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Short Term Trading Using Hedge Fund Data To Estimate Capacity Constraints
Short Term Trading is one of the elusive trading strategies within Managed Futures. Often managers have been able to deliver uncorrelated historical returns.
On The Unintended Consequences Of AI And Automation
For the better part of the last year, I’ve been asking how AI is being applied in the finance industry. What can we do now with this powerful tool, and how is it improving existing processes? Thus far, the answers have been fairly limited.
Alternative Investments During 2023: Money Growing On Trees
2023 was the year of the niche strategies. While “mainstream alternatives” like private equity and real estate had a hard time and delivered lackluster returns at best, niche strategies like ILS and forestry delivered outstanding returns.
Reflections From The Middle Seat: An Allocators Journey To Private Capital Advisory
I left a limited partner seat in April 2022 to join the Private Capital Advisory team at Raymond James and have received many questions weekly since from both LPs and General Partners.
Time Continues To Be On TikTok’s Side
TikTok is making the most of the clock. A new bill introduced in U.S. Congress is seeking to ban the popular social media app but offers up similar solutions to the problem that vexed lawmakers and two presidents for four years.
Revolutionizing Alternative Investment Reporting: It’s Time To Update Legacy Practices
In recent years, investors have shown a interest in alternative investments, driven by their desire to attain substantial returns with reduced exposure to market risk and the high volatility typically associated with publicly traded stocks
Surveying The Ecosystem Enabling Private Capital Market Success: A Spotlight On Advances In ‘Alternative’ Protein
This brief explores the burgeoning ecosystem that has propelled the rapid increase in the availability and consumption of Alternative Protein.
Are We Baking Portfolios With Bad Ingredients?
It’s been said that baking is like chemistry for hungry people. Meaning, it’s complicated. Just one mistake in the recipe or measurement of your ingredients and your bread can wind up with no bread-like qualities at all. Investing can be the same
What Is The Volatility Risk Premium?
Protective hedges against equity market volatility were more effective in 2020 than in 2022. Here, we explain the role of the volatility risk premium.
Portfolio Protection And Overlays: Time For A Rethink?
Following the considerable market losses endured in 2022, investors are taking the opportunity to weigh their own results and reassess resilience
Evolution Of Investment Preferences And Implications
Investment preferences and choices often evolve over time based on several factors, including nature of investment products, technology in delivery, socio-economic status of society, and performance of investment products, to name a few.
Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends For 2024
This article puts forth the top predictions for the most significant trends in the hedge fund industry for 2024
The Top-3 Reasons You Should Blow Up Your Invesment Committee
Here are the Top-3 reasons why investment committees are not a good use of time and resources, likely lowers returns and negatively impacts governance. This piece is short-and-to-the-point hoping more people will read it.
Risk Parity Not Performing? Blame The Weather
Many high-profile funds with set risk targets exhibit levels of volatility last seen only during the Global Financial Crisis. This and the disparity of results between funds in the category is the subject of this post.
A Credit Hedge You Get Paid To Hold? Understanding Positive Return Expectations For Quality-Junk
A foundational premise of the Capital Asset Pricing Model is that all investor portfolios should hold the tangency portfolio levered up or levered down to suit their risk preferences.
What Advisors Need To Know About Cryptocurrencies
You have all heard about bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose mysterious creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, has been nominated for a Nobel Prize – even though his, her, or their true identity remains stubbornly unknown.
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