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The debate over whether hedge funds are worthy of the management and performance fee structures they charge will likely live on in perpetuity, but a recent in-the-flesh pow-wow on the topic has raised some interesting angles on whether hedge funds are worth the price.
At the very least, NASCAR and Formula One share two things in common with the alternative asset management industry...
Alexander Ineichen, the Jon Stewart of the alternative investment industry, once again uses humor to tell the truth.
The woods are less thick, and there is more light coming through, but hedge fund managers are still leery about whether the industry has seen the worst.
Like the ubiquitous volcanic ash cloud story, the hedge fund fee story kind of floats around for a while, then reemerges without warning to steal the headlines.
UCITS-structured hedge funds continue to be the trend du jour for 2010, but the jury is still out on whether they are the best route to delivering liquidity, transparency and compliance.
Note from the editor: To avoid the ash cloud in Europe, I have been trying to re-route from Hong Kong to Sao Paulo via Johannesburg. Alas, no such luck. But in lieu of my hoped-for African stop-over, AllAboutAlpha.com Editorial Board member Ranjan Bhaduri and his colleague Bob Doyle tell me what I'll be missing. (Frankfurt, I am now told, isn't such a half-ash place after all.)
Alternative investments are back in favor with European pension funds, according to a new study by Mercer. But a Montague-Capulet-style feud could potentially keep the star-crossed lovers apart.
A new paper tries to make an "extension" of the so-called "Kat-Palaro" model of hedge fund replication. According to its authors, it would have worked way better in 2008 (at least for replicating a CTA index).
A new report from consultancy Bain & Co., reminds us that private equity is notoriously cyclical. The question now is "What new direction will the industry take this time around?"
A new survey suggests institutional investors are once again putting money into hedge funds, though not necessarily where or how one might expect.
Harry Markopolos, the now-famous Madoff whistleblower, has put in words his story of how (and why exactly) no one listened to his repeated calls that Bernard Madoff was a giant fraud.
A study of seven hedge fund strategies concludes that there is an uncomfortably high level of "consistency" among their returns. So much for non-correlation...
A study shows that prior to 2009, hedge funds with fund-of-funds clients seemed to outperform the rest of the hedge fund universe. But last year's dismal performance of the funds of funds indices shows this isn't always the case.
What can you do if you don't have any information on a hedge fund manager's regulatory record? Turns out you can divine a lot by looking for "performance flags."
