Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: TowerGroup
Published: November 2005
Product Code: R301-834Description This TowerGroup Research Note examines some of the most popular alternative portfolio strategies in use today by institutional investors. It also discusses the cutting-edge investment products that are employed in these portfolios and the implications of these strategies for the technology employed by investment managers.Table of Contents - TowerGroup Take-Aways
- Report Coverage
- Vision
- What's Driving the Adoption of Alternative Portfolio Strategies?
- Where's the Alpha?
- Exhibit 1: Average US Pension Fund Asset Allocation as of December 31, 2004
- Diversifying Risk
- Hedging Liabilities and Inflation
- The Growth in Alternative Investments
- Do Alternative Investments Really Work?
- Exhibit 2: The Impact of Adding Alternative Investments to a Traditional Portfolio (1998-05)
- Alternative Products and Portfolio Strategies
- Exhibit 3: Alternative Investment Products and Portfolio Strategies (2005)
- Investment Products
- Portfolio Strategies
- Exhibit 4: Portable Alpha in Action (2005)
- How Prevalent Are Alternative Portfolio Strategies?
- Exhibit 5: North American Adoption of Alternative Investment Products and Strategies (2005)
- Challenges Abound: Business and IT Implications
- Overseeing the Overlays
- Derivatives, Derivatives, Derivatives!
- Exhibit 6: Derivatives Markets Volume and Operational Backlog in Trade Processing (2003-05)
- Reference Data: Garbage In, Garbage Out
- Exhibit 7: Alternative Portfolio Strategies: IT Hot Spots (2005)
- Summary
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