http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/ Hedge funds, portable alpha, 130/30 and alpha-centric investing Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:52:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3263 allaboutalpha.com: Welcome to AllAboutAlpha.com Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:11:19 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/#comment-3263 [...] On Wednesday, State Street released the findings from its survey of institutional investors at October’s Global Absolute Return Congress (”Global ARC”) in Boston.  The firm surveyed pensions & endowments that they say were collectively responsible for US$1trillion of assets.  Unlike a similar industry survey conducted by Deutsche Bank in January, this one did not include funds of hedge funds.  As regular readers may recall, we felt that aggregating data from funds of funds along with data from pensions & endowments (”end investors”) may have skewed the results. Â We can see some evidence of this by comparing the State Street and DB studies. [...] [...] On Wednesday, State Street released the findings from its survey of institutional investors at October’s Global Absolute Return Congress (”Global ARC”) in Boston.  The firm surveyed pensions & endowments that they say were collectively responsible for US$1trillion of assets.  Unlike a similar industry survey conducted by Deutsche Bank in January, this one did not include funds of hedge funds.  As regular readers may recall, we felt that aggregating data from funds of funds along with data from pensions & endowments (”end investors”) may have skewed the results. Â We can see some evidence of this by comparing the State Street and DB studies. [...]

]]> http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-59 All About Alpha » Blog Archives » Professor David Hsieh Discusses Hedge Funds at Private Function Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:07:46 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/#comment-59 [...] AllAboutAlpha Exclusive - On Tuesday evening, AllAboutAlpha’s Editor-in-Chief Alpha Male co-moderated a dinner discussion in an un-named US city featuring “The Hsieh” himself. Â Dinner guests included investment leaders from several large pension plans and was hosted by the Canadian Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and portable alpha pioneer, Integra Capital.  [...] [...] AllAboutAlpha Exclusive – On Tuesday evening, AllAboutAlpha’s Editor-in-Chief Alpha Male co-moderated a dinner discussion in an un-named US city featuring “The Hsieh” himself. Â Dinner guests included investment leaders from several large pension plans and was hosted by the Canadian Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and portable alpha pioneer, Integra Capital.  [...]

]]> http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-56 All About Alpha » Blog Archives » Beware the “Roach Motel” Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:52:00 +0000 http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/24/alpha-males-road-trip/#comment-56 [...] Alpha Male’s Road Trip [...] [...] Alpha Male’s Road Trip [...]

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