Hedge Funds
The latest hedge funds news to help advisors understand how these alternative investments can help boost portfolio returns and reduce risk.
Three Stages of the Future
By Staff WriterOver the next 15 to 20 years, as baby boomers age (the first boomers will reach age 65 in 2011), advisors will see many boomer...
November 14, 2005
How Unique Is Your Strategy?A money manager who claims to make alpha returns is in effect claiming to have a special approach that's very hard to duplicate. Otherwise, why isn't everybody else getting those extra profits? Truth is, much of what hedge funds do can be learned and imitated. Indeed, recently a mutual fund...
November 01, 2005
The Roles of Alpha and BetaYou know what alpha and beta is in investing: Beta is the primary source, and often the exclusive source, of returns in the traditional long-only,...
October 31, 2005
CalPERS' Investment Chief to Join London Pension ManagerSACRAMENTO, Calif. (HedgeWorld.com)--The man behind the largest U.S. pension fund's adoption of "absolute return" strategies is leaving the California Public Employees' Retirement System to make his mark at a leading U.K. pension fund manager. Mark J. P. Anson will succeed Tony Watson as chief executive at Hermes Pensions Management Ltd....
October 18, 2005
Emerging Markets Emerge on Top for SeptemberHedge funds in the CSFB/Tremont index had a good September in general, posting an overall return of 1.63%. For the year, the index is up 5.9%.
October 04, 2005
Hedge Fund Strategies in Mutual FundsRydex funds sport low correlation to traditional investments
October 01, 2005
Portable Alpha InvestingInstitutions seeking better risk-adjusted returns are increasingly employing a portable alpha approach, in some cases using this method to invest with multistrategy hedge fund managers...
September 23, 2005
More Growth for Hedge FundsCombined hedge fund assets--including single-strategy hedge funds and funds of funds--will increase at a compound growth rate of 15% between 2005 and 2008, resulting in overall growth of 75% during this period, according to new research by TowerGroup.