{"id":63067,"date":"2018-04-04T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63067"},"modified":"2018-04-03T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T03:26:51","slug":"the-power-of-focus-looking-for-alpha-in-a-sea-of-beta-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/the-power-of-focus-looking-for-alpha-in-a-sea-of-beta-white-paper.html","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Focus: Looking for Alpha in a Sea of Beta (white paper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) Investors are increasing allocations to focused strategies, or investment strategies consisting of approximately 50 or fewer securities. Focused strategies make up 20%\u201330% of total active equity assets among the 75 institutional investors and intermediary fund platforms participating in a recent Greenwich Associates study. Fifty-six percent of these institutional investors have increased allocations to focused strategies over the past 12\u201318 months, and 30% of intermediaries have increased their recommendations of focused equity strategies over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Driving this growth is the pressing need for alpha among investors who are: 1) relying on market outperformance to meet their long-term goals and funding needs, and 2) allocating growing shares of their investment portfolios to passive strategies designed to deliver low-cost beta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvst.com\/posts\/the-power-of-focus-looking-for-alpha-in-a-sea-of-beta-white-paper-wPZT3lWN\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) Investors are increasing allocations to focused strategies, or investment strategies consisting of approximately 50 or fewer securities. Focused strategies make up 20%\u201330% of total active equity assets among the 75 institutional investors and intermediary fund platforms participating in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63068,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067\/revisions\/63068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}