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Our clients are now able to manage a hedge funds and private equity funds’ portfolio using contributions and distributions.
Find out why some of the world’s largest pension funds, fund of funds, family offices, private banks, endowments, foundations, wealth managers and advisers trust AlternativeSoft to identify and analyse multi-asset class portfolios of hedge funds, mutual funds, ETFs and private market funds.
Recently, a critical vulnerability in source code Log4j has impacted some companies worldwide. We want to ensure all our clients that our products and solutions do not use Java or Log4j library. All client data remains safe and secure.
This new feature helps our clients easily explore the User Manual, access the Video training guides as well as look through the FAQs. In addition, it also allows our clients to book 1 on 1 meetings though the Webinar Training.
This features allows you to create batch reports, in Powerpoint format, using the Active worksheet as a template. As a result clients can now export their custom reports to Powerpoint quickly and easily.
Due diligence can be exceptionally time-consuming, when you have to deal with the collection of returns, estimates, weights, documents and questionnaires.
Using the new feature, clients can select up to 10 funds and control which specific funds improve performance in terms of portfolio statistics such as return, volatility, drawdown, maximum monthly loss or VaR.
We are proud announce that it now supports NilssonHedge Fund data as a free data set for our clients on our desktop and cloud based solution.
We are proud to introduce our new cloud based application AlternativeSoft Due Diligence Exchange.
AlternativeSoft are proud to announce our latest new features for our Private Equity module.
Type a Fund Name among our aggregated database of over 150,000 funds and visualize that funds extreme risks and see which other funds have consistently better returns within the same strategy.
AlternativeSoft has implemented the Yale model in the Private Equity Module of AlternativeSoft. This allows Private Equity investors to easily define the return they expect from their investment in a Private Equity fund.
Investment management solutions have changed the way investment managers manage their portfolios, but software tools like these aren’t always straightforward to implement and start using. This is where the value-add of post-sales support becomes crucial to successful solution adoption.
In fund Investing, the volume of data you need to access, manage and analyse can become overwhelming. And as your client base grows, managing portfolios becomes increasingly complex and prone to error. Discover how AlternativeSoft's scalable portfolio analytics solutions can help you to manage your data and processes at pace, efficiently and confidently.
Post the 2008 financial crisis, regulatory requirements regarding operational efficiency have become more stringent, resulting in an increased focus from firms on their operational due diligence. Operational due diligence is the process by which investors evaluate how an investment firm is managed, and whether the firm’s personnel can be trusted to manage the firm for the benefit of its investors, not just its managers.
The challenges associated with effective manager allocation can be complex enough to allocators without onerous due diligence obligations. And with the ever-changing industry and regulatory ecosystem, conducting due diligence confidently is becoming increasingly difficult. This is where effective digital due diligence solutions can help.
This article explores the challenges associated with managing risk and how fund investors and firms can benefit from comprehensive risk management solutions to effectively manage current and future risk, ensuring processes are as future-proofed as possible.
The adoption and use of cloud computing has become more and more prevalent in recent years, and providers of financial-technology solutions are increasingly offering cloud-hosted versions of their software to customers.
Fund managers and allocators have become increasingly aware of operational risk and the need to transform their operational due diligence process to account for changing compliance expectations.
AlternativeSoft, a global provider of asset selection, operational due diligence, and portfolio construction solutions, has announced that Witherspoon, an asset manager who specializes in liquid alternative investments, has integrated AlternativeSoft’s Portfolio Construction module into its asset management platform, creating a powerful decision-making platform for alternatives
A good investment is one thing, but combining ideas and strategies for maximum return means constructing optimal portfolios. Portfolio construction can help you extract the maximum potential out of your investments, but if your portfolio construction process isn’t complemented with a flexible digital solution, you’ll end up spending more time, money and effort in the long run.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek European Awards for the forth time, marking our 9th award in 10 years, winning the award in back to back concessions!
Product selection, asset allocation, data leveraging and effective portfolio building are all constructive approaches to ensuring success against market volatility and evolving regulatory requirements. But risk, and effectively managing risk, has become of paramount importance in optimal fund management, with firms and fund managers honing in on the best practices and approaches to secure portfolios against the impacts of risk.
AlternativeSoft are excited to announce the appointment of Ayman Abouhend as Company Officer for Mergers and Growth, Christopher Demetropoulos, who joins in an advisory role as a board member and Steve Gollins as Head of Sales in North America.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, we have decided to implement a work from home policy which has been robustly tested over the last few weeks.
