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Benchmark Plus Real Alpha strategy posts +29% YTD gains in $1.2bn institutional fund of funds

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

From the Opalesque Team:

Opalesque has learned that Tacoma, Washington-based fund of funds firm Benchmark Plus, manager of a range of absolute return and portable alpha strategies returned +29% through September in the firm's $1.2bn institutional fund of funds. Additionally, the firm's long/short alpha strategy returned +2.2% in September (+11% YTD).

According to the firm's website, an investment strategy which focuses on smaller, nimble underlying managers has been responsible for generating positive returns in 11 of the 12 years the fund has been available to outside investors. "We believe there are pockets of inefficiencies that exist within the marke......................

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