January 2012
- Zurich based 47 Degrees North Capital Management, a specialist alternative investments provider, is using AlternativeSoft for portfolio construction, optimization and portfolio monitoring. Used across the firm the software provides a solution to track portfolio attributions, generate portfolio optimisations and assists in the selection of hedge fund investments. The system enables 47 Degrees to consolidate and analyse a huge amount of disparate data in one place, with ease, supporting efficient investment decision-making Read more here

- We are looking to hire a Quantitative Sales person who will be based at our office in Canary Wharf, London. The new hire will sell our software to banks, pension funds and fund of hedge funds. The successful candidate will have an MSc in a Finance discipline and a knowledge of quantitative concepts such as Volatility, Correlation, Skewness, Normal Distributions, Regressions, Portfolio Optimization, Style Analysis and Hedge Funds. The role will involve selling our software to global asset managers. We offer quantitative and sales training, a competitive wage + commissions to the right candidate. Send your CV to jobs@alternativesoft.com.
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- AlternativeSoft is awarded the Silver Medal in the Technology Provider category of Hedge Funds Review's Service Provider Rankings for 2011. For the survey, the majority of responses came from single-manager hedge funds with the most common responders at senior management level such as chief operating officers, chief investment officers, chief financial officers and chief executives as well as portfolio managers. The rankings were based on responses from over over 1,000 hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and investors. Read more here.
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- The UCITs Alternative Indices (provided by Alix Capital) are now available to all clients in the AlternativeSoft Free Indices database.
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April 2011

- AlternativeSoft has appointed Akshay Lad as an Account Manager. Mr Lad will be based in London and will be responsible for our managing a subset of our clients.

- We continue to seek experienced sales candidates in London. If you too are looking to evolve your career, learn finance at a rapid level and seeking to work in a dynamic and young company, then please send your CV to jobs@alternativesoft.com.
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January 2011

AlternativeSoft launches its new software release with several new models such as (i) multi-factor stress testing, (ii) Portfolio Management with liquidity ladders, (iii) portfolio optimization with equal contribution to volatility, (iv) return attribution between assets/strategies/asset classes and (v) importing the Morningstar long only databases.  Want to know more? Contact us.
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October 2010
AlternativeSoft exhibits its large new software release at the Shorex Wealth Management conference, in Geneva, with 1'100 attendees, during two days.
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August 2010
- UCITS III hedge funds are available in in our software thanks to the cooperation with Eurekahedge and HFR databases.  Quicker and easier. Download these UCITS III hedge funds in 60 seconds, with one click, by using AlternativeSoft web server'. 

- Arden Asset Management, a USD9 billions USA fund of hedge funds, selected AlternativeSoft software'.

- A USD100 billions USA pension fund selected AlternativeSoft software'.
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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, a web link to all hedge funds databases, daily/weekly/monthly returns, tailor-made PDF reports, daily/weekly/monthly Portfolio Management and a special model for to select Long Only funds.  Do you want to know more?  Contact us.
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February 2010
- Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, in Geneva, selected AlternativeSoft software'.

- AlternativeSoft exhibited at the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days conference, in London, with 1'000 delegates'.
 
October 2011
AlternativeSoft's CEO & Founder Laurent Favre appears in issue 240 of HFMWeek, sharing his theory on a portfolio with an equal contribution of volatility. Read the paper here.
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Investing in South African Hedge Funds - Albourne Village
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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
- 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

Title
Risk Parity - Rewards, Risks and Research Opportunities
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Authors
Barry Schachter and S. Ramu Thiagarajan - Edhec Risk Institute
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Date
January 2011
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Subject 
The attractiveness of Risk Parity (RP) does not lie in the fact that it would have outperformed Mean Variance Optimization (MVO) during the crisis. Ex post, we could design any number of strategies that would have outperformed MVO during the crisis. The attractiveness of RP is not its simplicity. The 1/n strategy is far simpler to implement (and explain) and does not require a numerical search to find the portfolio weights. However, RP strongly appeals to our intuition that risk diversification is the central goal in portfolio decision making, and equalising estimated risk contributions is probably a good way to try to approach that goal. RP is also appealing in that the resulting portfolio does not depend on the thing we have the least confidence in being able to accurately estimate, namely expected returns.

Risk parity is available in AlternativeSoft software platform.