Equity and credit markets continue to fall. Investors have shifted their allocation into cash and government bonds. Correlations between assets is not 1. In fact, correlations between hedge funds and other asset classes such as equity have fallen from 95% in 2006 / mid 2008 to 70% currently. Moving allocations into a risk free asset

The hedge fund industry has come under a lot of fire in the last 12 months. They have been blamed for falling markets, failing banks, rising costs of credit, bad weather, you name it. But while it is easy to target an industry where a hedge fund manager can earn millions in a year, what

February was another difficult month for hedge funds. If anyone thought 2009 would be an easier year for hedge funds, think again. Hedge funds lost 0.51% in February, compounding January’s 0.09% loss for a year to date loss of 0.60%, according to the HFRI Index. Fund of funds managed a smaller loss of 0.31% which

Hedge funds have had all sorts of bad press. In the past week, just speaking to members of the general public, investors, even hedge fund managers, I was shocked at the level of resentment directed at the industry and in the case of hedge fund managers, even some degree of penitence. How strange.   In

In today’s news there were several items about shortselling, notably that the ASIC (the Aussie regulator) was considering extending the short selling ban, and that short selling was responsible for market weakness in various markets. At a time when public opinion and emotions run high against hedge funds, this is dangerous; because banning short selling is