ALTERNATIVESOFT LIMITED

Business Description

AlternativeSoft AG is a Swiss incorporated software company.

We pride ourselves on being the leader in providing a quantitative software for Asset Selection, Portfolio Construction, Return Forecasting and Hedge Fund Replication.

Business Services
When buying AlternativeSoft, users can feel confident that they are buying a software whose models are bullet proofed, tested rigorously and refined based on user feedback. They also benefit from our major software updates which occur every 10 months - this includes large models, new features and an enhanced user experience.

Quantitative support is fully inclusive for our clients and trial users. We have been recognised as having an efficient and user friendly team of experts in London.

Business Products
AlternativeSoft dedicates its time and efforts to developing its revolutionary software for Asset Selection and Portfolio Construction - an area which it feels its expertise lie.

Our fundamental principles believe in producing a platform which is quick and easy to use, yet still full of functionality.

As a firm we believe in simplicity, speed and satisfaction. In addition to this we ensure that our calculations and models are fully transparent for our clients.

Business Qualifications
AlternativeSoft is awarded the Silver Medal in the Technology Provider category of Hedge Funds Review's Service Provider Rankings for 2011. For the survey, the majority of responses came from single-manager hedge funds with the most common responders at senior management level such as chief operating officers, chief investment officers, chief financial officers and chief executives as well as portfolio managers. The rankings were based on responses from over over 1,000 hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and investors

Business Staff & Management
AlternativeSoft was formed in 2005 by Laurent Favre (Founder and current CEO) and Stephan Joehri (Strategic Advisor).

Laurent founded AlternativeSoft after four years at UBS Wealth Management where he was head of tactical asset allocation. At UBS, he spear-headed and implemented the investment strategies for CHF110 billion of private client assets, CHF30 billion for mutual funds and was involved in the construction of the first CHF6 billion UBS Wealth Management fund of hedge funds.

Laurent is also a co-author of several books on funds of hedge funds and hedge fund asset allocation and is frequently featured in the Journal of Alternative Investments and other trade journals. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on asset allocation with hedge funds and is an associate researcher at EDHEC-RISK and teacher of courses on hedge funds at Madrid University. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA in finance, both from the University of Lausanne and was a professor of economics and mathematics for 2 years in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Prior to this current advisory position, Stephan worked for AlternativeSoft for 6 years, where he served as CTO and built quantitative models. Prior to that and during his academic studies, he worked in the Quantitative Investment Solutions Team of UBS Wealth Management, Zurich, Switzerland, which involved developing an autonomous stock picking strategy and alternative portfolio optimization techniques.

Stephan holds a Master Degree in Computer Science with specialization in Computational Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. In 2011, he plans to complete his PhD thesis in the area of quantitative finance and alternative investments. Stephan has also co-authored a book on the subject 'Hedge Funds Selection with Quantitative Criteria' (Elsevier Press 2006).

The firm has a dedicated team of developers as well as a Sales and Analytics team based in their Canary Wharf office in London.

All AlternativeSoft employees share necessary traits such as an analytical ability, the willingness to learn and the drive to succeed.

Business Clients
Our clients include the largest pension funds, fund of (hedge) funds, investment banks, endowments and multi-national corporations. Typically these clients use AlternativeSoft to select funds (Hedge Funds, Long Only Funds, and ETFs) and construct fund of fund portfolios.

Business Memberships
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