For now, it looks like investors are trying to cash in on the “hot market.” Just as long they can stomach the volatility that goes along with those kind of markets.
Category: Why Alternatives?
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Apr
2017
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Mar
2017
The Alternative Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns
Our main issues are: it doesn’t include Managed Futures and the periodic table/quilt doesn’t show the magnitude of the moves all that well
22
Mar
2017
Alternative Links: Human vs Robot
Only rarely — if at all — will the [outcomes] favour the continued employment of a man over a model of a man,” Technology outsmarts the human investor – (FT) When an institution allocates to a momentum strategy in the hope of cushioning itself from stock market downdraughts it is really commissioning someone to […]
15
Mar
2017
Never Tell Me The Odds
Our un-scientific graph of how human’s perceive probabilities versus the actual probability of something happening are as follows:
14
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.
01
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
22
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 […]
16
Feb
2017
RCM Alternatives Wins Best Introducing Broker Fourth Year in a Row
If you’ve been spent any time on the RCM Alternatives website as of late, you might have noticed things look a little different. We’re talking about a completely fresh look, designed purely with the idea of making it as user friendly as possible for potential investors to find an alternative investment research, stats, and a […]
16
Feb
2017
Rickety Rationale for Commodity Investing
More than a few are likely to be confused and/or upset when and if commodity prices go on a tear higher and their absolute return program doesn’t keep pace.
15
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.
