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Why Do Hedge Funds Continue to Under Perform?

July 11, 2016

This is a top-of-mind question for institutional investors and the answers are as varied as the hedge fund industry. Obviously, the answers offered can’t all be accurate. Furthermore, answers will necessarily differ from one fund strategy to another. Morgan Stanley conducted a survey at a recent conference of long/short fundamental equity hedge funds. Morgan Stanley’s […]

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Hedge Funds Face-Off with the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

May 31, 2016

Who are these four horsemen? Pitiful performance, available alternatives, reduced fees, and impatient investors. Abysmal hedge fund performance has been the norm for the past five years. Hedge Fund Research reported the global hedge fund composite to be down almost 1.2 percent when averaged over the past five years. Contrast this with the S&P 500, which is up […]

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Big Investor Says Nine Out of 10 Hedge Fund Managers Are Overpaid

September 22, 2014

With most hedge funds substantially underperforming the major stock market indices year after year since the 2008 financial crisis, it is only natural for hedge fund investors to expect some concession on the fees they pay to hedge funds. However, despite reports of some hedge funds offering to lower asset management fees, it appears that […]

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Value Investing Hedge Fund Rinehart Capital Shuts Down

September 8, 2014

Nashville-based hedge fund Rinehart Capital Partners, which specializes in value investing, is closing its operations, lamenting that the current market does not reward funds that employ value investing as a strategy. The seven year old fund was funded, in part, by hedge fund veteran Lee Ainslie who himself is a specialist value investor and who […]

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Hedge Fund Exposure Cut at Some Pension Funds

August 25, 2014

Patience is wearing thin among some large public pension funds with regard to their hedge fund investment returns. Years of weak returns combined with high investment fees have forced a few prominent pension funds to consider reducing allocation to hedge funds. Among the pension funds planning cuts in hedge fund allocation include the largest US […]

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US Hedge Funds Force Argentina to Default on Its Sovereign Debt

August 11, 2014

The extraordinary influence hedge funds can sometimes have on markets was on full display recently when a small number of hedge funds and some individual investors together forced the sovereign South American country Argentina, with a population of almost 42 million people, to default on its debt commitments. The group led by US hedge fund […]

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Many UK Hedge Funds Setting Up US Operations

July 28, 2014

Sensing a favorable environment for hedge funds among US institutional investors, a number of UK-based hedge funds are setting up operations in the US to grab a slice of the growing institutional money moving into hedge funds. Well known UK funds such as Winton Capital, Odey Asset Management and Cheyne Capital are among a large […]

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