About Us

Alternative Alpha Research blends expertise in fund management, asset allocation, risk management, investment analysis and operational analysis to provide a complete service to investors.

At Alternative Alpha Research we believe that access to genuine alpha still exists but, due to the sector’s growth and dilution of genuine skill, is harder to find. Experience has led us to conclude that alpha can be obtained in a number of ways:

· Identification of high alpha, low beta, return streams;
· Identification of high alpha, high beta return streams, with the addition of a portfolio overlay dampening the impact of market movements and isolating the alpha component;
· By the identification, and mitigation, of key risks, thereby reducing loss events;
· These key risks are both investment and operational in nature (over 50% of hedge funds that are unsuccessful fail due to operational inadequacies, thus this is one of Alternative Alpha Research’s key focuses);
· A robust institutional risk framework can provide a significant advantage and informational edge to investors.

The generation of successful and sustainable returns requires a dynamic and diligent approach to all of these areas. Issues stemming from the evaporation of liquidity have stressed many markets, assets and portfolios beyond levels previously envisaged, resulting in underlying risk profiles that differ greatly to those when an investment was originally made. Alternative Alpha Research provides a variety of services to assist investors.