A January Tradition: Investors’ love/hate relationship with hedge funds.
Jan 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication, Retail Investing, Today's Post
Hedge funds: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em, right?
Well, it appears that investors and commentators may actually love them and hate them at the same time. As Wikipedia defines a “love-hate relationship:”
“…a personal relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and enmity. This relationship does not have to be of a romantic nature, and may be instead of a sibling one. It may occur when people have completely lost the intimacy within a loving relationship, yet still retain some passion for, or perhaps some commitment to, each other.”
It seems that every January, there is a proliferation of media stories about how – despite their apparent disdain for hedge funds - investors show a commitment to hedge funds by clamoring to mimic them through either a) hedge fund replication products or b) “hedged” mutual funds. More…
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