Here are articles we found interesting this week.
Category: Investing Insight
18
Apr
2014
17
Apr
2014
Why do Investors Love Large Hedge Funds?
It’s the always present question mid-size and start up funds ask themselves day in and day out. Alternatives research and analysis firm Preqin tackles the question with some hard data in their most recent piece: “What are Investors Looking For?”, showing that the small and mid-size hedge funds outperformed the largest funds by about 1.7% in 2013:
01
Apr
2014
Risk On/Risk Off Shutting Off
There haven’t been too many Risk On/ Risk Off days to speak of in 2014, with just 1 ‘risk on’ day in both February and March.This is no doubt another sign that the ‘recovery’ is in full force, with markets dancing to their own beat instead of following equities higher or lower on big moves.
31
Mar
2014
What a Hedge Fund Failure Looks like:
The mainstream financial press couldn’t get enough of the news today/yesterday that hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones was shutting down one of his eponymous funds, the Tudor Tensor Fund (try saying Tudor Tensor ten times fast). Here’s a snapshot of some of the twitter comments:
27
Mar
2014
Finding the Next Dayton for Your Portfolio
So who do you usually pick for your portfolio – the Duke’s of the investment world, or the Dayton’s? Do you play it safe and go with the best record and highest seed? Or try and uncover talented teams which have flown under the radar but are ready for a big upset (we actually did a Managed Futures Bracket for those who want to find some underdogs).
19
Mar
2014
Will Simple Beat Complex in the Next 5 Years?
One of our favorite bloggers almost made us cry yesterday… It’s Barry Ritholtz, who grabbed the charts out of our own post on various markets movements and asset classes both before and after March 9th, 2009 (the equity low), and used them to kick managed futures while their down — claiming Cheap and Simple (stock) beats (present tense) Expensive and Complex (managed futures).
13
Mar
2014
Chart of the Week: YTD Asset Class Scoreboard
Here’s our usual monthly look at the scoreboard, after the February numbers for everything we track are finally in. That’s a rarely seen octuple, with all 8 asset classes posting positive performance in February, and all but managed futures positive on the year. C’mon managed futures … get in the game!
10
Mar
2014
23 Commodity, Equity, and Currency Markets since the 2009 Low
It seems like only yesterday we had 700 point down moves in the Dow, Lehman going bankrupt, and billions and billions in bailouts being handed out as the stock market made new lows seemingly every week, dragging down most commodity markets with it. But can you believe it’s actually been 5 years. Here are 23 commodity, equity, and currency markets since the March 9, 2009 low
10
Feb
2014
Commodity ETFs vs Long Futures vs Ag Trading CTAs
Here’s our monthly look at: How the numerous commodity ETFs which have sprung onto the scene the past few years are tracking a simple strategy of just buying the December futures market of that commodity, under the theory that the ETF will have to roll their positions periodically throughout the year, and in doing so take on costs the simple strategy does not have.
21
Nov
2013
The Surprising Connection That The Worst Performing ETF’s Share
When is enough, enough? That’s the question you have to be repeating to yourself if you’re a Gold Bull. Or maybe, the better question is, that’s what you have to be thinking if you’re invested in a long Gold ETF. Upon surfing the interwebs for useful financial commentary and statistics, we stumbled upon the Worst 10 ETF performer’s YTD from Index Universe… and can you guess what most of them had in common?
