Alpha “Makes the (Blog) Rounds”
Nov 29th, 2006 | Filed under: CAPM / Alpha TheoryMuch like a Hollywood movie star “making the rounds” to various talk shows to promote their latest movie, Alpha seems to have been promoting itself at some high profile blogs this week. Could it be related to Alpha’s upcoming thriller “Why is Everyone Trying to Kill Me?”
Going Private, The Sardonic Memoirs of a Private Equity Professional discusses “compensating alpha“, a topic very close to our hearts:
“There are any number of avenues of attack open to critics of hedge funds nowadays. Among the more recently fashionable is the accusation that hedge funds have fees out of proportion to their risks. Or, more commonly, an unsophisticated barb that seems to resonate much more sharply with the public even if it avoids the question of risk-adjusted returns, that hedge fund managers simply charge too much.”
Going Private refers to The Economist’s “Send in the Clones” and the New York Times coverage of Lisa Rapuano and concludes (quite rightly, we believe) that:
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