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Different Methods To Skin Multi-Alternative Investments

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Mark Melin
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The multi-alternative asset class has rapidly expanded over the past several years, one of the fastest growing subcategories under the liquid alternative umbrella. Each provider utilizes different methods to design and manage their underlying investments.

Multi-Alternative Management: “Most investors have too much equity market exposure in their portfolios”

Ronen Israel, head of the Global Alternative Premia group at AQR, manages all their strategies with in house talent, seeking to create a noncorrelated strategy sleeve in an equity portfolio. “Most investors have too much equity market exposure in their portfolios,” he said at the Morningstar conference in Chicago Thursday.

 

Economic crisis is the point at which investors realize just how highly correlated their portfolio is to the equity market despite being “diversified” in different...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.