By GFIA Team, led by Peter Douglas The monthly “thinkpiece” as we call it in GFIA, is usually a qualitative commentary on what we’re seeing at the moment in our world. This month, however, we’re going to go over some of our learnings from 28 years’ exposure to the world of professional investing (and including […] Read more »
Are Hedge Fund Managers with More Than Two Screens More Productive?
By Simon Kerr, Principal of Enhance Consulting I worked with a portfolio manager in the Eighties who got a list of prices over the phone each morning – he did not have a price terminal at all. Today everyone in professional money management roles will have a screen with a price feed (Bloomberg, Reuters etc.), […] Read more »
Is This The Most Costly Graphic In The Hedge Fund Industry?
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The world is full trusims and half-truths as well as data and information. The hedge fund industry has a disproportionate share of all of these. And this graphic and it’s heading are a major contributor to the truism and half-truth columns: “An alarmingly high proportion of hedge […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Risk Management is “A Work in Progress”
By Simon Kerr For a long period I was unable to carry on reading SEI’s fifth annual global survey of institutional hedge fund investors beyond this summary point: “RISK MANAGEMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Only one in five of those we polled agreed that “most hedge funds do a good job of risk management.” […] Read more »
Risk Managers are the Social Workers of Asset Management?
Recent research has shown that in the UK 86% of youth workers/social workers time is spent in completing forms for reporting, and in attending meetings about clients and how the services are run. Only 14% of time is spent with clients. This skewed sense of priorities came to mind when I read the 2011 Risk […] 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 »