A Renaissance For The Hedge Fund Industry
Thursday, 04 June 2009 | 6:22 pm
The month of June is replete with hedge fund conferences. Conferences earlier this year were either poorly attended, or else investors attended them for the free breakfast or lunch, a chance to commiserate with fellow sufferers of the global financial crisis/hedge fund witch hunt. What a difference a couple of months of rising markets make. A
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Hedge Fund Strategy Performance April 2009
Thursday, 04 June 2009 | 1:54 pm
As investors agonized over whether markets were in a bear of bull rally, money continued to be made by hedge funds. Let’s look at the 1 month numbers. Equity long short returned a strong 5.74% on the back of rising equity markets. They captured roughly half of the upside in equity markets. That’s not the
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To chase or not to chase?
Thursday, 04 June 2009 | 8:20 am
You’re performance is lagging the market. Maybe you are only up single digits or mid teens, ytd. The (MSCI Asia-ex Japan) market is +35%.
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Convertible Bond Arbitrage 2009 and Beyond
Thursday, 28 May 2009 | 8:38 am
Convertible arbitrage has been one of the best performing hedge fund strategies year to date in 2009, up 17.9% while the HFRI general index has gained 4%. Recall, however, that convertible bond arbitrage was one of the worst performing strategies in 2008 losing 33% while the HFRI general index lost 19%.
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Convertible Bond Arbitrage 2009 and Beyond
Thursday, 28 May 2009 | 8:36 am
Convertible arbitrage has been one of the best performing hedge fund strategies year to date in 2009, up 17.9% while the HFRI general index has gained 4%. Recall, however, that convertible bond arbitrage was one of the worst performing strategies in 2008 losing 33% while the HFRI general index lost 19%. The losses came from
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