Alternative Asset Manager Database Launched

by Phillip Morton, Investors Offshore.com

21 July 2005

Hedge fund information group Alternative Asset Center has announced the release of the 'Alternative Investment Manager (AIM) Database,' which is heralded as the industry’s largest and most-complete electronic directory specific to alternative investment managers.

The database’s long-awaited release comes after six years of independent industry research, profiling 99% of the world’s most successful alternative investment managers. The database profiles over 2,000 managers (a total of 5,800 key contact persons) controlling over 9,000 separate funds and provides details of assets under management, postal details and up to five key contacts per firm along with fund details, domicile, currency and strategy. The database will be updated on a bi-weekly basis.

Fund and manager information can be sorted and filtered using combinations of any information field, and the database is compatible with Microsoft Office and most CRM platforms. It can be downloaded to and used directly from a PC.

According to AAC, the database was created in response to customer demand for more in-depth managerial contact information, and will benefit not only hedge-fund and fund-of-hedge-fund managers, but also institutional and private investors, and even marketers.

“This qualitative product compliments our existing quantitative analytical databases, and contains an unprecedented amount of information that is unattainable elsewhere on the market,” explained AAC Business Development Manager Nicolas Berner.

“It truly surpasses market standards and expectations," he added.

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