The Environment Is Good For Systematic FX As Well As CTAs

By Douglas Garistina Chief Executive Officer of Sequoia Capital Fund Management   ‘What is a favourable environment for my strategy’ is a question that every portfolio manager must be able to understand and identify. The answers will, of course, depend on what type of strategy is being run, the markets the strategy focuses on, its […] Read more »

How Many Hedge Funds? Only 15-20 For The Highly Skilled

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By Stephen L. Nesbitt, CEO and Eli J. Sokolov, Managing Director of Cliffwater LLC Introduction We first wrote about how many hedge funds constituted an appropriately diversified portfolio in 2006, arguing that most investors tended to over diversify their hedge fund portfolios, particularly those investing in funds-of-funds.1 We showed that the accumulation of hedge funds […] Read more »