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Prescient Portable Alpha Bond Fund offering By Reza Ismail, Prescient Head of Bonds September 2024

October 16, 2024

Portable alpha investment strategies emerged in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s as an innovation within institutional portfolio management, driven by the increasing demand for investment approaches that could generate excess returns, or "alpha," independent of market-related risk exposures, generally referred to as "beta." Strictly speaking, alpha is the return that is not explained by the beta-adjusted return.