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We conclude our coverage of this "no media" hedge fund conference in Boston with: post-Beijing distress, the "Flying Dutchman" and one half of the "Gilbert and Sullivan" of hedge fund research.
Day two of the Boston hedge fund triathlon featured the Wayne Gretzky of finance, Fed Band-aids, and tips on forest fire prevention.
Day one of the un-named hedge fund conference in Boston came to a conclusion after a marathon involving over 10 hours of Nobel laureates, hedge fund managers and mega-pensions.
Alpha Male provides occasional entertainment to crowds who have come to see Nobel laureates Harry Markowitz and Myron Scholes and other luminaries at this "strictly no media" hedge fund gabfest in Boston.
Switching focus now from Geneva to New York, Alpha Male reports today on Managed Accounts USA, an event bringing together hedge funds, investors and those who participate in the burgeoning business of providing “managed accounts platforms” that some say will give rise to an age of “do-it-yourself funds of hedge funds”. Many of the barbs usually lobbed at hedge funds have [...]
Thomas Schneeweis is an academic. So he views the primary benefits of managed accounts not as operational, but as analytical. He argues that daily and weekly return data (usually only available via a managed account) is superior to the more common monthly data used in the hedge fund industry. Schneeweis tells All About Alpha that monthly data [...]
Heard on the Floor… MSS’s Simon Hookway on Hedge Fund Clones: Clones are themselves single-manager hedge funds. I look forward to following their progress. If they do well over the next three years, I’d definitely be interested in including them in my managed futures/CTA portfolio. (Ed: said with tongue only partly in cheek) University of Toronto’s Felix [...]
