By Andrew Beer Chief Executive Officer of Beachhead Capital Management The model for allocating to equity long/short funds is broken. The mentality of most allocators is to chase the “hot dot” – that is, invest with a fund that performed well recently and hope the hot streak continues. This approach is based on the discredited assumption […] Read more »
Is This What Hedge Fund Replication Is Supposed to Look Like?
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight When I received the press release headed “IndexIQ Announces December 2015 Performance of Its IQ Hedge Family of Investable Benchmark Hedge Fund Replication Indexes” I thought I would have a look at the (relative) returns. According IQ “the IQ Hedge™ Indexes comprise the first family of […] Read more »
Skill-Based Investing Being Squeezed Out Of The Hedge Fund Industry
By Peter Douglas of GFIA, with an introduction by Simon Kerr When Richard Hills wrote “Hedge Funds: An Introduction to Skill-based Investment Strategies” in 1996 the hedge fund industry consisted of relatively few firms dominated by the idiosyncratic talents of their seasoned leaders. The landscape today is very different – many of the investment […] Read more »
Given These Returns, Where Does A Specialist Managed Futures Fund of Funds Go?
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight and Principal of Enhance Consulting One of the major decisions taken by the investing institutions that came back to hedge funds after the Credit Crunch was to stick with CTAs. In the period after the Credit Crunch that was not difficult – the Barclay CTA index was […] Read more »