Our un-scientific graph of how human’s perceive probabilities versus the actual probability of something happening are as follows:
Category: Other Voices
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Mar
2017
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Mar
2017
Emerging Managers & Diversity: What No One is Talking About—Yet
The study found that only 439 hedge funds employ a female portfolio manager, compared with 9,081 that employ a male investment manager.
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Mar
2017
Alternative Links: Peak Commodity Love
As a group, hedge funds now hold a record net long position equivalent to 951 million barrels across the three main Brent and WTI contracts
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Feb
2017
Weekend Reads: 7 Earth Sized Planets
At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets.
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Feb
2017
Alternative Links: Bullish Oil Market
Forward prices for crude oil are signaling tightening supply for the first time since the market crashed in 2014. Oil Market Signal Turns Bullish for 1st Time Since Crash – (Bloomberg) Investors can look to managed futures funds to help reduce their exposure to risk. It is the transparency and liquidity that make active […]
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Feb
2017
Weekend Reads: Eliminating “Sell By” Dates
But those are mostly wants. When it comes to needs, it’s a different story. Housing, even after the 2008-09 crack-up, is expensive. Rentals have gone straight up as home ownership has fallen. The costs of education have skyrocketed and show no signs of slowing. Medical and health-insurance costs are among the fastest-rising of all consumer […]
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Feb
2017
Alternative Links: 8th Richest Man
After becoming the world’s eighth-richest man at his peak in early 2012, the Brazilian tycoon lost $35 billion in a single year as his commodities empire collapsed.
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Feb
2017
Weekend Reads: Treasury Price Differences
For example, a number of hedge funds will seek to exploit differences in the price of cash Treasuries and equivalent futures. That could explain large futures selling to coincide with buying cash securities — the net position is flat but it appears in the data as a short position. Hedge funds and asset managers take […]
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Feb
2017
Alternative Links: FXCM Banned
FXCM has been banned from operating in the U.S. after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found the retail currency broker had an undisclosed interest in the market maker that consistently “won” the largest share of FXCM’s trading volume – and thus was taking positions opposite its retail customers. FXCM banned by CFTC after taking positions […]
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Feb
2017
Weekend Reads: Under-Allocated to CTAs
I think people are under-allocated to CTAs. It’s a good way of getting the (risk mitigating) medicine to the patient . . . But investors are return chasers and last year was not a good year,” he says. Trend-following funds need to find their footing in 2017 – (FT) In the decade after Ed thorp launched Princeton Newport […]
