[10May13] [Agriculture, Water, Energy] A SQUARE 10 May 2013
Investing in vital asset classes and macro mega-trends

[04Aug10] [Energy] A SQUARE 04 Aug 2010
A financial product: Alternative energy and oil

[30Jul09] [Renewable Energy] High yielding, stable, investment grade payment streams
The USD3bn comprise about 600MW of solar projects, most of which are located in Europe ...

[14Jul09] [Alternatives] A SQUARE 14 Jul 2009
Virtually all the survey participants associate alt-alt investments with risk diversification, followed by de-correlation

[11Jun09] [Renewable Energy] A Renewable Energy Fund
Sector and theme, renewable energy, fund - systematic with a discretionary overlay

[14May09] [Energy] Energy futures trading fund
Expertise, know how, insights on how weather sensitivity affects energy supply and demand

[19Mar09] [Alternative Energy] Renewable Technologies
Most renewable technologies, in particular solar energy, today, are unable to compete on a cost basis with traditional forms of power generation.

[09Jan09] [Alternatives] How successful have allocations to A SQUARE's alternative alternatives been in the year 2008?
Pure, Intermediary and even select funds that operate within Others, as classified by A SQUARE, have delivered positive, low-non correlating returns

[19Dec08] [Alternatives] An Alt Alt Index
The Alt-Alt Index is “not“ designed to represent the returns of any single manager - this would be better done through a peer group analysis if ...

[19Sep08] [Alternatives] A White Paper - Is there an alternative to alternative asset classes?
The role and relevance of alternative alternatives

[25Jul08] [Clean energy, Water, Infrastructure, Natural resources] Theme Investing
How can you relate and integrate concepts from other disciplines (randomly occurring phenomenon) to create filters, that condition the outcomes of a model to run a fund?

[08Apr08] [Alternatives] Fund of funds that allocates to alternative alternatives
Invests with “early” niche managers - i.e. inefficiency (risk premia) have not been diluted

[31Jan08] [Alternatives] ASQUARE first anniversary issue special - Part III
Looks at how alternative alternatives can be strategically positioned within a portfolio

[24Jan08] [Alternatives] ASQUARE’s First Anniversary Special - Part II
I have chosen to elaborate on foreign exchange (FX - hedging vs. absolute return generation), volatility, hybrids and alternatives to plain

[16Jan08] [Alternatives] ASQUARE's first anniversary special - Part I
Sources of returns that are uncorrelated to the broader financial markets - especially in times of financial distress and when “normally” non-correlating asset classes converge

[10Jan08] [Alternatives] A SQUARE special
Performance, review and 2008 prospects

[21Nov07] [Alternative Energy] A portfolio of renewable energy producing assets
The dependence on land makes renewable energy an unconventional real estate play.

[24Oct07] [Energy/Commodities] Inefficiency specialist
Inefficiencies can take various forms but investors usually uncover them by thoroughly investigating...

[12Sep07] [Alternatives] The Plenum Specialized Commodity Fund
Fund of funds comprises allocations to the shipping and freight sector, energy distillates + uranium, electricity, water +commodity softs - grains and base metals

[27Jun07] [Alternatives] Wood Creek Multi-Asset Fund
"Our internal research indicates that an allocation of between 5-10% to alt alt investment strategies benefits most institutional investors’ portfolios. ..."

[03Apr07] [Alternatives] The Millennium Wave Fund (MWF)
MWF is a fund of alternative funds that invests in non-directional, niche strategies where barriers to entry tend to be high