Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowd to Mitigate Down-side Risk
Over the past thirty years, hedge funds have proven an uncanny ability to avoid significant down-side risk in equities.
The Fees Are Too Damned High for Most Liquid Alts
Liquid alternatives products often offer the allure of returns that could benefit most…
Hedge Funds Stay Defensive As Equities Creep Higher
It’s been a difficult year for the Hedge Fund industry, generating mid single digit returns in an environment of very strong equity performance
Hedge Funds Cautiously Tilt Higher For Longer
The Silicon Valley Bank failure and subsequent deflationary credit crunch market dynamics created significant pain for many hedge funds…
Imperfect Replication Beats Single Manager Selection 9/10 Times
One of the commonly raised concerns about Hedge Fund replication strategies is the tracking…
Hedge Funds, What Have You Done for Me Lately? A Lot.
Hedge Funds are roughly flat in ‘23 while a broad market cap weighted index of US stocks has…
Stocks Need Easy Money to Consistently Outperform Hedge Funds
Stock indexes have outperformed hedge funds by quite a bit this year. As of late May, the NASDAQ is…
Hedge Funds Positioning For A Wide Range Of Possible Outcomes
The current macro environment presents some of the most uncertain circumstances that we have…
A Simple Investment Gameplan
The last year has all of us wrestling with whether our investment gameplan will work in a wide…
A Couple of Tough Weeks For Hedge Funds
Hedge Funds have experienced some of their worst performance ever over the last couple weeks. Our best estimate of March performance has the industry down roughly 3%, with most of that loss being booked in the last week.