By Hedge Fund Insight staff Andrew Left’s Citron Research seeks to expose companies whose management is in some way misleading investors. Left digs into SEC filings, financials, management histories and other data to uncover such situations, and he is usually short the stocks he writes about. Here are his 7 Precepts for Shorting: […] Read more »
Holiday Reading for Traders & Investors
By Stephen Hoad, CEO of The Stop Hunter With summer holiday season fast approaching and the question that you keep asking yourself that just wont go away – no not will England go all the way in this years World Cup, but the more important question – ‘what books should I take with me to […] Read more »
Edge Technology Keeps Leadership Position
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Edge Technology Group, a global technology advisory and fully-managed IT service provider, continued to serve a growing number of clients across the spectrum of alternative investment firms throughout 2017. The company added a total of 61 new clients this past year. Fueled by positive dynamics across the hedge fund, […] Read more »
Investment Management and AI: More Partnership Than Takeover
By Clare Flynn Levy of Essentia Analytics In the last year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gone from the purview of science fiction movies to something that appears almost daily in our newsfeeds. Commentators display almost an almost religious zeal in predicting the changes that will be brought about by this latest technological leapfrog. This is not […] Read more »
Coaches Can Take Portfolio Managers & Traders To The Next Level
By Rajan Chopra, CEO of Chopra Coaching LLC Ask traders if they would like coaching to improve performance and one might either get a quizzical look or “Coaching? What’s coaching going to teach me that I don’t already know?” It’s understandable that many are skeptical about the value of coaching and resistant to it […] Read more »
Three Coping Strategies for Investment Decision Making
By Mark Rzepczynski, CEO at AMPHI Research and Trading, LLC The behavioral finance revolution has added immensely to our knowledge on the aberrations from efficient markets and rational expectations. Mistakes happen because we are sloppy thinkers. However, the wide list of behavioral biases does not help us define what it means to be rational in real life […] Read more »
5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Process Using Behavioral Science
By Clare Flynn Levy of Essentia Analytics It’s no secret that professional investors often struggle to apply the theoretical lessons of behavioral finance to their everyday activity. That’s why I founded Essentia Analytics. Our service helps active investors apply behavioral science to their own decision-making and generate measurable alpha gains, as a result. Here […] Read more »
Maverick Continues to Increase Portfolio Concentration into 2016
By Stan Altshuller, Co-founder and Chief Research Officer, and Brett Turenchalk, Analyst – Client Analytics of Novus Partners Inc. Maverick Capital The definition of entrenched, firmly established and unlikely to change, only partially applies to Maverick Capital. It is firmly established in the hedge fund industry as one of the oldest tiger cubs and commands […] Read more »
How To Improve Your Mindset For Trading & Investing
By Taylor Pearson, with an introduction by Simon Kerr of Enhance Consulting Introduction This essay has been published on HFI (with permission) not because it mentions two familiar names/brands from the hedge fund industry (Ray Dalio and Bridgewater, and Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital). Rather, a number of constructions that are key to successful […] Read more »
The Buyers’ Lot in Mergers & Acquisitions
By Ariel Markelevich, Ph.D., CMA, and Leena Roselli for Financial Executives Research Foundation, Inc. Based on recently published financial information, Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity has been on the rise since 2009 with 2013 activity volume valued at $2.9 trillion-the highest since 2008’s $3.1 trillion mark.1 This upward trend has continued into the first […] Read more »