Hedge funds had been on a roll. But that sweet run ended last week when hedge funds fell by 1.43%, erasing any gains for the month of October.
According to analysts at Merrill Lynch, those loss...
An essay on the world of finance, how its economic power has grown precipitously over the past three decades, its influence on government, and the need for a return to substantive finance and a wor...
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19th century legislators and jurists crafted a carefully considered approach to derivatives. The principle underlying this approach was that financial contracts are legally enforceable only when th...
House of Lords EU Committee Inquiry on the European Commission Directive on Alternative Investments Fund Managers Response from: Church Commissioners, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Nuffield Foundatio...
Most people that I know don't think about risk tolerance, this is why they do not even know where this threshold is in commodity trading. The fact is most people actually hate to lose money no matt...
The purpose of the survey was to highlight and illuminate the lessons learned by key market participants – both providers and users of capital – in the months since the financial crisis. The survey...
Hedge funds continued their winning run, ending September up 2% and 3Q09 up a substantial 6.4%. This follows the stellar 8% HFs returned in 2Q09- the best quarterly performance since 4Q99. HFs have...
Today what do you call a gold bug? Cautious, prudent scared or a trend follower? The fact is that Gold is on the move once again. As I am writing this gold is knocking on the door 1020 again. Is it...
In 2008, the hedge fund industry posted its
worst performance ever. Even if hedge funds significantly outperformed equities, they failed to deliver a positive absolute performance during a period...