-beta-fied/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/29/alpha-once-beatified-now-beta-fied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/29/alpha-once-beatified-now-beta-fied/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds have traditionally eked out a living by exploiting market inefficiencies to deliver alpha.  But it seems that hedge funds have now also become an important source of "alternative beta".  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Final dispatch from un-named hedge fund gathering in Boston</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/21/final-dispatch-from-un-named-hedge-fund-gathering-in-boston/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/21/final-dispatch-from-un-named-hedge-fund-gathering-in-boston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EVENT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/21/final-dispatch-from-un-named-hedge-fund-gathering-in-boston/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We conclude our coverage of this "no media" hedge fund conference in Boston with: post-Beijing distress, the "Flying Dutchman" and one half of the "Gilbert and Sullivan" of hedge fund research.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gone Fishing</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/07/04/gone-fishing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/07/04/gone-fishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/07/03/gone-fishing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AllAboutAlpha.com turns one today.  What a perfect time to reflect back on the past year by reading all 130,000 alpha-centric words on our blogolicious website.  (Like watching an entire season of "24" on DVD.)  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Edhec HF Replication Research in Limited Release Today</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/27/new-edhec-hf-replication-research-in-limited-release-today/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/27/new-edhec-hf-replication-research-in-limited-release-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre released its latest research into hedge fund replication techniques today at a seminar in London.  Its verdict: "attractive" but "unsatisfying".      ]]></description>
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		<title>New Deutsche Bank hedge fund replication offering gets both laurels and darts</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/05/28/new-deutsche-bank-hedge-fund-replication-offering-gets-both-laurels-and-darts/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/05/28/new-deutsche-bank-hedge-fund-replication-offering-gets-both-laurels-and-darts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 23:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank's new Absolute Return Beta Index is apparently trying to take a different tack than its competition.  Unfortunately, however, it may face the same headwinds.]]></description>
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		<title>Kat Launches New Broadside on Hedge Fund Replicators</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/30/kat-launches-new-broadside-on-hedge-fund-replicators/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/30/kat-launches-new-broadside-on-hedge-fund-replicators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Harry Kat of the Cass Business School at City University, London, has been a thorn in the side of the hedge fund industry for several years now.  And today (April 30), he released his latest attack on the sector, reserving his sharpest barbs for the hedge fund replicators themselves.  In fact, he concludes his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EVENT: Alternative Beta &amp; Hedge Fund Replication USA</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/23/event-alternative-beta-hedge-fund-replication-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/23/event-alternative-beta-hedge-fund-replication-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Location: New York
Dates: October 29-31, 2007
Organized by: Terrapinn
Hedge funds aren&#8217;t the only thing replicating these days. February&#8217;s wildly successful &#8220;Alternative Beta &#038; Hedge Fund Replication&#8221; conference in London has replicated itself &#8211; spawning two additional events within the course of a year. Both carry the same title and bring this hot topic to the shores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citigroup: Hedge funds a better structure for alpha generation than long-only funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/18/citigroup-hedge-funds-a-better-structure-for-alpha-generation-than-long-only-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/18/citigroup-hedge-funds-a-better-structure-for-alpha-generation-than-long-only-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge Funds and The Active Management Industry
By: Neil Brown and Rui de Figueiredo, Citigroup Alternative Investments
Published: Winter 2007, Citigroup Alternative Investments Journal
Citigroup&#8217;s Neil Brown and Rui de Figueiredo see hedge funds not as a distinct asset class, but as a distinct governance structure  &#8211; one that is ideally designed to generate alpha.  As a result, they view the competition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Stars, Super Models, and Alternative Beta</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/movie-stars-super-models-and-alternative-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/movie-stars-super-models-and-alternative-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The worlds of filmmaking, fashion and finance converge on London this week. Dame Helen Mirren was crowned queen of the world at last night&#8217;s BAFTA awards (Britain&#8217;s Oscars), London Fashion Week has flooded this city with (highly controversial) size-zero models, and Professor Bill Fung presides over IRC&#8217;s Hedge Fund Replication and Alternative Beta conference today. Only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaeger: Hedge Funds Usher in &#8220;Atomic&#8221; Age of Investing</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/jaeger-hedge-funds-usher-in-atomic-age-of-investing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/jaeger-hedge-funds-usher-in-atomic-age-of-investing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need a Ph.D. in physics to understand hedge fund replication. But Lars Jaeger has one just in case. And he used it masterfully today to draw an analogy between the model of the atom in the 19th century (a random mass of various particles) and the common paradigm understood today including a nucleus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Beta Conference Notebook</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/alternative-beta-conference-notebook/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/12/alternative-beta-conference-notebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ART, meet ABI&#8230;
Picking up on Goldman Sach&#8217;s Absolute Return Tracker and Merrill Lynch&#8217;s Equity Volatility Arbitrage Index, JPMorgan is now in the hedge fund replication game.
