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Aaron Wormus is the managing director of HedgeCo Networks, and part-time financial and technology blogger for Wormus.com.
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Alex Akesson is the author of Hedgefunds-Weblog.com, providing breaking news and interviews for the hedge fund industry.
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Peter J. de Marigny is Portfolio Manager of DITMo® Strategies, an Equity Hedge, Aggressive-Income Objective, Buy/Write Portfolio for an Aggressive-Income Objective used as an Enhanced Cash investment vehicle. Pj is also Head of Risk Alternative Strategies for Newport Beach, CA advisor Renovatio Asset Management. » View Peter J. de Marigny
Ryan Conner is Principal at HedgeCo Securities. As an experienced industry veteran, Ryan Conner offers his opinions on the hedge fund industry and hedge fund strategies.
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Rashida Fleet is involved with consulting and working with managers during the fund launch phase. Her work includes; interviewing managers, collecting information for the HedgeCo database and contributing to the HedgeCo News feed.
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Tim Seymour is co-founder and managing partner of Red Star Asset Management, as well as Chief Operating Officer of the $116 million Red Star Double Alpha Fund.
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Richard Heller Richard Heller is a partner at the New York City law firm of Thompson Hine LLP. His experience is in the formation of private offerings for hedge funds as well as the formation of registered broker-dealers and RIAs.
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Bret Rosenthal Principal of RCM, LLC, and founding partner of the Fortune's Favor Family of Funds.
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Cameron Hight, CFA, is an investment industry veteran with experience from both buy and sell-side firms, including CIBC, DLJ, Lehman Brothers and Afton Capital. He is currently the Founder and President of Alpha Theory™, a Portfolio Management Platform designed to give fundamental money managers the ability to create their own repeatable discipline to organize the complex process of portfolio management.
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    Top 5 Hedge Fund Website Rankings: A Quantitative look

    Posted By Aaron Wormus, September 15th, 2009 : Permalink

    There are a lot of factors that come into play when trying to determine what group of websites get the most traffic. Many people have used the “Reach” statistic from Alexa.com to determine how much traffic that a website receives.

    top 5 hedge fund website rankingsThe inherent problem with Alexa is that it estimates the traffic based on the number of people who use the Alexa Toolbar (which is flagged as spyware by most antivirus programs). These estimations give a general idea of how much traffic a site gets, but because of the flawed methodology, Alexa can easily be gamed to show more traffic than a site actually gets. For more information about the inherently problems with Alexa rankings read this creative blog entry titled “20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank“.

    Quantcast: A Quantitative Alternative

    Quantcast is an alternative which uses far more efficient technology to get direct information about the site traffic as well as the user base of the site. This traffic is not estimated, but gathered directly from your site. This technology makes Quantcast a far better technology to use for comparing site traffic. For a detailed look at how Quantcast works read this article from their website.

    Quantcast.com Top 5 Hedge Fund Websites

    Based on data from Quantcast, I’ve created the list of the top 5 hedge fund database websites – the lower the number the more traffic.

    1. HedgeFund.net (65,751)
    2. HedgeCo.net (74,883)
    3. BarclayHedge.com (269,328)
    4. CogentHedge.com ( 1,232,726)
    5. HedgeWorld.com (1,543,837)

    There are many types of traffic which quantcast will not catch, but it is by far the most accurate of all third-party online website traffic tracking services.

    Compete.com tells a different story & puts HedgeCo.Net as #1

    Showing that not all third party web site traffic trackers are created equal, I ran the top 3 contesters HedgeFund.net, HedgeCo.net and BarclayHedge through compete.com yet another third party traffic tracker.

    As you can clearly see from this graph, Compete.com is estimating that HedgeCo.net has over 3 times as many Unique visitors as HedgeFund.net and BarclayHedge.com

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