Investing in 130/30 Funds Asia 2008
130/30 funds - Relax constraints, short the market and enhance returns!
Institutional investors around the world are searching for ways to generate higher risk-adjusted returns amidst volatile market conditions and times of uncertainty. They are demanding from their fund managers innovative alpha enhancing strategies. 130/30 funds, one of the fastest growing innovations over the past several years, are beginning to satisfy the appetite of alpha-hungry investors.
130/30 funds or active short extensions is gaining newfound popularity among investors. “130/30” refers to the investment strategy that maintains 100% net long, by extending the long position to 130% and shorting the market 30%. The concept is easy to understand, but the real challenge is for investors to get comfortable with shorting. Does a little shorting go a long way?
Industry experts estimated that 130/30 assets under management already exceed $50 billion and that the total 130/30 market could reach close to $2 trillion in 2010. In Asia, 130/30 funds are still in their infancy, but it has generated a love affair in Australia and Japan. Will 130/30 strategy be the latest investment fad or new investment paradigm?
Investing in 130/30 Funds Asia is the first and only conference exclusively dedicated to 130/30 strategies in Asia. The event will bring together the industry’s foremost thought leaders and investors
from around the world to Asian institutional investors and asset allocators who are searching for higher returns in the current schizophrenic markets.
