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June 06, 2013
Managing money is managing money, but the art is in wrapping it up the way the client wants it and charging accordingly. It is the label that defines how much you can charge for it
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June 06, 2013
Combining manager information flow and advisory fees instead of traditional fees, the specialist consultant has become an easily accessible instant hedge fund ‘Sherpa’ to take away the inherent risk of the expedition to the summit
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June 06, 2013
The uncertainty about what, if any, changes the JOBS Act will bring to hedge fund marketing has increased
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May 09, 2013
Few FoHFs coordinate their activities to achieve cooperation as they view each other as competition
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May 09, 2013
Instead of a large number of institutional FoHFs products, the future seems to point to just more than a handful of consultant/FoHF adviser-driven portfolio types created in cookie-cutter fashion
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April 05, 2013
It is clear that at least half of the FoHF industry is behaving like Hem and Haw, who refused to take action until the cheese was gone
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April 05, 2013
The result is the retaining of funds of hedge funds as ‘advisers’ and paying only management fees in return for a portfolio of the best and brightest hedge fund names
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April 05, 2013
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March 07, 2013
The managers who have set out to ‘make things happen’ have probably given themselves an edge over these past three years
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March 07, 2013
The pursuit of assets in a limited number of hedge funds is going to lead to their obesity...
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March 07, 2013
The snake is a master of transformation and we can expect to shed outmoded ways of being – just as the snake sheds its skin
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March 07, 2013
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March 07, 2013
While there remain a few holdouts, the majority of institutional investors have made the leap to hedge funds
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February 06, 2013
Why is gathering assets proving so hard for some? The US may offer the answer
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February 06, 2013
If inflation is indeed on the horizon and growth is being held hostage, where can real money be had?
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February 06, 2013
Many top managers still are managing most of their own money within their funds, often in the most unconstrained versions of their strategies
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December 05, 2012
‘Like headstands, side crows and peacocks, CTAs are not always appropriate all the time – or indeed, for everyone’
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December 05, 2012
Like Icarus flying too close to the sun, investors have learned a little bit about flying to the giddy heights of alpha possibilities, and how hard, and indeed fatal, coming down can be
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December 05, 2012
The continuous ignorance of various non-investing constituencies towards hedge funds remains mindboggling
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December 05, 2012
It was at GLG that Greg Coffey delivered a stunning series of returns on the firm’s Emerging Markets fund – including nearly 60% in 2006 and over 50% again in 2007
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November 05, 2012
Once an investor has been given the transparency they desire, are they then liable if and when something should go wrong?
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October 10, 2012
It does not actually mean the world will end; but it does mean that change is on the way
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October 10, 2012
It is not surprising that Man sought to diversify through GLG and FRM to try and reduce dependence on structured products related to AHL
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September 06, 2012
The art of hedge fund investing is to realise that it is not a static game
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September 06, 2012
Although the industry may be in tougher times, it has also matured and changed in some ways for the better
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July 03, 2012
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July 03, 2012
It seems activity in the institutional investor sector has picked up again with a number of high profile moves in recent weeks and months
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July 03, 2012
The JP Morgan case demonstrated clearly the continuing huge scale of some of these major prop desks
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