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May 03, 2012
The life of an unknown actor and a start up hedge fund are not so different: constant rejection often leading to a wavering sense of self and purpose
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May 03, 2012
A bit like a metallic umbrella in a lighting storm, crowding in these types of investments is actually likely to lead to the manifestation of an investor’s worst nightmares
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April 04, 2012
The art of successful hedge fund investing has always been to balance carefully the subtleties of the strategies they were mixing and knowing what would trigger their dark side to emerge, when and for how long
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April 04, 2012
In general, many public pensions have embraced the direct-allocation approach and use of specialist consultants in the name of fee reduction
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April 04, 2012
Despite the negative returns last year and a renewed contraction in assets and numbers of funds trading, the stage is already set for this anticipated ‘great leap forward’
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March 05, 2012
What is the right prescription for a potentially fatal lack of alpha?
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March 05, 2012
Rightly, or wrongly, pension fund CIOs are deciding in ever increasing numbers that FoHFs can no longer charge ‘hedge fund’ fees for services that are tantamount to consulting work
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March 05, 2012
Because hedge fund managers can offer investors the ability to hedge as well as to dial up and down the risk they want to take, they offer what is simply a better and more sophisticated way to manage money
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February 02, 2012
If investors are no longer buying products with verifiable track records, just how are investors supposed to know how to pick a good adviser?
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February 02, 2012
The ability of hedge fund dragons to vaporise this year may leave institutional investors sceptical of the long term power of the magic of the dragons
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February 02, 2012
Unlike in late 2008 – there is not (yet) any wide-scale sense that the industry is facing an impending tidal wave of redemptions
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December 05, 2011
Asset management dynamic is back in play as hedge funds try to navigate the retail minefield
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December 05, 2011
Next year’s investment decisions will need to be based on realising investment goals rather than paralysis and passivity
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November 03, 2011
Many FoHFs are cantering towards the advisory world
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November 03, 2011
Hedge funds are as useful a tool as ever to skirt around the thorny issues troubling global equity markets
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October 03, 2011
The evolution of hedge fund investing has been a bit like playing with Lego. The first box comes with instructions that are copied assiduously. Over time, the enthusiast glides effortlessly into creativity
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October 03, 2011
Emerging-manager allocations have become a private equity-like deal with investor and manager incentives being more fully aligned for a set period of time
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September 05, 2011
This new decade has the look and feel of a new and more enlightened phase of hedge fund investing
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September 05, 2011
When it comes to fighting the good fight many investors have headed off to the court rooms and have had some mixed results
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July 05, 2011
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”
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July 05, 2011
The road map for pensions is anything but a single Interstate cutting through the centre of the country
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June 03, 2011
Formula 1 winners may sometimes scoop a win simply because another has crashed
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June 03, 2011
The search for long-term alpha has never been more confusing or more necessary
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