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Swiss investors turn to alternatives to find the right balance between passive and active investing – Opalesque Geneva Roundtable
Given the less attractive outlook on most traditional "pure beta" asset classes and investment styles, hedge funds and alternative investments are regaining interest from Swiss investors: pensions, banks, independent asset managers and private clients. Risk premia become increasingly tight, and with that the risk of a correction increases. The need…
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Hilmi Ünver @Goldman Sachs Cap Intro conference in Rome
I was invited to moderate a panel at the Goldman Sachs Cap Intro conference in Rome. The Fast and the Furious panel – Lessons learned from Q1 2016. The panel was comprised of prestigious and longtime well established hedge fund managers; Andrew Billett from Arrowgrass Capital, Colin Lancaster from Balyasny…
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A (deep) contrarian view: Buy the basket of top holdings in US Hedge Funds
BUY THE BASKET OF TOP HOLDINGS IN US HEDGE FUNDS CURRENT SITUATION 2016 has been a very tough year for active managers, especially in the equity US market (both hedge funds and long only funds). From 31-Dec-15 to 30-April-16, the SP500 NTR has gained 1.73% whereas the Tremont Long-Short Index…
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Perception vs. Reality: Hedge Funds – Bad results, but neutral on a risk-adjusted basis.
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, wrote a best-selling book entitled “Thinking, Fast and Slow”. The central thesis of the book is that human beings have two modes of thought: System 1: Fast, instinctive and emotional; System 2: Slow, deliberative and logical. We can say that…
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How hedge funds can help: 10 years of H-Worldwide Multi Strategy
The news that Calpers in the States and PFZW in Europe were pulling out of hedge funds did not come too much as a surprise considering how their portfolios fared. There were clearly specific issues regarding these two investors but as large allocators and opinion leaders in the market, there…
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Asian hedge funds have held their ground
Investing in Asia has always been fraught with dangers but also opportunities. For anyone following the markets of late, it’s been impossible not to formulate an opinion on China: everything from the meltdown in the A share market, to the slowdown of the economy, to the potential bubble in credit…
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2015, a challenging year for hedge fund strategies?
2015 was challenging year for most asset classes. The InvestHedge Composite, which tracks the median performance of the funds of hedge funds that report to the InvestHedge database, was up by a minimal 0.3% - one of the lowest returns since InvestHedge began tracking FoHF performance in 1998. European markets…
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