New Qualitative Library Tackles Current Road Blocks To Investing In Alternative Investments

April 28, 2009 - PRLog -- A new qualitative library, Alternative Decisions, intends to rejuvenate investor confidence in allocating to alternative investments. This will be achieved by broadcasting literature from alternative fund managers that are transparent and open. The platform “pulls” on managers to provide institutional friendly reporting and disclosures, while providing free access to professional investors.

Despite having cash to invest, institutional investors are hesitant to reallocate to alternative investments. At the same time alternative fund mangers are handicapped by investor inertia. Alternative Decisions solves these problems by connecting institutional investors to alternative fund managers through a research library requiring high standards in communication and reporting.

Over 90% of European institutional investors believe fund reporting is an important indicator of overall manager quality. Also 70% of investors require certain disclosures before they invest. No one has yet aggregated literature to satisfy investors’ qualitative requirements - Alternative Decisions does just this by showcasing the fund managers that have investor-friendly reporting and disclosures.

Regulated alternative funds, such as UCITS III vehicles, also feature in the library.

Alternative Decisions was co-founded by eHedge, a European based hedge fund consultant and performance tracker. Institutional investors registered on www.ehedge.info, which contains data on some 2,400 "live" alternative funds from 1,100 investment groups, will be the first users of the new service. Additional users will be invited to join the research library.

Adrian Durrant, co-founder and Managing Partner of eHedge said:
“This new service to the alternative investment industry embodies the spirit and core values upon which our business was founded: independence of thought and action, investor-care and innovation. We strive to make that significant difference, in everything we do.”

Lawrie Chandler, co-founder of Alternative Decisions said:
“Investors and alternative fund managers seem poles apart. Everyone knows the issues around alternative investments but there is no obvious way to get things working again. We believe we’ve created a third way with Alternative Decisions.

Alternative Decisions pulls on and requires managers to have quality reports and portfolio transparency to be eligible for the library. Institutions using Alternative Decisions are happier that higher and harder standards are being respected as they know managers in the Library wish to be more open. We build investor trust through the impartiality of Alternative Decisions and as a by-product showcase those managers subscribing to higher standards.

Our work helps investors to re-start their investment in alternatives and also creates a platform to assist alternative fund managers to stand out from the crowd. We believe we are taking a significant stride forward in these changing times.”

Notes to Editors
To learn more visit www.alternativedecisions.info.

eHedge AG
eHedge AG is a European based consultant and performance tracker based in Germany. The group was founded in 2000 by bmp Venture Capital and LCF Rothschild among others. Core to eHedge AG is an extensive hedge fund database, which contains performance information on some 2,400 "live" alternative funds from 1,100 investment groups worldwide. The Frankfurt based company is known for its independence and on-going innovation in consulting to institutional investors across continental Europe and the UK.

Demographics of institutional investors on Alternative Decisions (Apr 09)
Germany 26%
UK 18%
Lux 16%
France 12%
Switzerland 10%
Portugal 8%
Other 10%

For more information contact

Adrian Durrant    +49 (69) 2710 7612           adrian.durrant@ehedge.info

Lawrie Chandler   +44 (20) 7193 7992            lawrie.chandler@ehedge.info

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Alternative Decisions is a community for institutional investors to find and fund mangers to share literature on their alternative investment funds. Find performance reports, due diligence questionnaires, presentations, market surveys and more.