Same-Day Options, Same-Day Alpha? Institutional Lessons from 0-DTE’s Boom

From weekly curiosities to the default playground Until quite recently, the idea of an option that expired within the same trading day was considered an exotic corner of the derivatives world. But that has changed dramatically. ...
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Does Hedge Fund Manager Pedigree Really Matter?

In our previous post—Hedge Fund Crystal Ball: Can We Really Predict Future Performance?—we looked at the usual suspects investors reach for when trying to forecast hedge fund returns. One term that kept popping up—and that deserves a ...
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The Rising Relevance of Risk-Adjusted Returns in Portfolio Construction

In an industry where noise often masquerades as insight, one of the most persistent illusions has been that all positive returns are created equal. For too long, portfolios have been judged on nominal performance, as if riding the tide of ...
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Beyond the Backtest: Critical Operational Questions for QIS Allocators

Bank-sponsored Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) are increasingly prominent in institutional portfolios. Whether designed to capture style premia, replicate hedge fund strategies within UCITS structures, or offer tailored overlays, ...
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Volatility Premia – There are many Ways to Skin a Cat

Every option price contains an insurance component: the seller demanding payment for the possibility that tomorrow departs radically from today. On average, the cost of that insurance – the implied volatility – trades above whatever ...
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Hedge Fund Investing: Does Size -Really- Matter?

In our previous post on predictability of hedge fund performance, we explored whether hedge fund performance can be predicted—and which factors actually matter. This follow-up dives into one such driver: fund size. Investors often face a ...
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Carbon Alpha: Capturing Uncorrelated Returns in Global Emissions Markets

When institutional investors think about absolute return, they often look to equity-neutral hedge funds, discretionary macro, or systematic CTAs. Yet in the background, a new liquid and differentiated market has quietly become viable: ...
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Monthly QIS Review - May 2025

Executive Summary May 2025 proved friendlier to the systematic-strategy universe than the whipsaw seen in April. Aggregate QIS returns finished modestly positive, dispersion compressed to ≈ 5½ percentage points and—crucially—all five major ...
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AI Use by Hedge Funds Made Tangible - From Lego Bots to Alpha Assistants

When we published our blog post on how hedge funds are using Generative AI, we argued that the decisive variable was maturity: the winners weren’t the firms with the flashiest demos but the ones that had already woven private LLMs, vector ...
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Why Track Records Matter (and What They Actually Tell You)

When we evaluate past performance, we’re doing more than flipping through history. We’re trying to answer: how likely is it that this return pattern reflects genuine skill—rather than luck or beta exposure? This is where statistics becomes ...
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