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- About Hedge Funds
- A hedge fund is a fund that can take both long and short positions, use arbitrage, buy and sell undervalued securities, trade options or bonds, and invest in almost any opportunity in any market where it foresees impressive gains at reduced risk. The primary aim of most hedge funds is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Taking the Mystery Out of Hedge Funds
- A hedge fund is a term commonly used to describe any fund that is not a conventional investment fund - that is, any fund using a strategy or set of strategies other than investing long in bonds, equities mutual funds, and money markets money market funds. Some funds that are...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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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
- Dow Jones expands hedge fund indexes offerings.(Product Watch)
- Dow Jones has expanded the indexes offered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes Inc. DJHFI. Starting last month, DJHFI began publishing the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmark Equity Long/Short (U.S.), which complements the existing five strategie Dow Jones has expanded the indexes offered...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Why Hedge Fund Strategy ETFs Are Catching On
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The first hedge fund linked index ETF launched a few weeks back in the United States, and now Index IQ has created a plan greatly expand their hedge fund replication ETF family. Index IQ’s first hedge fund ETF is setting the bar for...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Firm seeks patent for its hedge fund strategy; But some question whether IRS will give it the nod.(Brief Article)
- A Chicago company claims that its hedge fund tax strategy is so unusual that it's pursuing a patent. But you'll have to take the company at its word. It refuses to discuss what's in the black box. Lotsoff Capital Management's Capital Advantage...
- Research articles 2000-10-02
- Invesco launches capital guaranteed hedge fund.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Following the recent launch of its absolute return hedge fund, Invesco, the South African asset manager, has joined forces with Cadiz Specialised Asset Management, a division of Cadiz holdings, to offer a capital guaranteed hedge fund to South African investors.The Cadiz...
- Research articles 2002-12-09
- Hedge fund indexes on the rise.(Managed Money Review)(Illustration)
- In the late 1990s with mutual funds underperforming benchmarks, investors turned to index funds. As hedge funds continue to grow, investable indexes designed to replicate the hedge fund universe and strategies within that universe are proliferating. In June, Dow Jones granted BNP Paribas...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Hedge fund indexes on the rise
- In the late 1990s with mutual funds underperforming benchmarks, investors turned to index funds. As hedge funds continue to grow, investable indexes designed to replicate the hedge fund universe and strategies within that universe are proliferating. In June, Dow Jones granted BNP Paribas and Lyra Capital LLC rights to sell...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- How Is the New Hedge Fund Strategy ETF Doing?
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The innovators were out with guns blasting as they introduced an ETF that acts like a hedge fund. How has it been doing since the March 25 launch? This new ETF, established by IndexIQ analyzes publicly available hedge fund performance data and then...
- External links 2009-05-10
- AIMA Survey of Hedge Fund Classification Practice
- Several academics and industry practitioners, in conjunction with AIMA, proposed earlier this year, the setting up of an ad-hoc working group to guide research leading to establishing a set of guidelines for hedge fund strategy definitions. To establish the working group, in April 2003, AIMA issued an invitation to its...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- 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
- 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
- An Excursion Into the Statistical Properties of Hedge Fund Returns
- This paper provides an overview of the most important statistical properties of individual hedge fund returns. It finds that the net-of-fees monthly returns of the average individual hedge fund exhibit significant skewness, excess kurtosis, as well as positive first-order serial correlation. The correlations between hedge funds in the same strategy...
- White papers 2002-07-19
- New LBS Podcast Demystifies Synthetic Hedge Funds
- Tuesday's post highlighted a course on pitching a hedge fund offered by professor Leon Metzger at Yale School of Management. Today, we point you to a new London Business School podcast with Narayan Naik, professor of finance and director at LBS's Hedge Fund Centre, who talks about the increasing popularity...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- 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
- IndexIQ's Hedge Multi-Strategy ETF Launches: Doesn't Invest Directly in Hedge Funds
- Ron Rowland submits: A new player in the ETF industry, IndexIQ, made a splash with Wednesday’s launch of a first-of-its-kind “hedge fund replication” ETF. According to the press release (.pdf), the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF QAI will attempt to replicate broad hedge fund returns with low volatility and...
- External links 2009-03-26
- 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
- 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
- Aggressive selling strategy fails to stem hedge recovery.
- Hedge funds started to recover their first-half losses, despite an aggressive selling strategy in May which shook markets worldwide. Data from Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy indices revealed that four out of the six strategies covered by the ratings agency were up, net of ...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
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