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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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June 05, 2012
The only M&A deals likely to have any real impact will be those that create $20 billion asset management warehouses
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June 05, 2012
Patience among trustees is waning. Funds of funds seem to be the early casualties, but single manager hedge funds are definitely not immune from scrutiny
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June 05, 2012
Tail-risk strategies are akin to insurance – something that should pay off big-style when there is a major market event
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