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A Close Look at the Deutsche Bank Findings
In the course of a busy news cycle, this tidbit was largely overlooked: in June 2014, Deutsche Bank raised $…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Copper Prices: Why the Downslope?
An underlying fact, noted here for example by our own Shane Brett a year and a half ago, is that “the easiest…
Risk Management
Lies, Damned Lies and Alpha
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.--Benjamin Disraeli Investors equate “alpha”…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Comparing SPM to Elliott: And Other Thoughts on MBS Funds
What struck me while interviewing Brian Shapiro about the current state of the hedge fund world’s MBS space…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Study: Corporate/Government Cronyism Does Create Alpha
Three scholars, two affiliated with Oxford University, the other with the University of Connecticut, have…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Tavakoli on Death, an Industry’s Culture, and Decisions
Janet Tavakoli, the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance and an authority on credit derivatives, has…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Eurelectric Speaks Up For Grushenka
Sometimes I can’t help but think of a passage from The Brothers Karamazov: “It was known too that the young…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Latest News from Italian Banking and the Dane-geld
Rudyard Kipling famously warned that once a nation starts “paying the Dane-geld” it will never get rid of the…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
They Do It Right Down Under: Australian Institutional Funds
A new paper by two scholars affiliated with the University of New South Wales compares Australian…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
EDHEC: Geography is Not Just a Listing or Headquarters
In a new report, five scholars affiliated with EDHEC Risk Institute, find that for many equities, the ‘…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Liquidity, Leverage and Those Nimble Hedge Funds
The Q1 2015 issue of AIMA Journal, the issue that marks that association’s 25th anniversary, includes an…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
EDHEC: Smart Beta Indexes May Be On a Launch Pad
EDHEC-Risk Institute surveyed 222 European ETF investors and found a lot of support for some innovative…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Intraday Momentum Confirmed: Day Traders Credited
If a drunk is walking randomly around a lamppost, then the fact that his first step of the day was away from…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
More Global Mandates, Fewer EM Mandates, and Other Changes
The March 2015 report from Eurekahedge makes a point of how much the hedge fund world has changed since 2007…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Alpha, Love, and Marriage
Personal distractions lessen a manager’s ability to produce alpha. This is true of both happy and unhappy…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation