Peltz Continues Legg Mason Saga

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Nelson Peltz has been a large investor in asset manager Legg Mason

Chanos Goes for Chinese Large Caps

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Renowned short seller James Chanos has been famously bearish on China for several years.

Bond ETFs Hold Up Amid Volatility

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Recent big ups and downs

Carlyle Quants in Bridgewater Bailiwick

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Risk-parity investing is not a household term. At least, not yet.

Are ETFs the New Futures?

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Exchange-traded funds are becoming a favorite instrument for bond

Other Side of Yale Model: ETFs

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The investment approach associated

Blackstone Solves Retail Riddle, Maybe

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Dreams of selling alternative investments to the mass market

ETF Flows Boost Bond Strategy

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As yield-seekers increasingly took refuge in junk bonds, money flowed to index funds in this asset class, in particular exchange-traded index funds. This has been a boon for hedge funds

Quant Traders’ Contrarian Bullish Bets

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Quantitative models sometimes come up with trades that go against the flow. Case in point: bullish bets on

Fighting the Grinch in Commodities Roll

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Most of the money going into commodities goes to index investments. These suffer from a perennial problem regardless of what’s happening in markets for commodities, known as the negative roll yield. Investors can lose money even when the basket of commodities the index represents gain value. Commodity hedge fund people will tell you that to escape this horror you should give the money to them – for a higher fee, of course – instead of putting it on an index.