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Merger Arbitrage has long been described as short put on the S&P. But the times may be a changin'...
Securities lending in it's old-school, pass-around-the-securities-and-collect-the-fees form is seemingly gone for good. But what form it will take now?
A report by one consulting firm shows that hedge funds certainly don't have a monopoly on complex and confusing fee structures.
Recent reports and anecdotal evidence suggest hedge funds are still throwing money at stocks. The only problem is the majority of the cash is going into shorts.
Leave it to the investment practitioners to come up with, well, "practical" tools...
Who else to blame but hedge funds for going for low-hanging emerging markets fruit and forcing more credit crisis-inspired woes?
You might be surprised at how many of today's hedge fund behemoths began life as a seeding project - as hedge fund seeder Anthony Scaramucci tells AllAboutAlpha's Andrew Saunders.
A recent study questions the validity of alpha calculations based on common hedge fund indices. Others have wondered the same for years, but is this concern really just a red herring?
This month, we bring you Act II of Alexander Ineichen’s “Ineichen Dialogues” (Act I here) In it, his three characters Winnie-the -Bear, George Jones and Ben Put discuss recent developments in the financial world with the kind of clarity your children will surely appreciate (pdf version). By: Alexander Ineichen, CFA, CAIA Once upon a time, not so [...]
Sure, alpha exists and can be obtained. The question, though, in the age of frauds, blowups and misnomers, is: can it be attained legally?
All the news that's fit to eat this Thanksgiving.
If a monkey hitting keys on a typewriter at random can eventually reproduce Shakespeare's works, can an ETF loosely based on a hedge fund strategy eventually replace a hedge fund manager, and the fees he or she charges?
An academic study finds that a hedge fund's source for pricing data can tell you a lot about its propensity to "smooth" returns.
A study by the European Central Bank explores what happens when hedge fund investors and prime brokers want their money back in a hurry.
Still more evidence that hedge fund managers aren't going to climb back above their high water marks for the foreseeable future. The question is how much longer managers will be willing to tough it out.
