Hedge fund industry trends

Jan 25th, 2016 | Filed under: Alternative Mutual Funds, Fees, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Liquid Alternative Investiments, Liquid Alts, Newly Added, Other Topics in A.I., Retail Investing, Structure of the Hedge Funds Industry

By Andrew Beer New products are sold on a story. For alternative multi-manager mutual funds – most of which have launched since 2012 – the pitch goes something like this: we can find top tier hedge fund managers to run various alternative investment strategies – equity long/short, relative value, macro, Read More

Jul 5th, 2015 | Filed under: Emerging markets, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, Infrastructure, Technology

PwC offers a glimpse of a 'day in the life' of a typical compliance analyst in 2015 and again in 2020. As these authors tell it, the day is filled with data, darkness, and drudgery at present, but it will be airy, alliterative, and analytical in another five years. Read More

May 28th, 2015 | Filed under: Alpha Hunters, Alpha Seekers, Alpha Strategies, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, Institutional Investing, Real Estate

For Faille, the stand-out essay in this collection of case studies, from CNBC's Maneet Ahuja, concerns Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner, of the Avenue Capital Group. As Myron Scholes says in his afterword to this volume, Lasry and Gardner take returns from those whose demand for liquidity makes them willing to give them up. Read More

Mar 19th, 2015 | Filed under: Alternative Mutual Funds, Asset allocation, Fees, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, Institutional Investing, Liability Driven Investing, Regulatory

Surveys suggest that certain conspicuous ongoing trends will continue. For example, the classic 20 + 2 fee structure will continue to crumble, replaced by "customized" structures. A full 91% of the small hedge fund managers who filled out a survey agreed with this. A mere 76% of large hedge fund managers did likewise. Read More

Jun 24th, 2013 | Filed under: Commodities, CTA, Hedge Fund Industry Trends

To encourage further exchange and understanding, I went back to Mr. Rice, after reading a comment from our reader, and asked him to expand on managed funds and their noncorrelation with traditional (largely equity) investment strategies. Tags, Agriculture, Commodities, Derivatives