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ETFs and Hedge Funds: At What Price Performance?
With the final numbers for the second quarter of 2015 now available, the research firm ETFGI today brought some long-anticipated news: the size of the exchange traded funds market has finally exceeded that of its older, more well-to-do cousins. It may have taken a little longer than we expected, but ETFs are now a bigger…
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Alibaba, Hedge Funds and Transparency
Alibaba appears to have seized the 2014 prize for the biggest IPO price jump – from $68 to $93 on the first trade – as well as driving more speculation about its possible membership in the S&P 500 than anything since Facebook. Unlike Facebook, Alibaba is a Chinese company and is not eligible for membership…
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Average Performance
This morning’s Wall Street Journal advised us that the performance of many large institutional investors has lagged that of the equity market since the beginning of the recovery five years ago. The Journal attributed this performance gap to institutions’ moves into alternative investment categories such as hedge funds and private equity. The explanation may be…
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ETFs poised to overtake Hedge Funds in 2014
If current trends continue, 2014 will herald a significant milestone for the ETF and hedge fund industries, as the total amount of capital invested in the former threatens to overtake the latter. Hedge funds search relentlessly to deliver on a promise of alpha while their privileged investors – supplying notoriously high fees and the tactical…
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A Simple Hedge Strategy
Alternative investments for high net worth investors are like the weather — everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it. In fairness, alternative investments — hedge funds, private equity, and the like — are often hard to access and complicated to explain. But if they can deliver on their promise of uncorrelated…