Note Are markets becoming more unstable?
Readers of financial news may believe that ‘market corrections’, or ‘shocks’, or ‘five-sigma events’ are more common than they used to be. Winton Capital Management look at the historical data for a number of financial markets and find that there is no evidence for increasing (...)
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Regulation Regulatory prospects: 2012 and beyond
2009 was a year of intense reflection on the functioning of the financial sector. There followed an intense regulatory activity in 2010, unfortunately with few formal adoptions of regulations. 2011 marked the surge of the will to succeed with provisional schedules. Where do (...)
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People Moves Jim Simons, the « Michael Jordan » of finance retires
Jim Simons has officially announced his retirement, leaving the reins of "Medallion Fund" - without doubt one of the greatest performing management funds in history - in the hands of his two co-successors, Peter Brown and Robert (...)
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Note UCITS hedge funds underperform their non-UCITS rivals, shows new study
UCITS hedge funds are typically more volatile and underperform their non-UCITS hedge fund rivals, a new comprehensive comparative study by the EDHEC-Risk Institute has found...
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Regulation Regulatory outlook: 2011 and beyond
It is well documented that over the past two years the European and US Authorties have made numerous efforts to strengthen the regulatory and supervisory framework that apply to financial activities.
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News Institutional investor appetite is back for quant funds
The recent CTA performances encourage institutional investors to more closely monitor this type of hedge fund. Thus, according to Preqin, 52% of them wish to increase their exposure to this type of alternative strategy this year (vs 14% last (...)
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Innovation EXQIM announces the launch of Exqim Blue Fund
Created by two former senior executive managers of SGAM AI, Exqim launches Exqim Blue Fund, a multi-asset fund whose investment process is based on quantitative strategies and allocation.
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Pedagogy What is Long/Short Equity ?
Hedge funds apply a vast array of investment strategies which can be more or less complex. In this article, we shall focus on the Long / Short strategy…
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Strategy Agricultural land rush of investment funds!
After launching products indexed to changes in prices of agricultural products, many banks and investment funds are turning now to the land acquisition...
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News Alternative investors hunt yield in post crisis Europe under review at Debtwire’s European Forum
Debtwire hosts its seventh European forum at the Dorchester in London today. Senior bankers, lawyers, investors, financial sponsors, corporate finance and debt advisory specialists will provide their insight on the current state of the debt market, spanning from primary (...)
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Note Hedge funds: The CTAs drift
Since mid-2011, CTAs cumulative loss is between -10.6% (HFRI macro systematic index) and -16.8% (Credit Suisse Managed Futures Index). For the first quarter of this year, CTAs show a drawdown of about 3% which is expected to increase in April (-0.66% for HFRX CTA index) (...)
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Strategy Re-weighting carry strategies
In a context where monetary conditions are more accommodative and sovereign bond yields are back to low levels, it seems appropriate to re-weight carry strategies such as EM-focused Global Macro and L/S Credit.
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Opinion Combining différent styles for risk premia strategies
According to Ronen Israel, principal at AQR Capital Management, four investment “styles” — Value, Momentum, Carry and Defensive — have emerged as compelling sources of alternative returns, backed by economic theory and decades of data across geographies and asset (...)
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News Sunny Summer for Hedge Funds
The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was up a healthy +0.7% since the beginning of August, with progress in most strategies, supported by the positive performance of risky assets. The Bank of England’s activism and the Brexit timeline getting pushed back contributed toward easing (...)
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Strategy Concentrated long-short investing to achieve absolute return
According to Amit Kumar and Ashish Kochar, US Equity Portfolio Manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investment, investor caution on market outlook places increased focus on generating alpha. Long-short equity portfolios have the potential to generate greater alpha as individual (...)
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