We are excited to announce that our team has moved to a new location in Farringdon. 81 Farringdon Street, London, EC4A 4BL
Over the summer AlternativeSoft have been busy onboarded several large financial institutions.
AlternativeSoft users will gain free access to over 100 free global equity indices thanks to Morningstar’s Open Indexes Project.
Join AlternativeSoft in the first of our series of webinars on the best-performing hedge funds and mutual funds and tips for selecting funds that perform across all market conditions.
YTD year on year sales increase of 30% and expansion of our Sales, Support and Quantitative Teams which now takes our total head count to 35 as well as a new office.
AlternativeSoft hired and continues the expansion of its London office by boosting our existing Client Services team with 3 new faces!
Check out our latest analysis on the Hedge Funds Heatmap using AlternativeSoft's analytical platform and With Intelligence's hedge funds data. Our data-driven approach investigates whether the sector has grown or contracted in light of economic and geopolitical factors. Explore the complete heatmap and gain valuable insights for informed investment decisions in the hedge fund space.
We'll take you through the key factors to consider when making your investment decisions, and provide valuable insights into the performance and risk profiles of top hedge funds. Don't miss out on this essential guide to optimizing your portfolio for success. Watch the video now and take the first step towards building a winning investment strategy.
Our latest video is now live and ready to help you diversify your pension fund portfolio like a pro. Learn how to seamlessly integrate hedge funds for a stronger, more balanced portfolio. From risk management to due diligence, we cover everything you need to know to get started. Watch now and take your investments to the next level!
Attention all investors! Are you looking to maximize your funds' investments? Here are 10 proven strategies to help you reach your financial goals. Remember, the key to maximizing your funds' investments is to have a well-thought-out strategy, stay disciplined, and avoid making impulsive decisions.
Although the federal reserve has not yet announced a recession, the U.S. economy has slowed significantly in terms of the rate of real GDP growth compared to the previous year. Lower disposable income and higher interest rates are respectively reflected in lower spending and weakening housing sector activity.
2022 has been an extraordinary year thus far for financial assets. With a new recession in the very near future, investors are questioning whether hedge fund managers have enough experience to weather the storm. Is it the case that those funds whose managers have experienced previous crisis periods will perform better throughout the new crisis period?
Disruptive events such as wars generally alter the risk and return characteristics of asset classes. These events also change asset class correlations and the way asset managers set their asset allocation strategies. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has significantly affected the world’s financial markets. Subsequentially, one would expect hedge fund returns to be impacted.
Crypto assets have been amongst the fastest-growing asset classes in recent years. This new asset class has attracted a diverse set of investors, ranging from traditional institutional investors to more nascent investors keen to play a role in the innovation and transformation that blockchain technology promises.
We wanted to know whether investors are using hedge funds as a way to consolidate their portfolios in response to the equity, bond and crypto downturns throughout 2022. In our latest article, we analysed the inflows and outflows of the global hedge fund market, and found that investors are not moving to hedge funds in the way many might have expected.
US inflation has reached +8.3% and the S&P500 and crypto markets are down -20% and -40% for 2022, respectively. The question many institutional investors are asking is where and how to allocate funds to achieve positive returns in the next five to ten years, given the growing long-term inflationary challenges?
In light of signs of equity market instability, investors are increasingly exploring Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) funds for alternative returns. We explore the portfolio impacts of CTA allocations in our latest applied research.
How can an investor use state-of-the-art analytical tools to protect themselves, and profit, against rate hikes? In this article we use AlternativeSoft to analyse the impact of the Bank Of England rate increase on a typical European allocator portfolio and evaluate different strategies to hedge the portfolio against potential future rate hikes.
AlternativeSoft has added a hedge fund allocation to a traditional portfolio to see if extreme risk can be hedged during a crisis period. The current war in Ukraine has impacted global commodity prices and we theorize that CTA / Managed Futures may improve extreme risk management in portfolios.
With inflation and interest rates rising and equity markets showing signs of instability, investors are increasingly looking at Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) funds as an alternative source of return. CTAs aim to achieve their investment objectives through the trading of futures. Therefore this begs the question; when is the right time to enter? Check out a comparison of momentum and contrarian strategies here:
How can fund investors use intelligent solutions to simplify the allocation decision-making process? In our latest article, AlternativeSoft explores how our bespoke portfolio construction solutions empower simplify allocation decisions with award-winning analytics.
