Simon Kerr
The Big Hedge Fund Stories from 2011: Part 1 | ||
| Jan 25th, 2012 | ||
| Although individual news items can have can have historical significance (such as story number 1 below) the effort here is more to point to the themes... | ||
Best Practice Series: No Explicit Cost vs Negative Carry Option Strategies | ||
| Jun 6th, 2011 | ||
| In my consultancy work I have been surprised by the frequency with which I have come across zero-cost strategies in options. Traders and portfolio managers... | ||
Best Practice Series: Team Work at Hedge Funds | ||
| Apr 29th, 2011 | ||
| There is no such thing as a perfect hedge fund – we are all trying. So in my role as a consultant to hedge fund portfolio managers (PMs), I am usually... | ||
London Losing its Allure as a Trading Centre if Guggenheim Partners' Decision Making is Indicative | ||
| Mar 7th, 2011 | ||
| The politicians don't believe it when the British Bankers Association or AIMA say that tax-paying talent will leave the country, or when supply-siders... | ||
All Credit to Moore Capital for This Year's Bounce Back | ||
| Nov 11th, 2010 | ||
| One of the biggest decisions that hedge fund managers in any investment style have to make is how they respond to significant losses, even if they are... | ||
Proposed EU Short Selling Disclosure Regulations Bad for Large Hedge Funds and the Market | ||
| Oct 8th, 2010 | ||
| Proposed short selling disclosure regulations announced in the week before last by the European Commission (EC) are too stringent and threaten market... | ||
Another Year Another Challenge for Funds of Hedge Funds | ||
| Aug 31st, 2010 | ||
| In 2008 the fund of funds industry had a tough time producing returns for investors because only 30% of hedge funds produced a positive return. For 2009... | ||
Fund of Hedge Fund Dis-intermediation | ||
| May 2nd, 2010 | ||
| Following up on the prospects for funds of hedge funds, which I have covered earlier in the month, I neglected to mention dis-intermediation by investing... | ||
Returns from Special Situations to Become Special Again? | ||
| Apr 26th, 2010 | ||
| A few months ago I was a guest on the hedge fund radio show "The Naked Short Club" on Resonance FM. A question for the panel was "which hedge fund strategies... | ||
Investing with China-based Hedge Funds: Problems and Solutions | ||
| Feb 14th, 2010 | ||
| This journal has been running for four months and this is the first posting to mention China. At the start of the year as strategists and economists gave... | ||
Recent Headlines
Third Point continues to fight Yahoo for Board seats |
Top Mid-Sized Hedge Funds Bulk-Up, Oversee $55.3 Billion |
Eton Park Veteran Thierry Lucas founds Portland Hill Capital |
Top 100 Hedge Funds List Rebounds |
6,200 Wealthy Executives raise more than $5 billion |
Tony Chedraoui’s Tyrus Capital off to a good start in 2012 |
UCITS HFS Index with good start into 2012, up +1.54% in January |
Top Mid-Sized Hedge Funds hold their ground, Oversee $50 Billion |
Daniel Och optimistic about investment landscape in 2012 |
Fundspire Celebrates Growth in the Cloud in 2011 |
