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Here Come the "Safe" Stock Funds
As sure as rain begets mudslides, the bear market has spawned a menagerie of new "safe" equity investments. But only one is worth a cautious try. ...
Tags: Strategy, Fund, Annuity, Stock, Return, Stock Fund, MoneyWatch, Market-Neutral Funds, Absolute-Return Funds, EIA, Investment, Personal Finance, Insurance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Equity-Indexed Annuities, Mutual Fund, Barbara Bedway, Morningstar, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
Articles 2009-05-28

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ABN buys 50% of Absolute
ABN AMRO HAS AGREED TO acquire a 50% interest in the Absolute Capital Group, a Sydney-based alternative investment house. Absolute Capital specialises in the packaging of high yield debt and equity instruments for institutional and retail investors. Its product range of listed funds, unlisted funds and structured products...
Tags: ABN AMRO, equity, FINANCE, Investment
Research articles 2003-12-22
Absolute Capital suspends funds.
Poor trading conditions and the resignation of its founder spell disaster Jonas Crosland Hedge fund manager Absolute Capital Management Holdings ACM has been forced to suspend some of its funds after receiving more than $100m (GBP49.7m) in redemption notices. It has also suspended net...
Tags: ACM, equity, FINANCE, founder, Investment, investor
Research articles 2007-09-19
Absolute Capital to research global funds from Sydney.
Jun 20, 2003 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) Absolute Capital was successful in its buyout of the Man Group's minority stake. Absolute created a strategic alliance in 2001 with Swiss hedge fund RMF. RMF was then bought by the Man Group, which became...
Tags: Man Group Plc.
Research articles 2003-06-20
How Many Hedge Funds Are Needed To Create A Diversified Fund Of Funds?
Hedge Funds generally seek strong absolute returns with low correlation to market indices through one of many hedging strategies. Investors have shown considerable interest in "fund-of- funds" products as an additional way to reduce volatility by diversifying across a group of hedge funds. However, many investors tend to examine the...
Tags: Fund, Hedge Fund, Deviation, Asset Alliance, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2001-03-01
Government Funds Ready for Alternative Investment Products
Brighton House Associates, LLC submits: The number of government funds seeking alternative investment products has been increasing in the past two weeks. In the past week alone, 10 government institutions have indicated their interest in alternatives. This number is an increase from an average of two to three government...
Tags: US Market, Brighton House Associates
External links 2009-07-17
Measuring the Market Impact of Hedge Funds
Hedge funds often employ opportunistic trading strategies on a leveraged basis. It is natural to find their footprints in most major market events. A ‘‘small bet'' by large hedge funds can be a sizeable transaction that can impact a market. This study estimates hedge fund exposures during a number of...
Tags: Hedge Fund, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Tactica UK rolls out set of balanced funds.
Byline: New products will be managed by Goldman Sachs using its own investment process Launch Tactica UK has launched a set of balanced funds, giving access to the investment process used by Goldman Sachs for its own assets, in order to...
Tags: asset, FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Investment
Research articles 2007-06-25
Gam fund aims to offer stable absolute returns; Gam has launched multi-arbitrage fund of hedge funds managed by Dorothy Dewitt.(Global Asset Management Associates Inc.)
Shaista Ahmed Funds of hedge funds are becoming increasingly popular as volatility in equity markets continues. Fund of hedge funds aim to build diversified portfolios, limiting exposure to risk and volatility. However, despite this limited risk approach, European hedge...
Tags: Global Asset Management
Research articles 2002-10-14
Introduction to Hedge Funds - Part Two: Advantages and Questions
Part One of this series, explains that hedge fund managers actively manage investment portfolios with a goal of absolute returns regardless of overall market or index movements. Hedge funds, however, conduct their trading strategies with more freedom than a mutual fund, typically avoiding registration with the SEC. In this part...
Tags: Hedge Fund, Investopedia, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-12-10
Comparative Analysis of Linear Portfolio Rebalancing Strategies: An Application to Hedge Funds
This paper applies formal risk management methodologies to the optimization of a portfolio of hedge funds fund of funds. The paper compares Conditional Value-at-Risk and Conditional Drawdown-at-Risk with more established Mean-Absolute Deviation, Maximum Loss, and Market-Neutrality approaches. Recent studies of the hedge funds industry are mostly concentrated on the classification...
Tags: University Of Florida, Hedge Fund, Portfolio, Risk Management, Analysis, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Strategy, Finance, Management
White papers 2001-10-30
Kiwi investors take absolute approach.
Byline: Christine St Anne Jan 27, 2006 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Absolute Capital is very pleased with the response it got from New Zealand investors to its...
Tags: ABN AMRO, FINANCE, investor
Research articles 2006-01-27
Comparative Analysis of Linear Portfolio Rebalancing Strategies: An Application to Hedge Funds
This paper applies formal risk management methodologies to optimization of a portfolio of hedge funds fund of funds. It compare recently developed risk management methodologies: Conditional Value-at-Risk and Conditional Drawdown-at-Risk with more established Mean-Absolute Deviation, Maximum Loss, and Market Neutrality approaches. The common property of considered risk management techniques is...
Tags: Hedge Fund, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Risk Management, Analysis, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management
White papers 2001-11-01
Mutual Funds and the U.S. Equity Market
Mutual funds have grown rapidly over the past decade, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of household assets, in large part because of the growth of retirement saving accounts. In defined contribution pension plans and individual retirement accounts, households directly control the allocation of their retirement assets and...
Tags: Mutual Fund, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2000-12-01
News: Success of hedge funds not enough to ward off critics.
Byline: Tom Willetts Hedge funds are facing a wave of criticism despite many delivering absolute returns during extreme volatility, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association AIMA. Critics singled out hedge funds last month when HBOS became the victim of false...
Tags: Alternative Investment Management Association, FINANCE, Investment
Research articles 2008-04-14
Dexion fund of hedge funds gets UK listing.
Byline: Kim Hunter Dexion Capital, the London based management company, has launched a fund of hedge funds within a closed end investment company wrapper.The fund, called Dexion Absolute, is based in Guernsey. The tax efficient structure is aimed at appealing to institutional investors. The...
Tags: Aurora Ltd., Harris Associates L.P.
Research articles 2002-12-20
Passive Investing Trends
Index funds are on the rise. Assets flowing into index mutual funds have been growing rapidly both in absolute terms and relative to inflows into actively managed funds. Largely, index fund returns throttle the active competition, particularly in bull markets. When the market is steaming ahead, every dollar not invested...
Tags: Mutual Fund, Inflow, Index Fund, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2001-07-01
Portfolio theory: 21st century style.
May 17, 2005 (Financial Planning - ABIX via COMTEX) Funds that offer absolute returns are expected to grow by 35 per cent over the next five years in the US in terms of inflows. Professor Les Balzer, of the University of New South Wales, says...
Tags: FINANCE, investor, theory, University of New South Wales
Research articles 2005-05-17
Fund latest among those using hedging strategies.(Street Wise)
Byline: Jeff Benjamin The Absolute Strategies Fund ASFAX is among the latest entries into an increasingly crowded space of mutual funds that apply various hedging strategies, and it offers a good example of how the level of sophistication i ...
Tags: asset, software, stock, strategy
Research articles 2006-02-20
Shareholders and investors urge ACM to alter proposals.
A group of investors last week urged hedge fund company Absolute Capital Management to amend its proposals for four of its funds ahead of a shareholder vote. A group of investors last week urged hedge fund company Absolute Capital Management to amend its proposals...
Tags: ACM, investor, shareholder
Research articles 2007-10-29
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