A Discussion with Head of Research of Beach Horizon, Dr. Paul Netherwood. Dr. Netherwood spent four years in the Nineties in trading systems research and development at AHL (Adams, Harding and Lueck, now part of Man Group), and for the last 9 years he has been at Beach Capital Management and Beach Horizon LLP, a […] Read more »
Clarium Capital Management’s hedge fund is down 16.4 percent through November
By Simon Kerr Clarium Capital Managment’s hedge fund is down 16.4 percent through November, according to performance data reviewed by The New York Post. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/thiel_facing_big_loss_5uBnDnncMbzrf1yL6cFbOI#ixzz0Z0qkeUPX Read more »
Ari Kiev and the Trader Trainers
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of HFI I’m sad to record that Ari Kiev died this week – you can find an obituary in The New York Times. Ari Kiev was a psychiatrist with interests in several areas including depression and suicide. He applied his knowledge and techniques to new fields including working with top tier […] Read more »
Risk Management in Hedge Funds –The Role of the Risk Manager
By Simon Kerr, Principal of Enhance Consulting The extract below is taken from an article by Michael Langton, Head of Sales at Quality Risk Management & Operations (QRMO) Limited, that makes some interesting points. It was first published in IPAsia in January 2009. For the full article go to IP Asia or EurekaHedge. Only […] Read more »
The Limits to Fundamental Conviction – Clarium Capital
By Simon Kerr In August 2007, perfectly catching the first public intimations of a financial downwave global macro manager Clarium Capital, then of San Francisco, dispatched a manager letter that took a negative view on economic growth, real estate and the stock market. In the letter they wrote “”We have begun a post-Long Boom phase […] Read more »