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Protecting existing investment portfolios

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by: Charlie Board
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 Time: 9:17 AM
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If you are a fund manager you will be well aware that organisations such as the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) have called for greater transparency in investments, coupled with more accountability for fund managers in regard to acceptable levels of investment risks. This is not surprising, given the devastating effect of the turbulent investment markets of 2007 and 2008.

As a consequence of this many fund managers are calling in the services of external companies, not only to assess the risk/returns for investments in new portfolios but also to build tools into the portfolio that continually monitor for unexpected variations in performance. This means that any investment which performs outside of preset parameters is flagged up immediately for the attention of the fund manager.

By having access to this information the fund manager can then take steps to make sure that any poorly performing investment does not impinge on the overall profitability of the portfolio. Many fund managers are implementing these strategies in order to be able to show both transparency and personal accountability criteria are being met with regard to new portfolios. However, they can be just as useful for existing portfolios.

The temptation, of course, is to leave portfolios where the investment is already in place; as new business needs to be found and managed. But this can leave you exposed to unseen investment risks. Here at Alpha Finance Advisors we not only help with constructing new portfolios with a robust framework, but we can also take your existing portfolios and apply our four step approach to making them more secure.

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