Incisive Views from Professionals
By Simon Kerr, Publisher Hedge Fund Insight Smarts with structure, Fees on fees, Ego and talent, Brand names dominate, Rich List Members, Mayfair and Tri-State, Investments, letters, flows, Surname over door, Tactics subsuming strategy, Controlled risk investments, This month, then? Portfolio manager mavens, Big get bigger, Regulations throttling […] Read more »
Because its purpose is to create a customer, any business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs. Peter Drucker Read more »
By Shane Norman These are three noteworthy trends at work in the hedge fund industry that augment the Hedge Fund Hot 100 published here recently: REGULATED HEDGE FUNDS: I have a secondary role as adviser to ML Capital, owner/ manager of the MontLake UCITS Platform. It has been instructive to watch this business grow from […] Read more »
If you interrogate Alexa.com about hedge funds you can get some interesting responses. Apparently, Alexa’s algorithms relate hedge funds to these two interesting websites: www.abovethelaw.com Keywords: trust fund, legal blogs and www.codinghorror.com Keywords: hire programmers, programmers, coding, stackoverflow Read more »
Growth of DB Pension Fund Assets in Hedge Funds Source: Pensions & Investments, Among the top 200 funds; assets are in billions for years ended Sept. 30. Investment in hedge funds among the 200 largest U.S. retirement funds jumped 20.3% to $134.7 billion in total hedge fund and hedge funds-of-funds in the year ended Sept. […] Read more »
Jim Chanos, founder of $6bn Kynikos Associates, has disclosed what he’s looking for as a short seller: an exodus from a company, a large amount of stock sales, and companies impacted by technological change (the internet being his perfect example). He advises that in shorting you have to be very careful of not shorting concepts […] Read more »
By HFI Staff Writer Last year UCITS hedge funds assets under management (AUM) increased by 20% to reach a new high of €140 billion. The latest quarterly European research on the UCITS hedge funds industry published by Alix Capital, the Geneva-based provider of the UCITS Alternatives Index (UAI) family of indices, reveals that more than […] Read more »
A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who’s dressed in a hand-made English suit, a Jermyn Street shirt, an Hermes tie, and hand-lasted shoes. Saint Peter addresses the suit. “Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to […] Read more »
“The change of a single letter (in the name of the U.K.’s financial regulator from FSA to FCA) will require the regulator to spend six months thinking about nothing but themselves.” Asset Management Practice Leader of City Law Firm Read more »
“Living a life is not like walking across a field.” Russian proverb Read more »