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Apples-to-Apples: Assessing Evergreen Hedge Funds vs. Closed-End Private Funds

Allocators routinely compare hedge fund track records against private fund IRRs. That’s a category error. Evergreen vehicles report time-weighted returns (TWR); closed-end programs are cash-flow engines best judged by money-weighted return ...

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Why Emerging Markets Macro has Outperformed in 2025

EM macro has been the right place to be and take risk in 2025. Emerging markets macro hedge funds have outperformed YTD, helped by a weaker-or-at-least-not-stronger dollar, high EM real yields, cleaner balance sheets, and a rich menu of ...

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Understanding the 2025 Quant Unwind: A Practical Guide for Allocators and Managers

This note complements our earlier article on separating durable alpha from disappearing edge (Evaluating Hedge Funds in a Crowded Market). That piece helped allocators assess managers across styles. Here, we narrow the lens to systematic ...

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Designing Failure-Tolerant Hedge Fund Programs: Preparing for Blow-Ups, Gates and Forced Deleveraging

Hedge funds are now core to institutional portfolios, not tactical side bets. Industry assets are approaching USD 5 trillion, with record inflows from institutions in 2024–25 and capital concentrating in a small group of large platforms. ...

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Hedging in the Age of Creeping Risk: A CIO’s Masterclass

I’ll admit it: for a long time, I thought hedging was a solved problem. In my head, it was a neat, mostly technical exercise. You identify the portfolio’s unwanted sensitivities—its delta, its skew, its tail risk—then you go to the market ...

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Risk Mitigation with Hedge Funds: An Allocator's Approach -and the Lessons That Endure

Institutions are putting hedge funds back to work as risk tools, not side bets. The signal is clear: BlackRock’s Investment Institute has urged allocators to lift hedge fund weights by up to five percentage points, its largest guidance on ...

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Capital Structure Arbitrage: When Equity and Credit Disagree

Capital Structure Arbitrage (CSA) looks for mispricings between a company’s equity and its liabilities (bonds/CDS/loans/convertibles) and then constructs offsetting positions to isolate the relative value. At its core is a simple idea with ...

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Cat Bonds: What Allocators Need to Know Now

Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) have moved from niche to mainstream allocator tool. Record primary supply in 2025—$10.5bn in Q2 alone and a $54–56bn outstanding market mid-year—reflects insurers’ demand for alternative capital and investors’ ...

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Dutch Pensions: What’s Changing and Why Markets Care

The Netherlands is shifting from DB-style promises to DC-style accruals under the Future Pensions Act (Wtp). A sizeable share of assets plans to transition around January 2026, with a follow-up wave likely in January 2027. The shift ...

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Monthly QIS Review - October 2025

Executive Summary October proved a mixed month for the quantitative investment strategy (QIS) universe. The average composite returned +0.08% MTD, with roughly 48% (20 of 42) strategies posting gains. Dispersion widened meaningfully — ...

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