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Multi-Asset Trend as Feeders Decline

Diversified portfolios of various types of investments may replace fund of hedge funds. For the latter, bad times continue. They’ve shed more assets in July and had net inflows in only three of the...

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Goldman Raised $1.6B

Chidem Kurdas Goldman Sachs managed to sell interests in a fund of hedge funds to the tune of about $1.606 billion. The buyers appear to be accredited high-worth investors who acquired the securities...

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Tiger Seeded Contrarian Draws Investors

Chidem Kurdas Among the new funds favored by large allocators is Trient global macro, run by former managers of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund. Global macro strategies are in demand—-their broad...

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Pension Direct Investing Drives Industry

Growth in the third quarter was brisk, bringing up total hedge fund assets to about $2.5 trillion at the end of September, according to Hedge Fund Research. This despite – or perhaps because of – the...

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Blackstone Solves Retail Riddle, Maybe

Chidem Kurdas Dreams of selling alternative investments to the mass market go back ten years or more. Those hopes were not realized and retail hedge funds remained small. Until now. Blackstone Group,...

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A Few Retain Cachet

Chidem Kurdas Can active traders persistently make money? Those who say “yes” point to some traders who seemingly have done so—often themselves. Then there is the perception bias Nassim Taleb used to...

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Lockups Enter Fee Concerns

Chidem Kurdas Many investors want to have reasonably expeditious access to their money. But high-return hedge fund strategies can require the passage of time. Such strategies are not successful if...

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Raising $1.1B, Arden Upbeat on 2014

Chidem Kurdas A surprising success in a market environment that did not favor hedge fund strategies, a multi-manager mutual fund launched by Arden a year ago took in about $1.1 billion. This suggests...

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Trends Come Back to Surprise Investors

Chidem Kurdas It’s a common pattern. No sooner than a view solidifies into conventional wisdom, it turns out to be wrong. So it was with 2014’s top hedge fund strategy. This is a strategy where the...

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A Test that Few Pass …

Sounds like many new managers are having a hard time. But this is nothing new. From Ponzi Regulation:  “A chat between two men in April 1999 demonstrates the dynamic. They met at a small office in...

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