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Sovereign Wealth Funds are some of the biggest behemoths around. So why would they ever think they could move around undetected?
A recent survey of hedge fund managers and investors indicates a surge of optimism for 2011. The question is whether they need to look both ways before crossing the seemingly one-way street to a positive year.
One of the world's largest institutional investors in private equity funds recently invited academics to study it's decades' worth of secret fund data. What those researchers found might surprise you.
It's that time of year when soothsayers say their sooths about the upcoming year. So what are they saying about alternative investments in 2011?
Hedge funds are apparently just as entitled to rights of passage as anyone else, according to a recent survey of institutional investors, who collectively are poised to give them a second chance.
Maybe it's about time we dispense with the antiquated notion that "hedge fund replication" is all about actually "replicating" anything.
The ubiquitous Sharpe ratio ignores those pesky "higher moments." But evidently, that's not all it lacks.
Hedge fund indexes are often said to contain inherent biases - biases not shared by their investable counterparts. Now, new research sheds light on one source of the divergence between these two types of indexes.
Success breeds success – and expectations of continued success. Except in private equity, where success bodes reversion to the mean, a recent study on performance persistence argues.
Without liquid markets, private equity values are nearly always marked to model. But that may be changing...
Hedge fund crusader Phil Goldstein is back in court appealing a verdict that he says is unconstitutional. But this time around, the opinions of a small group of journalists, academics and students could have a profound and lasting impact on the way hedge funds communicate with the outside world.
Hedge funds are getting branded as more conservative than they used to be, thanks to the '08 meltdown, but at least one is willing "2 t8k a gambl" on a new kind of strategy.
Thought commodities were going to be man's best friend when inflation strikes? You might want to read this...
Gone are the days when figuring the crowd affected the pricing and spreads along various parts of the credit market structure. According to a recent report by Standard & Poor's, hedge fund traders and other market participants make measuring credit risk a lot more difficult than it used to be.
A transnational study of mutual funds sheds light on one of the secrets of hedge funds' overall success.
