Heading into 2021, advisors face numerous headwinds: a potential return of inflation, sky high equity prices, possible negative returns on bonds. Yet advisors with retail clients have few good options to protect against these risks, and many that embraced alternative mutual funds and ETFs have been disappointed with low returns, high fees and large drawdowns.
The questions advisors are asking today is:
How can retail investors gain exposure to leading hedge funds yet with the client-friendly features of an ETF? Given the difficulties for many hedge funds in the 2010s, will hedge funds will return to the Golden Age of the 2000s, when they generated alpha through two bear markets?
Dynamic Beta’s portfolios seek to match or outperform the portfolios of leading hedge funds by identifying, and investing directly in, the key drivers (or factors) that explain recent pre-fee performance. Its engine is based on over a decade of research into the primary sources of returns among Equity Long/short, Managed Futures and Multi-strategy hedge funds. Its portfolios consist only of highly-liquid futures and/or ETFs.
We are here to talk about hedge fund replication and how advisors can access hedge fund strategies without the burdensome cost and illiquidity of alternative investment classes.
Advisors and allocators have struggled for years with a simple question:
How can my clients get the diversification benefits of leading hedge funds, but in a mutual fund or ETF with reasonable fees and less downside risk?
In this webinar, Andrew Beer will explain how hedge fund replication is a potential solution. Hedge fund replication, broadly defined, is a strategy that seeks to match or outperform hedge fund returns with lower fees, daily liquidity and less downside risk by mimicking the core exposures and trading strategies of high cost, illiquid hedge funds. The webinar will cover key educational topics, such as
The presenters will be available after the presentation to answer attendees' questions live.
Model portfolios are built on the premise that asset allocation drives long term portfolio returns. Alternative strategies like hedge funds can provide diversification benefits that may improve long-term returns and reduce drawdowns.
A recent study by New York Life highlighted rising interest among institutional investors in alternative ETFs, which can help to reduce fees and offer better liquidity than traditional hedge funds. ETFs have other benefits as well: transparency, flexibility to efficiently increase and decrease target allocations, reduced manager oversight, and reporting simplicity.
