Massachusetts Goes the Direct Route with Hedge Funds

October 17, 2011

The state of Massachusetts has decided to make direct investments with 11 of the world’s biggest and best-known hedge fund managers, rather than going the fund-of-funds route. Trustees for the state’s $46 billion pension fund have voted to allocate $280 million in this new group of investments according to Reuters. The state’s treasurer says the [...]

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Top 10 Hedge Funds in America

October 10, 2011

Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates headed the list of the top 10 hedge fund rankings in America according to a recent survey released by Absolute Return + Alpha Magazine. Dalio founded Bridgewater in his Manhattan apartment when he was in his early 20s, says Business Insider. Since then, the firm has grown to occupy a 22-acre wooded [...]

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Size of Hedge Funds Impacting Performance

October 3, 2011

Smaller hedge funds have been outperforming mid-size and larger funds, and younger funds have been outdistancing older ones, according to recent research from PerTrac, a leading hedge fund analytics firm. Their most recent report, “Impact of Fund Size and Age on Hedge Fund Performance,” was released this past week. It revealed that funds with less [...]

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Why Hedge Funds of Funds Need to Step Up Their Marketing

September 26, 2011

Maybe it’s a sign of increased investor sophistication. Maybe it’s a sign that funds of funds are not doing a good enough job marketing their value proposition. Either way, the big institutional investors that are driving growth in hedge fund assets these days are shying away from funds of funds, and going the direct route instead. [...]

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Hedge Fund Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Checklist

September 22, 2011

Hedge funds have known for some time the importance of having an effective disaster recovery solution in place. Recent regulations increasingly enforce this as a key principle for business operations. For any system to be effective, however, there are a number of factors which need to be considered prior to implementation. The following disaster recovery [...]

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Black Swan Hedge Funds Grow in Popularity

September 19, 2011

Hedge fund strategies designed to protect investors against unpredictable risks, so-called “Black Swans,” are soaring in popularity, especially as Europe’s debt woes intensify. Hedging against unforeseen events was popularized in the 1980s by traders such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who wrote a book about it in 2007 entitled “The Black Swan.”  The term refers to [...]

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Disaster Recovery Considerations for Hedge Funds

September 15, 2011

For many firms, hedge fund disaster recovery remains an Achilles’ heel – an expensive and seemingly distracting proposition. But planning for potential disruptions and taking the right steps to develop a comprehensive, customized IT disaster recovery plan will allow your firm to be fully prepared for unexpected events. What factors should you take into consideration [...]

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Using Scarcity to Market Hedge Funds

September 12, 2011

Most hedge fund managers are eager to market their funds and grow assets overall. After all, many charge a management fee of 2 percent on total assets brought into the firm. That’s why large hedge funds like Paulson & Company, Millennium Management and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group were only too happy to cash in on [...]

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Difference Between Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery

September 8, 2011

Business continuity planning. Disaster recovery. BCP. DR. You know the terms. You know investors are looking for them. But do you know what the real differences are between them? Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery have the same goal: to implement procedures that will enable a business to recover in the event of a disaster [...]

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This Hedge Fund Strategy is Grabbing More Attention

September 5, 2011

It’s one of the least promoted hedge fund strategies. Yet, some 25 percent of hedge fund managers may now be using it.  It helps hedge fund managers diversify and move further afield from correlations to mainstream indices, and reduce overall portfolio risk. So what is this mysterious strategy? It’s called event-driven, and it targets financial events [...]

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