Professor David Hsieh Discusses Hedge Funds at Private Function

Oct 26th, 2006 | Filed under: CAPM / Alpha Theory

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.  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. 

As you may recall, Duke professor David Hsieh caused a stir in the hedge fund community last spring when he suggested that the overall amount of alpha available in the hedge fund industry was only around US$30 billion (posting, original article).  Subsequent commentators have suggested that he may not be far off since $30b represents about 3% of alpha on the $1.1 trillion industry - and that 3% “free lunch” sits adequately well with many academics.

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