Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Hedge Funds, Deferrals, and Taxes
By Staff WriterInvestment advisors who manage--and recommend--hedge funds need to understand the compensation arrangements of those funds. Hedge fund investment advisors routinely defer a portion of their...
October 17, 2003
Janus Internal Inquiry Finds Market Timing, StressNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)?Janus Capital identified special deals with 12 clients that resulted in frequent trades in five Janus mutual funds despite the company?s policy to...
October 17, 2003
Event-Driven Funds Shine in September, YearNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Hedge funds returned 0.49% in September and were up 7.38% year-to-date through that period, according to the Standard & Poor's Hedge Fund Index. The...
October 17, 2003
Alternative Approaches to Calculating Value-at-RisNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)? Fund blowups slant hedge fund performance measures, causing ?fat tails? in the distribution of returns. Methods that take account of this issue...
October 01, 2003
Fund of Funds or Investable Indexes?A recent analysis by Morgan Stanley researchers revealed that hedge funds as a group have produced relatively constant (positive) alpha returns for the past 13...
October 01, 2003
About The ManagerBEN INKER Ben Inker is the chief investment officer of quantitative developed equities and director of asset allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co....
September 30, 2003
Survey: Number Of U.S. Millionaire Households ReboundsNU Online News Service, Sept. 30, 2003, 12:524 p.m. EDT -- The number of U.S. households with more than $1 million in investable assets ...
September 30, 2003
Fund of Funds or Investable Indexes?A recent analysis by Morgan Stanley researchers revealed that hedge funds as a group have produced relatively constant (positive) alpha returns for the past 13 years, but this performance has varied significantly across strategies, and individual managers did not consistently generate such returns.