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The Eurekahedge April 2018 report says that hedge funds were down in the first quarter of the year (-0.13%). This is the industry’s worst performance since Q1 2016.The steepest performance-based...
The path to higher rates has not been a smooth one, but interest rates in the United States are now higher than they have been since the global financial crisis and they may well become higher than...
The U.S. is withdrawing from a multilateral agreement with Iran that was aimed at dissuading the Iranian regime from further progress toward nuclearization.In the meantime, the U.S. and its allies...
A new paper by J.B. Heaton, forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Transformation, offers a skeptical view of the algorithmic trading of securities, its actuality and its potential.Heaton is a lawyer...
A creation of the mid-1980s, the London Interbank Offered rate (LIBOR) became immensely influential over the three decades that followed. It became a reference rate for both finance and commerce for...
The Deloitte Center for Financial Services has put out a white paper on “Alternative data for investment decisions.”The term “alternative data” as Deloitte uses it refers to...
In 2018, volatility kicked into high gear. So far, there have been 11 days when the S&P 500 has moved at least 1%. Investors may not like the return of volatility, but it can strengthen the...
Deutsche Bank AG (DE:DBKGn) NA O.N. (NYSE:DB) recently released its Alternative Investment Survey, the 16th annual. This year the questionnaires received replies from 436 global hedge fund investors,...
As the 2018 calendar turned to February, the long-anticipated volatility came back with a vengeance, but why were so many, so surprised? As long-term investors, I point out what might be the obvious....
KPMG International and CREATE-Research have jointly prepared a report about the digitization imperative for alternative investment management.The report includes within that term both hedge funds and...