About the firm

The firm was founded in July 2010 as a spin-off of the Horizon21 single hedge fund unit. The firm’s Chairman and CEO, Daniel Schweizer, and the two Senior Portfolio Managers, Michael Uebersax and Silvio Zgraggen, have worked together for more than 15 years. The institutional infrastructure of Active Alpha was built over the past five years.

Active Alpha employs seven professionals and has outsourced a number of non-core functions to external providers.

Active Alpha is regulated by VQF, the leading, largest cross-industry self-regulatory organization pursuant to the Anti-Money Laundering Act - officially recognized by the Swiss Federal Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA):

VQF

Active Alpha is fully compliant with HFSB best practice standards. The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has defined guidelines covering five areas relevant to single hedge fund managers:

• Disclosure, including investment policy and risk disclosure, commercial terms disclosure, performance measurement and disclosure to lenders/prime brokers/dealers
• Valuation, including aspects relating to segregation of functions in valuation and valuation of hard-to-value assets
• Risk management, including portfolio, operational and outsourcing risk management
• Fund governance, focusing on oversight and the mitigation and management of conflicts of interest
• Shareholder conduct, covering prevention of market abuse, proxy voting and stock borrowing
  

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