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The hunt for high Alpha

We’re all in this together. The remorseless logic of our market-based economy is that markets rule. They set our prices, our costs and provide a benchmark for us to measure ourselves against. For any profit-making organisation, the only way to set ourselves apart from the pack is to hunt for, and capture, Alpha.

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By strict definition of financial terms, Alpha is the active return of an investment versus a benchmark, usually a market index.