Hedge Fund vs. Mutual Fund: Key Differences Explained + Investor’s Guide
Knowing the difference between hedge funds and mutual funds is crucial if you want to be a smart investor in today’s market. While hedge funds and mutual funds both use pooled funds to generate returns for investors, there aren’t many other similarities between the...
What Is Arbitrage In Financial Markets (And How You Can Use It)
Arbitrage exploits inefficiencies in the market that otherwise wouldn’t exist under conditions of perfect interest rate parity. Without price inefficiency (i.e., market prices on one exchange not having caught up to the real market price reflected on another), there’s...
What Is The Difference Between Private Equity and Venture Capital?
Although they often overlap, private equity and venture capital (VC) are not the same things. Certainly, private equity and VC are both types of financial investing interested in turning a profit by buying at a low price and selling once the asset appreciates....
Time For A Currency Hedge Fund Approach?
It is no secret that hedge funds have been struggling for several years now. The widely followed Bloomberg Global Aggregate Hedge Fund Index so far is up 1.2% for 2016. This represents the third consecutive year that it has seen lower than two percent returns. Yet...
Hedge Fund Industry Trends to Watch
The surprise announcement of Paul Tudor Jones laying off 60 people representing 15% of his employees this week means that you need to be especially aware of hedge fund trends that are changing the industry. This does not mean that all of the hedge funds are losing...
Investors Sticking With Hedge Funds Amid Improvement in Performance
After the rough couple of months that many hedge funds have endured with their returns from the beginning of the year, they were due for some better news. Many of the hedge fund managers were further discouraged by the financial climate after the Brexit referendum....
The Best Tail Risk Hedge Strategy Available Now
With all of the recent geopolitical chaos in the world over the last month, ranging from half a dozen terrorist attacks in France and now Germany, to the failed major military coup in Turkey, to the stunning Brexit referendum vote for the world's fifth largest economy...
Demand for Successful Computer Trend-Following Strategy Hedge Funds Is Growing
Most hedge funds utilize highly paid star managers to develop their strategy and invest the client money in the vehicles that match these objectives. Since the financial crisis of 2008, a new and growing type of hedge funds has emerged. These are the trend following...
Tail Risk Funds Making the Most Sense in Years
For anyone who was on vacation and missed the market updates during the last week, volatility is back with a vengeance. Thanks to the pro-leave Brexit vote, the world's financial markets have been upended once again. U.S. stock markets saw over 600 point drops one day...
Hedge Funds and Investors Take Positions on Brexit Outcome and Aftermath
After hedge fund managers experienced the most disappointing first quarter returns since the financial crisis erupted, they have sensed a new opportunity. This surrounds the vote today of Britons deciding whether to leave the European Union or remain in an institution...
