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Macro Mondays: Hedge Funds
Article By:
Jennifer Coombs
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Monday, November 13, 2017 4:47 AM EDT
Hedge funds are alternative investments using pooled funds that employ numerous different strategies to earn active return, or alpha, for their investors.
Life In A Low-Return World: To Hedge Or Not To Hedge?
Article By:
Russell Investments
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 1:05 PM EDT
If a portfolio contains unhedged international assets, then an exchange risk is being automatically taken without being paid, i.e., unrewarded risk. This currency exposure is only a by-product of the asset exposures.
Should You Want To Invest In A Hedge Fund That Doesn’t Want A Performance Fee?
Article By:
ValueWalk
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 7:16 AM EDT
With certain fund managers struggling to beat stock market index benchmarks, investors have been questioning why they should pay management and performance fees when there isn’t much performance? Lee Ainslie thinks he might have the answer.
In this article: VRX
Hedge Fund Strategies In The Aftermath Of Global Crisis
Article By:
AllAboutAlpha
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Friday, October 20, 2017 6:07 AM EDT
Emerging markets funds are the preferred choice for those investors who require high returns and are not afraid of taking high risks.
Career Risk Driving The Bull Market?
Article By:
ValueWalk
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Saturday, October 14, 2017 7:37 PM EDT
October is when professionals starting thinking about risk– not necessarily portfolio risk, per say, but rather career risk. In investing, the professional game isn't so much risking client assets to deliver performance but keep your job.
‘I Ought To Know Better’: Jim Grant Apologizes For Suggesting Bridgewater Is Fishy
Article By:
The Heisenberg Report
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Friday, October 13, 2017 8:28 PM EDT
Our critique of Bridgewater remains the same as it ever was. For markets in general, the only question regarding Bridgewater is this: will the correlations that underpin risk parity hold up? And if not, what happens when risk parity unwinds?
Is Bridgewater A Fraud? Here Are The Troubling Questions Posed By Jim Grant
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:36 PM EDT
To be sure, the fund's billionaire founder may simply have lost a desire to manage money and has instead discovered a flair for writing books and being in the public spotlight.
What Andy Warhol Can Teach Us About Maximizing Trading Profits
Article By:
The Heisenberg Report
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Sunday, October 8, 2017 7:47 PM EDT
Three weeks after comparing fund managers who lose money for their clients by desperately clinging to hypotheses about how the world should work (as opposed to how it actually does work) to the Cassini spacecraft, Bloomberg’s Cameron Crise is back.
Chart: The Trillion Dollar Club Of Asset Managers
Article By:
Jeff Desjardins
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Friday, October 6, 2017 6:08 PM EDT
Today’s chart shows all global companies with over $1 trillion in assets under management (AUM). Not surprisingly, all but 17.1% of assets managed by this $1 Trillion Club are overseen by companies based in the United States.
This Chart Shows How The Smart Money Became Smart
Article By:
Michael Carr
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Monday, October 2, 2017 2:24 PM EDT
As Hurricane Irma approached Florida, traders looked for possible gains. One market that seemed attractive was orange juice.
In this article: DJUBSOJ
Can You Find Quality Companies In Every Sector?
Article By:
WisdomTree
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:40 AM EDT
In what may be the late stages of a bull market, many investors have flocked to quality.
Fund Managers Add Tail Risk Hedges At Fastest Pace In 14-Months
Article By:
The Heisenberg Report
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:08 PM EDT
There was a 9 percentage point rise in the share of money managers buying hedges on their equity books from last month.
In this article: SPX
Hedge Funds Make Gains Of 0.97% In August 2017
Article By:
ValueWalk
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:00 PM EDT
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned 0.97% in August, increasing its run of positive performance to 10 consecutive months. All leading strategies made gains, with equity and macro strategies funds each returning 1.07%.
Sticker Shock: Small Hedge Funds Seen Ditching I-Banking Research Under MiFID
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 4:40 AM EDT
MiFID II is a new set of regulations in Europe that requires investment banks to charge separately for research as opposed to just lumping it into an asset manager's trading fees.