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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Christopher Holt submits: A few weeks ago we wondered if reports of the death of the “hedge fund model” were true or whether hedge funds had just been knocked unconscious for a while. Apparently we weren’t the only ones curious about the hedge fund afterlife. On Halloween, of all days, researchers in the US and Germany (re-)released a study on the average returns of “dead” hedge funds....
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Christopher Holt submits: It’s easy to assume that hedge funds are totally obsessed with secrecy. In fact, one might be excused for believing that the lack of regulation and resulting lack of transparency is what makes a hedge fund a hedge fund . In its report on the upcoming Congressional hearing involving five of the highest paid hedge fund managers, the magazine “ Congressional Quarterly...
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Seeking Alpha China (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Christopher Holt submits: Some of the world’s largest pensions, endowments and hedge funds met in Boston yesterday to discuss the future of the “absolute return” industry. Joining them were leading academics such as Stanford’s Myron Scholes and Wharton’s Sandy Grossman, hedge fund managers such as Michael Huttman, the Chairman of Millennium Global Asset Management, one of the world’s...
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Seeking Alpha China (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Christopher Holt submits: This bad… The following series of scatter plots are based on data from Hedge Fund Research. As you can see, the urban legend that hedge funds “ deliver absolute returns in good times and bad ” was clearly never supported by the historical evidence. The following chart stacks the broadest index available, the HFRI Fund-Weighted Composite , against the monthly...
