Jeremy Grantham of GMO in a recent letter writes about a number of interesting points: Bernanke missing the housing bubble and its bursting, the potentially disastrous implications interactions between lower house prices and new financial instruments (MBS, CDOs), and international distribution of the associated risk. Other Teflon Men: Larry Summers, encouraging deregulation and lighter regulation

Hedge Fund Performance 2009 09       Hedge funds as represented by the HFRI returned 17.01% year to date. In the same time period, the MSCI World returned 38.08% YTD. Global Bonds measured by the Barclays Global Bond Index (the old Lehman Agg) gained 8.14%, and the CRB Index (Commodities) gained 17.71%. Adding more

Hedge Fund Leverage. Too much or too little? Every time there is a hedge fund crisis the subject of leverage comes up. But how does one define leverage in a hedge fund? Is it the same definition you would use for a proprietary trading desk being allocated risk?

Thinking about UCITS from the investment manager’s perspective:   Those of us faced with the reality of European hedge fund regulation will be familiar with UCITS III. You get points for knowing what UCITS actually means: Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, quite meaningless and proof positive of its European provenance. In 2008, hedge