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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

June 2010 Raiffeisen Bank, in Austria, selected AlternativeSoft software.
May 2010 Russell Investments, in London, selected AlternativeSoft software.
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.
February 2010 Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, in Geneva, selected AlternativeSoft software.
February 2010 AlternativeSoft exhibited at the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days conference, in London, with 1'000 delegates.
December 2009 USS, in London, selected AlternativeSoft software.
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.
August 2009 Two divisions of the FirstRand Group, RMB Asset Management in London and FRAIM in South Africa, selected AlternativeSoft for their quantitative processes.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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.
 AlternativeSoft's Publications
November 2009 "Galleon" insider trading returns analysis - HedgeWeek
January 2009 Returns Comparison Between Small and Large Hedge Funds - AIQ Quarterly
August 2007 Alpha And Alternative Betas In Event Driven Hedge Funds - Eurekahedge
July 2006 Tactical Asset Allocation For Hedge Fund Indices At One- To Six-Months Horizons, Chapter 12 - Elsevier Finance
July 2006 Quantitative Hedge Fund Selection For Fund Of Funds, Chapter 27 - Elsevier Finance
September 2005 Does Extreme Risks Affect Fund of Hedge Funds Composition?, Chapter 22  - Wiley Finance
 
 The July 2010 Paper
Title An Empirical Analysis of Alternative Portfolio Selection Criteria
Author M. Gilli, E. Schumann
Date March 2009
Subject   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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