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Chart Of The Day – Management Fees of Hedge Funds Launched Last Year
A Polite Request From AQR’s Cliff Asness
By Cliff Asness, Managing Principal of AQR Capital Management I Would Politely Request People Stop Saying These Things: “It’s a stock picker’s market.” I don’t know what it means to say, “It’s a stock picker’s market.” It may mean the whole market isn’t going straight up now so you have to make your […] Read more »
Thought For the Day – A Need For Hedging
Extract From Year End Newsletter: “Last year marked the 5th year in a row that equity market indices have significantly outperformed the hedge fund industry. For those who were brave enough in 2009 to go long the market and to allocate a good portion of their portfolios into long only funds (or simply into hedge […] Read more »
Top Hedge Fund Stories Of 2013
By Hedge Fund Insight staff These are the most read stories on Hedge Fund Insight in the last year: 1 The Hedge Fund Hot 100 February 2013 2 Addressing the Fable of the Death of Managed Futures September 2013 3 Acceleration in Downtrend for Funds of Hedge Funds November 2013 4 Into the Mind of […] Read more »
Chart Of The Day – Operating Margins Across Hedge Fund AUM Range
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Today’s Chart Of The Day comes from the Citi Prime Finance 2013 Business Expense Benchmark Survey released this week. We have known for some time that the balance of supply and demand post 2009 has been such that it has meant that hedge funds, even very well known and large […] Read more »
Fact Of The Day on European Hedge Fund Assets
By Hedge Fund Insight staff European hedge funds have shown consistent performance on the back of strong returns from the markets in the last year. YTD in 2013 the median return of Europe’s hedge funds is 6.3% (source: EuroHedge). This type of performance plus resurgent risk appetite among investors this year has resulted in greater […] Read more »
Managed Futures Tipping Point?
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In September managed futures put in their fifth consecutive month of back-to-back losses. The bigger CTAs in aggregate have lost just over 6% so far in 2013. Smaller CTAs have suffered loses too, with their NAVs off just short of 3% in the YTD period. According to eVestment the hedge […] Read more »
For Some Time Only Outlier Hedge Funds Will Advertise
From StreetID For more than a year, Wall Street watchers have been hyping the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act as a significant piece of legislation. Many experts said that it could lead to new firms in the financial sector. Others anticipated a transformation within the hedge fund industry. Some believed that it would foster the creation of new jobs. Ron […] Read more »
Chart of the Day – What QE Looks Like: Reserve Balances at the Federal Reserve
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Figures in Billions of Dollars Source: Fed, Bloomberg, McAlinden Research Partners, Catalpa Capital Advisors | catalpacapital.com Read more »
The Biggest Asian Investors in Hedge Funds
The Biggest Asian Investors in Hedge Funds source: Preqin Hedge Fund Investor Profiles Read more »