So you want to be a fund manager, sit on a pile of money, move it from here to there and from there to here. Wear a suit everyday to work, a silk tie and maybe have one of those heavy Swiss watches on your wrist. Sounds nice, right? Well I have good news for you.…
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In the past I had always been impressed with Steve Cohen, it seemed that he along with Jim Simons were among the tiny handful of hedge fund managers who deserved their wealth. Cohen appeared to actually generate alpha – that is a return well above his benchmarks. Now the image has lost some of its…
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One of the best ways to find out what an industry thinks of both itself and its clients is to look at how the industry communicates to itself. I came across this piece by Hedge Co an online news source for hedge funds. the title of the piece – How to Get Rich By Starting…
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There are two things that I regard as permanent fixtures of trading – drawdowns and the need for resilience. People come to trading all bright and enthusiastic with the belief that their equity will resemble a lunar launch – it will go straight up and never come down. When this magical state of affairs does…
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This short doco is part of an ongoing series that on the strength of the first episode appears to be well worth subscribing to. My favourite bit – Typical of the reports produced on this subject is this one by the Pensions Institute, based at Cass Business School in London. Researchers examined…
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I know I bang on about this constantly but WTF? The majority of hedge fund managers polled by Preqin saw their assets increase in H1 2014, thanks in part to allocations from high-net-worth individuals, as industry assets hit $2.9 trillion. A full 64% of the 100 hedge fund managers polled by the hedge fund…
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There is something in the rationale of people choosing hedge funds as a vehicle that I am not getting. The sales pitch must be amazingly slick or people are still captive to the false narrative that hedge funds are enrichment vehicles for someone other than the manager. Investors poured $70.9 billion into hedge funds in…
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