Research and Selection Support
Over 15 years of direct alternatives research — hedge funds, liquid alternatives, and QIS. Independent and open-architecture.
Manager Selection
Every choice held to portfolio standard.
Fifteen years of alternatives research. A systematic framework. A network that goes well beyond the prospectus. We support investors in identifying, evaluating, and overseeing alternative managers — with the depth to make the decision, and the documentation to justify it.
Selecting a manager is the easier half. Governing the allocation over time is where most processes fall short.
How do we build a selection process rigorous enough to withstand internal and regulatory scrutiny?
How do we distinguish genuine, repeatable skill from beta dressed as alpha?
How do we monitor allocations continuously — and act when the evidence demands it?
Research infrastructure that you can see and use
Ensemble, our proprietary research platform, covers 3,000+ hedge funds, absolute-return UCITS, and QIS strategies — combining quantitative and qualitative analysis into a documented, defensible research record. Clients draw directly on its analytics and monitoring infrastructure.
Institutional-grade coverage of hedge funds, liquid alternatives, and QIS in a single platform
Qualitative and quantitative analysis combined: strategy design, factor exposures, portfolio fit
Reporting, monitoring alerts, and IC-ready documentation built into the workflow
Governance that continues after the decision is made.
A manager right twelve months ago may not be right today. Strategy drift, personnel change, and factor shifts all affect whether an allocation is still earning its place. We monitor continuously. When something changes, we say so — with the evidence documented.
Ongoing review with defined monitoring criteria and escalation triggers
Attribution across sources of risk and return, not headline performance alone<
Liquidity, fee, and mandate compliance tracked over time and reported clearly
We publish our thinking. That is part of the process.
The depth of our manager research is visible in what we write. Our Insights programme covers the structures, failure modes, and fee dynamics of alternative strategies — in the kind of detail that typically stays in an investment committee room. It is part of how we show our working, and part of what makes our selection judgments credible.
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The 27 biggest operational due diligence failures that shook institutional allocations
- Quant Hedge Funds: A Due Diligence Framework by Strategy Types
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The Metric Every Pitch Deck Gets Backwards
A manager triples assets in three years and every IC memo calls it validation. Bigger book, more institutional interest, stronger franchise. Almost nobody in the room asks the only question that actually matters: at what size does this ...
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Crowding Isn't One Trade. March Proved It.
It's the first week of July, and the book is still working through the sharpest momentum unwind since 2023 — two weeks of losses that gave back roughly a quarter of the year's gains, per Goldman's prime brokerage desk. It's the fifth time ...
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June 2026 QIS Update: Carry Paid Again. Convexity Still Didn't.
June was a modest month on average but a cleanly split one underneath, and the reason was that two of the year's supporting premia were pulled away in the same four weeks. The Middle East war premium that had carried energy and gold ...
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