Cash–Futures Basis, Repo Leverage, and Margin: An Allocator's Guide to the Treasury Basis Trade

In April 2020, the Federal Reserve injected $1.6 trillion into Treasury markets in a matter of weeks. The proximate cause wasn't a credit crisis or a bank run. It was a leveraged carry trade unwinding faster than the plumbing could handle. ...
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Synthetic Alpha: 10 Due-Diligence Tests That Expose LLM-Washing in Quant Pitch Decks

A lot of “AI quant” decks in 2026 are marketing decks with extra nouns. The claims sound technical. The evidence is thin. And the slide count goes up every time the Sharpe goes down. The allocator’s job isn’t to decide whether large ...
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The Premium Income Mistake: Why "Equity Premium Income" Isn't the Income You Think It Is

A family office CIO shared a real-life story with me recently. His principal—a retired tech executive—was furious. The "high-income equity strategy" they'd allocated $3M to in early 2024 had just lagged the S&P 500 by 22 percentage ...
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Sleeve Management: Running a Liquid Alternatives Portfolio Like a Pod Shop

Most allocators start with what to own. The harder question comes later: how much to give each sleeve, when to reduce it, and when to add? That is sleeve management. A multi-manager pod shop solves the same problem inside a hedge fund. ...
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June 11, 2026: The SEC Names Rule Playbook for Liquid Alts (80% Policy)

If you allocate to liquid alternatives, you already know the awkward truth: the label sells the strategy. Now the label has to pass a math test. The SEC’s amended Names Rule (Rule 35d-1) is forcing funds to line up what’s in the name with ...
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Quant Hedge Funds in 2026: A Due Diligence Framework by Strategy Type

“Quant” is not a strategy. It’s a production method. That distinction matters because allocator outcomes diverge based on what kind of quant you own. A trend fund can be operationally simple and still blow up from leverage and execution. A ...
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I've Used All 10 of These Clichés. Here's How I Stopped.

Markets change. Narratives rotate. Yet certain sentences never die. They show up in bull markets, bear markets, and the weird in-between markets where everyone says "it's a stock picker's market" while buying the same seven mega-caps. To ...
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Monthly QIS Review - January 2026

January 2026 was a good reminder of a core truth in systematic investing: headline market strength does not guarantee broad-based performance. Risk assets advanced and sentiment remained constructive, but under the surface the market was ...
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Who’s On The Other Side Of Your Trade?

Markets don’t move because “the market thinks.” They move because someone, somewhere has to trade—to rebalance, hedge, meet a mandate, manage risk, or implement a flow. If you’re an allocator, CIO, or PM, that’s not just a neat line. It’s ...
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Underwriting Backtests in Systematic Investing: How to Separate Evidence from Noise

Systematic investing is in oversupply. Equity statistical arbitrage managers can run thousands of signals across hundreds of stocks. Macro quant teams can test dozens of model variants across rates, FX, commodities, and futures curves. The ...
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