AlphaHedge Unveils Separately Managed Account Platform

A new platform promises to offer long/short equity hedge fund strategies to investment advisors without the high minimums and limited liquidity of traditional hedge funds.

AlphaHedge Capital Partners said it has launched a separately managed account (SMA) platform to provide an array of long/short equity strategies to high-end investment advisors, consultants, family offices, broker-dealers and institutions.

A growing number of investment advisors and their clients are frustrated by the high volatility and low returns from equities over the past decade and are interested in less volatile equity exposure, according to AlphaHedge chairman and CEO Gregory Horn. Long/short equity strategies offer advisors an opportunity to potentially lower a client’s equity risk profile without reducing the underlying allocation, he said.

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