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| June 2010 |
We hire a Sales person in London. The person
will sell our software to banks, pension funds and FoHF. Required: MSc in quantitative
subjects or minimum 3 years experience in sales in Pertrac,
Bloomberg or another finance software,
knowledge of finance and statistics, desire to be on the
phone 6 hours per day. Competitive wage with commissions,
steep learning curve. Send your CV to jobs@alternativesoft.com
We hire a Quantitative IT person in London.
The person will install the software to clients, answer
their quantitative or IT questions by phone and emails,
create some financial models in Excel VBA. Required:
MSc in quantitative subjects, deep knowledge of finance and
statistics, interest in SQL database and IT in general. Competitive wage, steep learning
curve. Send your CV to jobs@alternativesoft.com
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| June 2010 |
Raiffeisen Bank, in
Austria, selected AlternativeSoft
software. |
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| May 2010 |
Russell
Investments, in London, selected AlternativeSoft
software. |
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| March 2010 |
AlternativeSoft launches its new software release which
includes a link to Bloomberg and to all hedge funds databases,
daily/weekly/monthly
returns, tailor-made PDF reports, daily/weekly/monthly Portfolio
Management and a special model for Long Only fund investors.
Do you want to know more? Contact us. |
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| February 2010 |
Lombard Odier
Darier Hentsch, in Geneva, selected AlternativeSoft
software. |
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| February 2010 |
AlternativeSoft exhibited at the EDHEC Alternative
Investment Days conference, in London, with 1'000 delegates. |
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| December 2009 |
USS, in
London, selected AlternativeSoft software. |
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| December 2009 |
The largest Swiss bank and the largest US bank selected AlternativeSoft software
platform to build portfolios of mutual funds, ETF and hedge
funds. |
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| August 2009 |
Two divisions of the FirstRand Group, RMB
Asset Management in London and
FRAIM in South Africa, selected AlternativeSoft for
their quantitative processes. |
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| May 2009 |
AlternativeSoft entered in a partnership with Eurekahdege.
During the 15 days free AlternativeSoft software trial, the Eurekahedge databases (around
10'000 hedge
funds) will be free to use. For qualified companies
only. Try the
software. |
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| May 2009 |
Despite the 2009 financial crisis, AlternativeSoft invested and increased its programming team by 50% in May
2009. In addition, AlternativeSoft transforms its
software to a new technology. This transformation will
take 18 months and will benefit our clients in 2011. |
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| December 2008 |
AlternativeSoft exhibited at the EDHEC Alternative
Investments Days conference in London. Participants
investing in alternative investments were able to discover
how our software is able to rapidly built portfolios with low
downside risks. |
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| September 2008 |
AlternativeSoft presented present its new replication software, at the 'Hedge Fund Replication And
Alternative Beta' Terrapinn's conference, New York. This new
model allows investing in alternative investments with daily
liquidity and full transparency. |
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| June 2008 |
AlternativeSoft presented, at the EDHEC conference, in
Paris, with 1'400 delegates, its new model dedicated to
institutional investors and asset managers . This new
model allows investing in alternative investments with daily
liquidity and full transparency. |
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| AlternativeSoft's Publications |
| November 2009 |
"Galleon" insider trading returns
analysis - HedgeWeek |
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| January 2009 |
Returns Comparison Between Small and
Large Hedge Funds - AIQ
Quarterly |
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| August 2007 |
Alpha And Alternative Betas In Event Driven Hedge Funds - Eurekahedge |
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| July 2006 |
Tactical Asset Allocation For Hedge Fund Indices At One- To Six-Months Horizons, Chapter 12 - Elsevier Finance |
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| July 2006 |
Quantitative Hedge Fund Selection For Fund Of Funds, Chapter 27 -
Elsevier Finance |
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| September 2005 |
Does Extreme Risks Affect Fund of Hedge Funds Composition?, Chapter 22 -
Wiley Finance |
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July 2010 Paper |
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An
Empirical Analysis of Alternative Portfolio Selection
Criteria |
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M. Gilli, E. Schumann |
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March 2009 |
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An excellent academic paper which demonstrates that a
portfolio optimization using i) the ratio Historical
portfolio return/CVaR (80%) or ii) a maximization of the
Omega, delivers good out-of-sample portfolios returns.
All optimal portfolios are build on a rolling basis and with
thousands of simulations. Optimization techniques i)
and ii) are available in the AlternativeSoft software
platform. |
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