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Hedge fund indexes have been around for as long as there have been hedge funds to index. As the industry evolves, so too the way it is measured must change. The Hedge Fund Barometer intends to change the way we measure hedge fund performance.
Risk Aggregation has been expensive, and prohibitively so for some, whether it’s in-house or out-sourced. That may be about to change, but just as Skype phone calls are not always the best quality, so too some investors will still want to go further than the free solution.
Vikas Shah discusses the "left tail" with Mark Spitznagel, founder and CIO of Universa Investments.
Climate change-focused investment opportunities are increasingly popular among institutions and asset managers. The question is whether they will yield results.
A paper published by he European Central Bank this month argues that purely-financial investors do indeed "destabilize" oil prices by indiscriminately allocating capital to oil futures.
All is forgiven between hedge funds and family offices, which are growing in number and once again looking at hedge funds and other alternative investments. The question is whether hedge funds will end up trampling themselves in the race to sign them up.
In the alpha world, skill often depends on the support of other factors. Some call them pedigree, process and performance, and rank them in that order. There's only one problem: despite the best pedigree, and the best process, performance can suffer tremendously when something unpredictable occurs – a black swan or tail risk.
Preqin's latest report overwhelmingly confirms that transparency is here to stay for hedge fund managers vying for institutional capital.
A new report on the needs of institutional hedge fund investors amounts to a manifesto for reform among the world's hedge fund managers.
Hamlin Lovell reports from The Battle of the Quants 2011.
Carrier pigeons and post roads gave way to telegraph lines, then telephones, then networks of computers. In our own century automation has gone so far that actual human beings on an exchange floor seem destined to share the obsolescence of those pigeons.
There's nothing like a good list of acronyms to confuse even the most immersed hedge fund aficionado. A new report by KPMG and RBC Dexia unintentionally takes the industry's affinity for acronyms up a notch.
Irina Zeltser attended the US Super Returns conference, held recently in Boston, where the future of the general partner business model was up for debate.
Private equity shops are finally smelling opportunity in the U.S. commercial real estate market. The question is whether the roses they smell are as sweet as they think, or if they just plain stink.
A new survey of diamond auctions finds that diamonds are as Sharpe as bonds. Really.
