Hedge Funds
The latest hedge funds news to help advisors understand how these alternative investments can help boost portfolio returns and reduce risk.
January 24, 2013
FitchRatings: Inflows of money market funds hit $2.7 trillion in fourth quarterTax-exempt funds saw a 5.7 percent gain, prime funds (institutional and retail) increased 3.2 percent.
January 21, 2013
Managed Futures: Strategy or Asset Class?My answer to investment professionals, who probably won't be satisfied, is that managed futures are both.
January 14, 2013
Hedge Fund Leverage Reaches 2004 LevelsMore leverage means more potential losses should stocks decline, a major contributor to the depth and length of the economic crisis beginning in 2008.
January 08, 2013
Eight Hedge Fund Trends in 2013Agecroft Partners predicts that the hedge fund industry will set a record for assets this year based on several emerging trends identified through its contact with more than 2,000 institutional investors and 300 hedge fund organizations during 2012.
December 26, 2012
Madoff Letter: Insider Trading Has Gone on ‘Forever’The man behind the largest financial con of all time is decrying what he calls a lack of transparency in the financial markets.
December 19, 2012
New York pensions to add hedge funds to reduce volatilityThree of New York Citys five public pensions intend to add as many as 15 hedge funds for direct allocations in an effort to reduce equity volatility.
December 19, 2012
New York pensions to add hedge funds to reduce volatilityThree of New York Citys five public pensions intend to add as many as 15 hedge funds for direct allocations in an effort to reduce equity volatility.
November 26, 2012
Hedge Funds Badly Beaten by S&P 500 PerformanceLow cost indexing might have been vindicated in the starkest way possible.
November 20, 2012
U.S. Charges SAC Capital Unit in $276 Million Insider Trading SchemeThe SEC, in its largest insider trading case ever, and the Department of Justice charged hedge fund advisory firm CR Intrinsic Investors, which is a unit of SAC Capital, its former portfolio manager and a medical consultant with insider trading.
November 02, 2012
Top Portfolio Products: Franklin Templeton Takes Stake in K2 Fund of Hedge FundsThis week in portfolio product announcements, Franklin Templeton completed a majority stake acquisition in K2 Advisors, MFS added to its target date fund lineup and more.