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While browsing through my hedge fund news aggregator this morning, this story on how to set up a hedge fund caught my eye. With their tongue firmly in their cheek, the guardian lists the following steps to hedge fund success. Chose a name Get a brass plaque in the Cayman Islands Set your fees Raise some money Rent an office […]
Big news in the Hedge Fund world this weekend when unofficial reports filtered out of the New York Post that one of the original Hedge Fund portals plans to close its doors on August the 15th. Hedgeworld has been active since the late 1990s and has been a great source of reference both for Hedge Fund news and Fund information […]
A quick update on my last post on the sharpe ratio; The other day I bumped into this page that lists Scholarly Articles on the Sharpe Ratio. Good reading 🙂 http://www.hedgefund-index.com/s_sharpe.asp Adjusting for risk: An improved Sharpe ratio An Algorithm for Trading and Portfolio Management Using Q-learning and Sharpe Ratio… Are independent risks substitutes according to the Generalized Sharpe Ratio? […]
I am a technologist who has worked in the hedge fund industry since the end of 2004. Each day I come into contact with quickly advancing technology as well as interesting new ways that hedge funds are using technology in their day to day operations. As the managing director of HedgeCo Websites I also work directly with hedge fund managers […]
European hedge funds are begining to show promise as new launches in the US decline. One recent fund launch is DanFonds, which is focusing on frontier markets, a hybrid between the public market hedge fund approach and the private equity model. Agilo, a London hedge fund is in talks with Hugh Hefner planning to re-open the Playboy Headquarters in London. […]
Hedge fund regulation has long been a subject of debate, with the SEC pushing for tighter restrictions and managers doing all they can to avoid it. Both stances are understandable. Managers are known for their ambiguity. They provide just enough information to investors, but usually leave the tedious information about specific strategy details and asset allocation to themselves. The federal […]
Hedge funds, who are notorious for chasing large returns often in the short term, are no strangers of pushing for strategic change within companies that they invest in. However, recent trends have seen more and more hedge fund managers looking to oust board members who they feel are not in line with their objectives for growth. On the surface, it […]
While the overwhelming drama and non-stop media coverage of the democratic primaries has alas come to an end, a historic and monumental election awaits us. Never has there been such a divide on pertinent issues or such a stark difference in the socioeconomic backgrounds of the two candidates. To some, Obama represents a long awaited revolution; a beacon of hope […]
If t the Fed had done in the 1930s what Bernanke and Greenspan have done, the Great Depression would have been much worse. If the Fed would have tried to re-inflate the stock market bubble or keep it from bursting in the first place, it’s the dollar that would have collapsed. Subsequently, the Great Depression in America would have looked […]
The Path of Securities Lending – Will It Ever Change – Part I
Securities Lending is the last bastion of manual intervention in an otherwise automated trading world. The process remains the same as it did years ago. You pick up the phone, call your borrow contact at a prime broker, and get quoted a rate. This process repeats itself once for every prime broker. Then, you arrange a borrow and hope that […]