| Changing the World of Fund Management |
5 |
| The Challenge of Alternative UCITS |
8 |
| Winners and Losers, and Lessons from Leaders |
11 |
| Why Hedge Funds Failed with Newcits But Won’t Anymore |
13 |
| Getting Distribution Right: Best Practice, Communication, and Trust |
15 |
| Stockholm Surprise: How a Nordic Bank Bested London’s Giants |
17 |
| Addressing the Limits of Transparency |
19 |
| All Weather Alphas for Global Distribution |
22 |
| How Far Absolute Return Funds Can Go |
24 |
| Shifting Fortunes for Quantitative Approaches |
26 |
| Changing of the Guard, with Product Line Extensions and Rotations |
30 |
| Innovation of the Year as Polar Opposites Converge |
32 |
| A World of Alternative Realities |
34 |
| Ways Forward: Newcits in Perspective |
37 |
| Performance, Classifications, Fees, and Fund Selection Challenges |
41 |
| The Competition is Much Bigger Than You Think |
44 |
| Hedge fund Newcits: Sharks in a Fishbowl? |
46 |
| VaR, White Swans, and Tails |
49 |
| Emerging Battleground: Protecting Investors and Mutual Funds |
50 |
| Portfolio Construction, Alternatives, and Multi-Asset Funds |
52 |
| Top Conclusions and Recommendations |
54 |
| 1 – Approaching $200 Billion of Alternative UCITS |
9 |
| 2 – The Most Successful Fund Innovations |
12 |
| 3 – Best Practice Communication and Transparency, Ucits vs. Newcits |
16 |
| 4 – New Ways to Help Reach a Broader Customer Base |
18 |
| 5 – Absolute Return, Asset Allocation, or Managed Futures? |
19 |
| 6 – Professional Investor Microsites that Make a Difference |
20 |
| 7 – Low Volatility and Correlations with Arbitrage |
23 |
| 8 – Extending the Product Line with Risk/Return Variants |
26 |
| 9 – When a Fund Grows by $10 Billion and Then Shrinks 70% |
27 |
| 10 – What Happens After You Lose 7% in a Week |
28 |
| 11 – UCITS versus U.S. Mutual Fund Implementation |
29 |
| 12 – Switching Gears from Equity Quant to Global Fixed Income |
31 |
| 13 – The Managed Account Hedge Fund Platform as Alpha Engine |
33 |
| 14 – Delivering Liquid Access to Hedge Funds |
33 |
| 15 – The Best Selling Absolute Return and Alternative UCITS |
35 |
| 16 – Style or Substance? Recently Launched Newcits |
40 |
| 17 – Absolute Return Funds that Deliver Absolutely No Return |
43 |
| 18 – Alternative Launches vs. Europe’s Best Selling Fund |
45 |
| 19 – Balancing UCITS Flexibilities and Constraints |
47 |
| 20 – Packaging Alternative Strategies in a UCITS Format |
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