The Occasional Charm of Short Sellers

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Every once in a while, investors stampede to short sellers. This

Quants Get Traction After Tough Year

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Trend-following quantitative traders of futures contracts did better

Bond Market Worries Favor Arbitrage

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Rates are so low, the only direction they can go is up. That’s the conventional wisdom and it implies that the bond rally is near its end.  Despite that concern, investors have been moving money to fixed income arbitrage funds. The reason

Wide Performance Dispersion in Volatile Markets

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Global macro is the kind of flexible strategy that should do well in a difficult economic environment. How did investors in the strategy do in 2011?

Replicator Beats Managers

An index that tracks reproducible hedge fund performance had significantly higher return than actual hedge funds in the period that started January 2008. Boris Arabadjiev, chief investment officer of the Credit Suisse fund of hedge funds group, found that this replicator outperformed underlying hedge fund strategies by as much as three to five percentage points.

What does it mean?

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