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``If you can make it past the jargony horror of the fund names and their strategies, they're a pretty interesting bunch.
Funds by country Hedge Three new members have joined EDHEC-Risk Institute’s international advisory board, which brings together scholars, representatives of regulatory bodies and senior executives from business partners and other leading...
The Blackstone Group is set to launch a new hedge fund that will invest in other hedge fund managers' top trades. The planned "super" hedge fund will be something akin to a best ideas fund of hedge funds.
Paulson & Co. is not spooked by the recent swoon in gold prices—a swoon that cost firm founder John Paulson in excess of $1 billion. read more
Guest columnist Andrew Beer re-visits two significant studies on hedge fund replication.
Hedge funds rose 0.62% last month, according to the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index. read more
Hedge Equity-focused hedge fund strategies exhibited returns that were broadly consistent with market dynamics in February, according figures released by Edhec-Risk.
United States funds Hedge Absolute return (AR) strategies appear to be gaining acceptance and momentum among financial advisers, according to the Brinker Capital’s Q4 Brinker Barometer survey.
Leverage, as measured by NYSE Margin Debt data, was up 31.6% on the year in January and 10.2% on the month to $364 billion, approaching the July 2007 peak of $381 billion. read more
Hedge Funds Review Hedge funds remain the single largest allocation for US university endowments but an extended period of lacklustre returns is leading some in the endowment community to question their value.
Hedge Funds Review Changes are taking place at Gam as the hedge fund manager reorganises its operations and acquires a minority stake in US-based manager QFS. Gam now manages $48 billion across its entire product range.
TweetIt’s been almost a year since we expanded our look at managed futures mutual funds to consider the new entrants into the space, and now we have a year’s worth of data to test our hypothesis that these funds would, in aggregate, underperform...
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Vincent Denoiseux, a director in Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management systematic funds business, analyses the smart beta trend of investors looking to create portfolios of risk factors.
Risk.net CEO of the Cern Pension Fund Theodore Economou says pension funds should use the techniques of the best global macro hedge fund managers to control risk and volatility while producing absolute returns ...
Market neutral hedge funds increased their market exposure to 16% net long, as of mid-May, approaching a 2012 high, according to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hedge Fund Monitor. read more
Barclays United States funds Hedge Hedge funds gained 0.75 per cent in April, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.
Funds by country Hedge Long/short hedge funds are the top performing strategy in the first quarter of 2013, with cumulative net returns of 4.43 per cent, according to Preqin.
Risk.net Europe's fund of hedge funds industry has suffered AUM declines since 2008 but there are signs of a rising appetite for niche strategies and bespoke mandates.
Betting against JPMorgan Chase's "London whale" was a no-brainer, a prominent hedge fund manager who profited handsomely from the trade said. read more
Hedge funds were fully invested, with cash levels down to 4.6% in Q4 2012, according to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hedge Funds Monitor. read more
Exchange-traded fund shop ProShares has launched a private-equity vehicle. read more
David Tepper, d'Appaloosa, spécialiste des entreprises en difficultés et du crédit, est en tête du classement.
Everyone knows that for the better part of the past year Apple, Inc.
Hedge Funds Review A recent study by the UK's Government Office for Science disproves commonly held negative perceptions about high-frequency trading and also looks at the impact algorithmic trading has on markets.
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