Veryan Allen writes about alternative investments. He helps global allocators and portfolio managers identify robust sources of future absolute return. He has managed several investment styles and now researches new strategies and performance prediction metrics. Mr. Allen also funds manager due diligence and portfolio optimization normally focusing on Asia, where he is usually located.

Veryan Allen's background is in computational intelligence and statistics, which he tries to combine with fundamentals and trading experience. He favors all hedge fund strategies but his own alpha skills are in emerging markets, black box systems and volatility arbitrage.

Visit his Hedge Fund Blog (http://hedgefund.blogspot.com/).