Their new Alternative Beta Index now adds ABI to ART and &#8220;EVAI&#8221; in the hedge fund replication lexicon. The product was developed with the help of Duke&#8217;s David Hsieh and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Beta: Old Wine in New Bottles</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/04/alternative-beta-old-wine-in-new-bottles/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/02/04/alternative-beta-old-wine-in-new-bottles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Guest Contributor to AllAboutAlpha, Professor Harry Kat, Cass Business School, City University (London)
February 4, 2007 &#8211; Currently, there is a lot of talk among investment practitioners about &#8220;Alternative Beta&#8221;, with the latter roughly defined as the return derived from exposure to &#8220;alternative&#8221; risk sources. The way in which Alternative Beta is being presented in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge replication strategies set for 2007 breakthrough year, says Partners Group</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/16/hedge-replication-strategies-set-for-2007-breakthrough-year-says-partners-group/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/16/hedge-replication-strategies-set-for-2007-breakthrough-year-says-partners-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: HedgeWeek
Published: January 12, 2007
Hedge fund uber-guru Lars Jaeger seems to be at odds with the industry he helped create.  He tells HedgeWeek.com that hedge fund replication strategies are a close-enough approximation of hedge funds &#8211; and much cheaper.  Says HedgeWeek:
&#8220;According to Dr Lars Jaeger, who is responsible for the development of the programme, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Financial &#8220;Period of Enlightenment&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-financial-period-of-enlightenment/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-financial-period-of-enlightenment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of three postings we plan on Alexander Ineichen&#8217;s new book Asymmetric Returns.  In it, Ineichen argues that alpha is the result, not of security-selection per se, but of downside risk mitigation.  Ineichen argues that we are experiencing a &#8220;paradigm shift&#8221; or &#8220;period of enlightenment&#8221; in asset management.  So if you like this blog, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EVENT: Alternative Beta</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/26/event-alternative-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/26/event-alternative-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Organized By: IRC
Dates: February 12-14, 2007
Location: London
The dynamic duo of William Fung and David Hsieh have been referred to as the &#8220;Gilbert &#038; Sullivan&#8221; of the hedge fund world &#8211; co-authors of seminal works whose broad themes are regularly borrowed by subsequent playwrights.  Well, there&#8217;s good news for fans: the pair will be appearing together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merrill Lynch: &#8220;New Alternatives in Alternative Investing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/21/merrill-lynch-new-alternatives-in-alternative-investing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/21/merrill-lynch-new-alternatives-in-alternative-investing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Benjamin Bowler, Heiko Ebens, John Davi &#038; Giovanni Amanti, Merrill Lynch
Published: October 18, 2006
The end is nigh!  The end is nigh!  A new report from Merrill Lynch suggests the hedge fund industry faces the dreaded &#8220;Y2011 Problem&#8221;.   
They point out that the growth trajectory for the number of US mutual funds in the 1980&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s is a dead ringer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Factor Modeling and Benchmarking of Hedge Funds: Can Passive Investment in Hedge Fund Strategies Deliver?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/19/factor-modeling-and-benchmarking-of-hedge-funds-can-passive-investment-in-hedge-fund-strategies-deliver/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/19/factor-modeling-and-benchmarking-of-hedge-funds-can-passive-investment-in-hedge-fund-strategies-deliver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Lars Jaeger &#038; Christian Wagner, Partners Group
Published: November 7, 2005 

This article aims to give reference to this academic effort and provide a coherent discussion on the current status of â€˜beta versus alpha&#8217; controversy in the hedge fund industry. 
- Jaeger &#038; Wagner 

We admit that we&#8217;ve been a little obsessed about the definition of alpha recently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Factor Modelling and Benchmarking of Hedge Funds: Can passive investments in hedge fund strategies deliver?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2005/11/15/factor-modelling-and-benchmarking-of-hedge-funds-can-passive-investments-in-hedge-fund-strategies-deliver/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2005/11/15/factor-modelling-and-benchmarking-of-hedge-funds-can-passive-investments-in-hedge-fund-strategies-deliver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Lars Jaeger, Christian Wagner
Published: November 2005
Abstract: The hedge fund industry is starting to recognize that a main part of its returns corresponds to risk premia rather than market inefficiencies, i.e. from “beta” instead of “alpha”. This has some implication for the industry and investors, among which is the endeavor to construct investable benchmarks for [...]]]></description>
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