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Stephen J. Brown is David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.  Professor Stephen Brown describes how his recent research reports into operational due diligence have shown that operational risk[...]

A new study has found that hedge fund firms that manage several hedge funds tend to underperform compared to their counterparts that are managing less or only one hedge fund. The underperformance is between 3 to 5% per year after adjusting for risk.



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Opalesque, the world's largest subscription-based publisher in the alternative investments area, has launched Opalesque Futures Strategies to help Qualified Eligible Participants and Accredited Investors to invest in and benefit from Managed Futures and[...]

The Directors’ Dealings Fund (DD Fund) is probably the only investment fund that exists in Europe and the US focusing exclusively on Directors’ Dealings Fund.

Steven Liptz and Cy Jacobs formed 36ONE Asset Management in 2004. The company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and manages five funds in total: two local South African hedge funds, a Cayman based hedge fund and two mutual funds. Current firm AUM[...]

A detailed collection of up-to-date videos and interviews that focus on the fast-growing and dynamic Emerging and Frontier Markets as well as the opportunities and challenges in an ever-changing world. Get information of Emerging and Frontier Markets[...]

Hedge funds have historically been the financial territory of the English speaking world, but they have spread in all the places which allow them enough freedom to conduct their investments. They started appearing in the People’s Republic of China in[...]

A Roundtable of U.K. based hedge fund experts found that London is still the dominant location for hedge funds in Europe, with the highest concentration of Europe's talent, assets, risk taking, service providers and new launches. As an industry, hedge[...]

Tim Pickering developed the Auspice Broad Commodity and Managed Futures indexes, which are calculated and published by the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Pickering started an energy-focused CTA program. He manages $250 million altogether. The Auspice diversified[...]