Article: ERAAM launches Pure Alpha.

Article: AP7 Slashes HF Allocations, Expands Pure Alpha ...
Daily News;  May 8, 2007 ;     642 words ... ... Fund, known as AP7, is to expand its pure alpha program, the active component of an ... investments, hence the decision to expand the pure alpha program. "The halving of our hedge ... will allow the further expansion of the pure alpha program. Firms that receive mandates ...

Article: AP7 Planning Pure Alpha Switch
Daily News;  May 25, 2007 ;     468 words ... ... planning to switch up to 40% of its assets into pure alpha strategies over the next three to five years ... of assets and switched the investments to its pure alpha program. Pure alpha mandates were awarded to Swedish asset managers ...

Article: Naked ability: Risks of pure alpha; When beta drops ...
Pensions & Investments;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Joel Chernoff Separating alpha from beta raises a very dangerous issue for active money managers: Without market returns to hide behind, can they really deliver added value for clients? The risk is that by pulling aside the curtain provided by the Oz of market returns, it will be revealed

Article: Bridgewater closes all but 3 funds; Dalio says firm will put ...
Pensions & Investments;  December 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... portable alpha using the firm's Pure Alpha multistrategy hedge funds as the returns ... only in its multistrategy hedge funds, Pure Alpha I and II, and its beta strategy, All Weather. The Pure Alpha funds provide the alpha generator for ...

Article: San Joaquin May Add Portable Alpha.
Investment Management Weekly;  February 6, 2006 ;     510 words ... ... Association (SJCERA) may possibly invest in a pure alpha strategy in the near future, said Robert ... We don't have any investments in pure alpha at this point," he said. "We use ... close their currency product and move to pure alpha. The board is just looking at this as ...

Article: Radical shift.(Face To Face)(Interview)
Pensions & Investments;  June 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... come from overlay strategies - primarily Pure Alpha, the firm's hedge fund, and its currency ... mandates were not structured by taking pure alpha - using an overlay on a benchmark. They ... And then we will overlay it with our pure alpha, which is our best alpha mix. And we ...

Article: Bridgewater takes portable alpha route, urges clients to follow ...
Pensions & Investments;  October 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... encouraging our clients to move to the pure alpha approach. In some cases, we are maintaining ... stronger encouragement to move to our pure alpha approach. In some cases, clients with ... all but its multistrategy hedge funds, Pure Alpha I and II. At the time, assets totaled ...