You are talking like any modern MBA or portfolio theory student. I hear the word "alpha" and I gag! Why would you need to pay someone 1 & 20 to do what swaps or other cheaper products could achieve? And that +2% is over years relative to the S&P 500. Any wonder why pension funds and endowments are so mismanaged...because of their short-term concern for "alpha", while paying idiots like Chanos a fortune. Your argument was identical to the one Whitney Tilson used when I originally posted that years ago. Cheers!
I hear both sides of the argument but agree more with Parsad; long term alpha does not matter. You cannot buy things with alpha, but this gets into a whole different argument absolute vs relative, what is risk etc. All I can say is LOL especially re Tilson.