Posts Tagged ‘ Hedge Fund Strategies ’
Eurekahedge: The Grinch Stole December’s Returns
Jan 22nd, 2019 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, The A.I. Industry, Industry Size & Managers, Equity Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Indexes, Hedge FundsThe Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was down for the month of December 1.31%, and that this brought the total decline of 2018 down to 3.85%, according to the January 2019 report. Part of the reason for the bad December numbers was a broad concern about the yield-curve inversion in USRead More
Eurekahedge: Hedge Funds Failing to Perform in 2018
Nov 25th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, The A.I. Industry, Equity Hedge Funds, Indexes, Hedge Funds, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Macro and Managed Futures Funds, Allocating to A.I.The newest Eurekahedge report says that hedge funds globally are experiencing their worst year since 2008. They are down -2.15% for 2018 to date and in the first 10 months of 2008 they were down a full 9.55%. Other Year-to-Date Numbers Only a minority (roughly 47%) of hedge fund managersRead More
Some Clarity from the Delaware Supreme Court for Activists
Oct 18th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Strategies, The A.I. Industry, Equity Hedge Funds, Regulatory, Regulatory Environment, Hedge Funds, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Legislation/Court rulingsThe Delaware Supreme Court, on Oct. 9, upheld the Chancery Court’s dismissal of a buyout/squeeze-out related lawsuit. In the process, it issued an opinion that indicates that the room for activist investors to use litigation or the threat of litigation to derail controlling shareholder transactions may be quite small, andRead More
Hedge Funds in the Slow-down Phase
Oct 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Strategies, The A.I. Industry, Equity Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Macro and Managed Futures Funds, Relative Value Hedge FundsFidante Partners, part of the Challenger Limited Group, has issued a white paper on the performance of hedge funds of various strategies in the slowdown and recession phases of a business cycle. The report, written by Joachim Klement, Fidente’s head of investment research, posits that the world is now inRead More
Self-Organizing Maps for Selecting Hedge Funds
Oct 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Performance, Analytics & Metrics, Hedge Fund Strategies, The A.I. Industry, Asset allocation, Benchmarking & Performance Attribution, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation Models, Risk Management Strategies & Processes, Allocating to A.I.A new paper by Claus Huber, of Rodex Risk Advisers, looks at machine learning for risk analysis, working especially from the “self-organizing maps” associated with Finnish Professor Teuvo Kohonen. A SOM is a low-dimensional representation of input space (thinking of it as two dimensional makes the “map” analogy intuitive, andRead More
Eurekahedge: Hedge Funds Trailing Behind Last Year’s Performance
Aug 19th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, CTA, The A.I. Industry, Industry Size & Managers, Equity Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Macro and Managed Futures Funds, Relative Value Hedge FundsAccording to Eurekahedge, with the July numbers on hedge fund performance now available, 8.5% of hedge fund managers have posted double-digit gains in 2018 to date. Most of that gain is focused on those with a long/short equities mandate. That number is quite low. Eurekahedge contrasts it with the firstRead More
Operating Expenses, Strategies, and Scale
May 15th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Benchmarking & Performance Attribution, Hedge Funds, Structure of the Hedge Funds Industry, Allocating to A.I.Meketa Investment Group has issued a paper on the state of hedge fund operating expenses, the point of which is to offer actual and potential fund investors and their managers alike a benchmarking tool. By definition operating costs are those costs associated with day-to-day operations and the needs of anRead More
DB: Investors Newly Optimistic About Hedge Funds
Feb 22nd, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Performance, Analytics & Metrics, The A.I. Industry, Industry Size & Managers, Institutional Investing, Asset allocation, Benchmarking & Performance Attribution, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation Models, Institutional Asset Management, Fees, Structure of the Hedge Funds Industry, Allocating to A.I.Deustche Bank recently released its Alternative Investment Survey, the 16th annual. This year the questionnaires received replies from 436 global hedge fund investors, with assets under management of $2.1 trillion, who shared their insights, sentiments, and allocation plans. Glenn Bunn, co-head of Prime Finance at DB, said in a statementRead More
Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends for 2018
Jan 3rd, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Investing, Hedge Funds, Institutional Asset Management, Structure of the Hedge Funds IndustryBy Don Steinbrugge Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends stemming from our contact with more than two thousand institutional investors and hundreds of hedge fund organizations. The hedge fund industry is dynamic, and participants are best served by anticipating, rather than reacting to, change. Below areRead More