In this article we will evaluate the usefulness of the Ulcer Index and Serenity Ratio when selecting funds. We will first explain the two metrics and how are they related and then evaluate to what extent Serenity Ratio can outshine the Sharpe Ratio when selecting best performers.
Market-neutral funds are actively managed to be independent from both upward and downward market movemements. Usually, this is achieved through the use of paired long and short positions. These funds can potentially serve to mitigate market risk as they seek to generate positive returns in all market environments.
As investors watch the Asian markets, we take a closer look at Chinese real estate. AlternativeSoft allows investors to ascertain fund exposure levels and decompose portfolio risk and return to help mitigate the impact of such events on institutional portfolios.
Style analysis is widely used in the Alternatives Industry to estimate the exposure of less transparent funds. To explain fund return streams, there is a commonly used regression technique called Ordinary Least Square (OLS). In this article, learn about the issue of Heteroskedasticity, how to account for it in OLS analysis and modeling.
Can investors maintain a well diversified portfolio, even during crisis periods? In this article, AlternativeSoft measures the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the correlation of hedge fund index returns. Which strategies maintained the lowest correlation to other indices throughout the crisis?
Mean return and variance measures are fundamental to analysing hedge funds. But in which scenarios is it more prudent to introduce higher-moment models such as co-skewness and co-kurtosis to inform your investment decisions?
In this article, we analyse if skewness can be a useful indicator of future performance for North American mutual funds.
We categorise the skewness of returns of 1,200 Equity based Mutual Funds into 6 portfolios, based on their performance between 2000 and 2010.
In this article we look at equity returns and the returns of top performing US equity Mutual Fund to show that increasing yields has a tangible effect on equity and mutual fund performance. We also show that by holding the top 10 invested stocks for this fund you can out-perform the entire portfolio.
We find that Edale Europe Absolute Fund has been the best performing European Hedge Fund after the COVID-19 Financial shock that took place in March 2020. In this article we rank European Hedge Funds by their cumulative returns between April 2020 and March 2021.
The Rachev ratio provides an alternative measure for an investment's risk-return performance by dividing the average of right tail returns by the average of left tail returns at given percentiles equidistant from the mean. In this article AlternativeSoft evaluates whether the Rachev Ratio can be used to avoid significant drawdowns.
We selected Hedge Funds with AUM greater than $10 Million, with an investment geography focus in China and United States.
59 funds from China and 210 funds from the United States got selected for the analysis on which a weighted index was created based on the hedge funds’ AUM.
We find that Hedge funds investing in Crypto have had the highest Annual Sharpe Ratio between 1st of March 2020 and 31st of March 2021. AlternativeSoft analysed and compared 1563 Hedge Funds of the NilssonHedge database between the time period 1st March 2020 to 31st March 2021.
In this article we look at equity returns and the returns of top performing US equity Mutual Fund to show that increasing yields has a tangible effect on equity and mutual fund performance. We also show that by holding the top 10 invested stocks for this fund you can out-perform the entire portfolio.
This brief article examines the five best performing Hedge Funds and the five best performing Mutual Funds from April 2020 to December 2020. The sole focus was placed on hedge funds and mutual funds that have AUM > USD100m.
Bridgewater Associates is the world’s biggest hedge fund. Founded in 1975 by Ray Dalio , it grew exponentially throughout the decades, and it now serves individuals, institutions, trusts, private funds, charitable organizations, and investment companies offering portfolio management...
We selected 32 hedge funds with an Annual Sharpe Ratio greater than 4 during the period Jan2010-Feb2020and with at least $10M of assets under management.
This analysis uses 836 CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) Hedge Funds and compares their returns in March 2020 and for the year 2019. Data for these funds are provided by NilssonHedge, EurekaHedge and HFR.
As the industry witnesses fading differentiations between long-only, private equity and hedge funds, investors are starting to purchase software and databases.
Does investment in an active manager provide better drawdown protection than investment in the market?
Was 2018 really as bad a year for Hedge Funds as most market commentators have suggested and, if so, which strategies would have been best insulated from the turbulence?
Can we find outperformance using an algorithmic asset selection approach which focuses on lesser used risk and return statistics?
We interviewed Don Steinbrugge from Agecroft Partners and asked him some questions regarding the economy, coronavirus and conferences.
After a difficult few months due to the pandemic, Year-to-date, only 4 hedge fund sectors were in the black for April, including....
S&P 500 index rose far above benchmark gauges in Asia.
