10 Hedge Fund Myths
Nice work by WealthManagement looking at the usual misinformation about hedge funds. Its a shame its in (horrific) slide show format....
2% & 20% & How Much?!?
By now, almost every finance aficionado knows about the problems in the hedge-fund industry. With almost $3 trillion in assets under...
Hedge-Fund Investors Dumping Lagging Funds
Fascinating development: Hedge-Fund Investors Dump Laggards, 84% Redeem in First Half click for ginormous chart Source: Bloomberg
Hedge Funds & Charitable Foundations
Hedge Funds & Charitable Foundations David R Kotok Cumberland, July 12, 2016 Our first missive about the perils of...
Will Hedge Funds Change their Fee Structure?
I referenced a fascinating discussion in yesterday’s reads via Meb Faber about “delusional institutional investors”...
Why Plan Sponsors need Professional (Independent) Advice?
Dan McConlogue is the Director of Corporate Retirement Plans at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Dan is the principal and founder of Eleven...
Telling Clients No
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at whether financial advisors should always...
How Reproducible is Alpha?
Is alpha, the Wall Street term for market-beating returns, sustainable? Or is it a unique, statistical outlier, indistinguishable from...
Top-Earning Hedge Fund Managers, 2015 Edition
This list is pretty amazing for a number of reasons, but what is perhaps most mind boggling about it is that Jim Simons tops the list,...
Nobody Knows Anything
Let’s Say It All Together: Nobody Knows Anything The primary elections are another case study in the futility of making...