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- a mutual fund that takes considerable risks, including heavy investment in unconventional instruments, in the hope of generating great profits
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- CalPERS Seeks Advisors to Broaden Reach in Hedge Fund Market; Expansion Will Look to Diversify Investment Strategies and Styles
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- Research articles 2003-02-18
- 'Help wanted' sign for cutting-edge CIO; PennSERS sees its investment strategies as top draw, despite public-plan salary.(Pennsylvania. State Employees' Retirement System)
- Byline: Jay Cooper HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System's cutting-edge investment program could be the $32 billion plan's best recruiting tool in replacing exiting CIO Peter Gilbert. But some recruiters say findi Byline: Jay Cooper ...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- Hedge funds: Citadel cracks open door; Institutional investors pressure hedge fund manager to provide more information on its investment strategies.( )
- Byline: Christine Williamson CHICAGO - Citadel Investment Group LLC is giving in - at least a little - to the demands of institutional investors who want a closer look at its investment strategies. Investors shouldn't expect to get a penetrating Byline:...
- Research articles 2005-03-07
- Futures And Options Trading For Hedge Funds: The Regulatory Environment
- Futures and options on futures can provide attractive investment opportunities for hedge funds. These funds employ numerous strategies using the futures and options markets, including traditional hedging, overlay and income enhancement. In fact, hedge funds have become an influential force in the currency and fixed income markets and is the...
- White papers 2001-05-03
- Seed Investor Agreements
- Seed investors look at numerous hedge fund managers before making a decision on where to invest their capital. Not only do factors like a solid reputation, strong track record and the right investment strategy matter, one of the most critical factors is the terms the hedge fund manager is willing...
- White papers 2005-10-21
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- Citadel's Top Hedge Fund, CEO Under Siege
- Citadel Investment Group, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, is under heavy attack. And that's making Ken Griffin, the company's founder, fighting mad. Chicago-based Citadel, with nearly $20 billion under management, is reeling from what Griffin is labeling the "single-worse month, by far, in the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- QAI: How Does This Hedge Fund ETF Compare to S&P 500?
- Perry Sadorsky submits: With the equity markets having recovered from their March 2009 lows, there has been some renewed interest in alternative investment products like hedge funds. The IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF QAI is an ETF that tracks the performance of the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy index. The...
- External links 2009-12-01
- News: Henderson unveils global hedge fund.
- UK investors can access a global equity hedge fund following the launch of an alternative investment fund by Henderson Global Investors. The global equity multi-strategy hedge fund will cover markets in Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific. The fund follows Henderson's pan-European and...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- MFS offers hedge fund investment.
- Byline: Ben Wilmot May 25, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Queensland-based investment company, MFS Limited, is raising capital for hedge fund investment. It wants to raise $A100 million for an unlisted company, MFS Alternative Asset. Its strategy...
- Research articles 2006-05-25
- Hedge Fund Classification Using K-means Clustering Method
- Hedge fund databases vary as to the type of funds to include and in their classification scheme. Investment strategy and/or investment style are the basis of this classification. This study uses cluster analysis approach to classify hedge funds. The classification is based on asset class, size of hedge fund, incentive...
- White papers 2003-02-15
- Dow Jones Newsletters Launches New Publication on Flourishing Hedge-Fund Industry; New ``Hedge Fund Trades'' Will Focus on Hedge-Fund Investment, Strategy and Performance
- NEW YORK -- Dow Jones Newsletters today launched a new weekly publication, "Hedge Fund Trades," that covers the thriving hedge-fund industry in the U.S. and around the globe. In the inaugural issue, "Hedge Fund Trades" examines how hedge funds are playing the retail sector; how one manager is putting options...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- CSFB Hedge Fund Investments Group Launches Registered Funds of Hedge Funds in Five Categories
- NEW YORK -- CSFB's Hedge Fund Investments group ("HFI") is pleased to announce the April 1, 2005 launch of funds of hedge funds registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The five fund strategies are Multi-Strategy, Long/Short Equity, Relative Value, Tactical Trading and Event Driven. There is a tax-exempt...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- Mount Lucas Management launches first hedge fund product to meet institutions' need for competitive returns, liquidity and transparency
- Business Editors PRINCETON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 6, 2001 MLM GMSTM challenges hedge fund industry's `seat-of-the-pants' investment management Mount Lucas Management (www.mtlucas.com), a leading provider of managed futures investment programs for institutions and high net worth investors, today announced the launch of its Global Markets StrategyTM, or MLM...
- Research articles 2001-03-06
- The Statistical Properties Of Hedge Fund Index Returns And Their Implications for Investors
- The monthly return distributions of many hedge fund indices exhibit highly unusual skewness and kurtosis properties as well as first-order serial correlation. This has important consequences for investors. It demonstrates that although hedge fund indices are highly attractive in mean-variance terms, this is much less the case when skewness, kurtosis,...
- White papers 2001-10-31
- An Analysis of Hedge Fund Performance Using Loess Fit Regression
- This article analyzes the returns distribution of Hedge Funds strategies, the average returns obtained over the past ten years and their correlation with a traditional portfolio. The aim is to identify the characteristics of each Hedge Fund investment strategy in order to be able to construct an optimal Hedge Fund...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Co-founder of Boston Investment Firm to Depart, Start Up Hedge Fund.
- By Steven Syre, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 15--Richard Mayo of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. will leave the well-known Boston investment firm he helped found 23 years ago to launch a hedge fund with his son and another...
- Research articles 2001-11-15
- Risk Management For Hedge Fund Strategies
- The article states that U.S. Equity Market Neutral strategies are viewed to be among the most straightforward and easily understandable types of hedge fund. These strategies are designed to take advantage of the spread between returns of attractive stocks on the long side and unattractive stocks on the short side....
- White papers 2001-06-21
- Implementation of Hedge Fund Strategies
- Hedge funds expend considerable time and energy in developing investment strategies to generate alpha. The implementation of these ideas, however, is also of critical importance. Transaction costs can substantially reduce and perhaps even eliminate the paper returns to a particular strategy. High turnover and aggressive trading on short-lived information accentuate...
- White papers 2002-11-19
- Sears: It's a Discount Store, Not a Hedge Fund
- A store is a store, not an investment vehicle. Proof of this comes via the miserable quarter Sears Holdings just posted, capped by a $56 million loss. Comps at Sears stores fell 9.8 percent, while same-store Kmart sales were down 7.1 percent, in a quarter when other discounters (Costco and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- San Diego County Retirement Association invests $50 million in Mount Lucas Management's new GMS hedge fund product
- Business Editors PRINCETON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 26 2001 Mount Lucas Management (www.mtlucas.com), a leading provider of alternative investment strategies for institutions and high net worth investors, today announced that San Diego County Retirement Association has invested $50 million in its Global Markets StrategyTM, or MLM GMSTM, hedge fund product,...
- Research articles 2001-03-26
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