As the Covid-19 pandemic shows the earliest signs of drawing to a close, there are split opinions among hedge funds regarding what the next move should be.
PE firms sitting on $1.5tn to be used for “market dislocation”
Millions sent home as 3 hedge funds still manage to outperform market sell-off
Many believe Platt is the highest earning person in finance
A Danish hedge fund by the name of Asgard Credit is shorting Tesla bonds
Is machine learning beginning to take centre stage?
Greg Jensen Co-CIO believes these 3 reasons will cause gold to rise
Conrad and Shilling’s top ten mutual funds list (With associated five-year returns)
Less than 9,000 hedge funds now exist globally
Singapore is home to two of the top ten HF in 2019
Airbus, Moody’s, Charter Communications and more have been warned by TCI
Fears grow as assets held by private equity firms grows 83% in past decade
Founder and Billionaire Ray Dalio takes to social media to contest WSJ
Top 10 most loved stocks from 833 top hedge funds
Money being left on the table for player likeness, use of names and more
Switching from a partnership to a corporation has served many private equity firms very well.
For most firms’ women hold just 1 or 2 of the top positions on the buyout investment teams
Secondary deals have already broken 42bn for the first semester of 2019
The European Central Bank has lowered its deposit rate by 10 basis points as Draghi looks to step down next month
Sorrell to take up a senior role at rival asset management firm
$400m for majority stake in one of India’s largest education service providers EuroKids
Two private equity companies are looking to co-own the makers of Norton Anti-Virus software
180% stake increase makes gold hedge funds biggest held position
Soaring temperatures leads to 60% increase in carbon-emissions credits
Some firms have raised billions to take general partner stakes in other private equity players.
Berlin based ratings company “Scope” found that Multi-asset funds that invest directly in securities outperformed fund-of-funds over a 10-year period.
Franklin Templeton and Hasenstab dividing global opinion with latest bet
Some firms have raised billions to take general partner stakes in other private equity players.
Top 5 buys and sells from the world’s biggest hedge funds
Traders have dumped riskier assets such as stocks and crude oil moving towards “safe havens assets” including bonds.
Reports of hedge funds pushing for brexit have been rubbished by multiple sources.
GPIF want to make the market more sustainable not beat it.
Gold has risen 18% this year making it a refuge for hedge funds.
ABG is critical first deal for BlackRock as they continue to fundraise with target of $12b for LTPC fund.
After the antics of Abraaj Group investors have been reluctant to seek other opportunities in this region of the world.
Funds which rely more on insider money outperform funds that use asset gathering.
Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN for the same price as Netflix suggests direct attack.
Only one new hedge fund has managed to reach $2b this year, $6b shy of last year’s highest total.
Investors are gambling on further falls in share price.
Carlyle look to improve share price with inclusion in index tracker funds.
Sterling falls to 2 and half year low as no-deal Brexit becomes real possibility.
Society is on the precipice of major shifts in wealth, energy sources and morality, could ESG investing turn the heads of hedge fund managers?
85% loss of partners money after energy stocks have a tough year. Energy fund Equinox Energy has announced its plans to close their fund after 4 and a half years of torment losing 85% of their partners money.
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To learn more about how AlternativeSoft's award-winning solutions are helping some of the world's largest investors make smarter investment decisions, stop by and meet Alex and Scott.
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AlternativeSoft is proud to be sponsoring the Best Singapore-Based Hedge Fund Award at the Eurekahedge Asian Hedge Fund Awards 2019 later this week.
Good luck to all of the nominees!
To learn more about how AlternativeSoft's award-winning solutions are helping some of the world's largest investors make smarter investment decisions, stop by booth 31 and meet Dominique, Alex and James.
To find out how AlternativeSoft's industry leading solutions are helping some of the world's largest Hedge Fund Allocators make better informed investment decisions stop by our booth and meet our team. For more information please contact us.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek Global Awards.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek Global Awards.
AlternativeSoft won the award for ‘Best Risk Management Software’ in the Hedgeweek USA Awards.
First place in the ‘Technology Provider for Risk Management’ category of Hedge Funds Review Service Provider Rankings.
First place in the ‘Technology Provider for Risk Management’ category of Hedge Funds Review Service Provider Rankings.
First place in the ‘Technology Provider for Risk Management’ category of Hedge Funds Review Service Provider Rankings.
Second place in the ‘Technology Provider for Risk Management’ category of Hedge Funds Review Service Provider Rankings.
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