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The Best Offense is a Good Defense: Profiting from Hedging
This time of year one often encounters certain football-fans’ truisms. Sometimes one is told “the best…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
The Growing Problem of Calculating Performance Fees
Hedge funds’ performance fees are a key component of every fund’s Net Asset Valuation calculation. Since the…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Wars and Failed Mergers Make for a Tricky October
The data provider and analyst Eurekahedge, in its latest report, says that hedge funds posted negative…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
GFIA Hedge Fund Manager Review: The End of an Era
For years now, the Singapore-based hedge fund advisor GFIA has sent out its monthly report, Research Insights…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Hedge Funds and Position Crowding
By Andrew Beer As of mid-month October, the S&P 500 was down over 5% and the MSCI World was down 6%. In…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Hedge Funds: Good Run for India, but Troubles in Brazil
 The independent data provider Eurekahedge says in its most recent report that funds investing in India…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Detroit Bankruptcy: Foes Become Allies
Detroit filed for bankruptcy court protection in July 2013. In December, challenges to its eligibility for…
Manager Selection
Asset Managers Need to Ride the Tides
By Diane Harrison While reading "Swimming to Antarctica," the autobiography of Lynne Cox, a a long-distance…
Manager Selection
Signs of a Renaissance in Emerging Manager 'Alpha'
By Peter Urbani The recent announcement by CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the world, that it was…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Self-Employment Tax – Limited Partners Beware!
By Maury Cartine, CPA, JD, Partner in Charge of Alternative Investment Group Tax, Marcum, LLP The IRS…
Manager Selection
Merger Arb: Getting Your Stick to Where the Puck Will Be
This spring and summer’s excitement over Valeant and Allergan, and the former’s desire to acquire the latter…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Eurekahedge: Europe-Focused Managers Took Hits in July
The independent data provider Eurekahedge tells us in its latest report that European and North American…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
All Regional Mandates in Positive Territory YTD
Global equity markets are doing well now and the hedge fund industry benefits. That’s the gist of the latest…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Challenge to Bayesian Probability
A surprising dust-up in the blogosphere in recent days concerns Thomas Bayes, and the distinctive branch of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
Tactical Alpha and Persistence in Hedge Fund Returns
By Andrew Beer A vexing issue with hedge funds is the lack of persistence of returns. Last year’s winners…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation