The Art and Science of Hedge Fund Due Diligence

Analyzing the attributes of hedge fund managers determines the quality of hedge fund investments. Skilled managers are able to navigate the ins and outs of absolute return investing, finding the best opportunities that bring in the best ...
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Industry Spotlight: RAM Active Investments

RAM Active Investments' Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Emmanuel Hauptmann, shares insights on the impact of Deep Learning Infrastructure, Natural-Language-Processing and AI on systematic trading strategies. What are the salient ...
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Investment Paradigms: Hedge Funds vs. Mutual Funds

Investors often find themselves at crossroads when deciding between hedge fund and mutual fund investments. While both are pooled investment vehicles, they differ significantly in terms of structure, investment strategies, risk profiles, ...
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SPARCs: A New Era of SPACs?

In July 2021, Bill Ackman told investors he would be liquidating and returning capital in his Pershing Square's $4 billion SPAC, the biggest ever SPAC, after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. ...
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Decoding Manager Success: An Analysis of Equity Long/Short Returns

In the vast landscape of hedge fund products within the equity long/short arena, investors face a formidable task. The pursuit is to sieve through this diverse array in search of a select few managers who not only survive scrutiny but ...
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Industry Spotlight: Millburn Ridgefield

Mr. Barry Goodman is co-CEO of the Millburn Ridgefield Corporation. We discuss his thoughts on salient characteristics and evolutions within quantitative investment management as well as multi-data machine learning approaches to Chinese ...
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Who Is the Next Star? How Past Performance Can Forecast Expected Hedge Fund Returns

Every investor has come across the typical disclaimer: "past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results". While this might be true for a single investment, given the many qualitative and quantitative aspects to consider ...
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Industry Spotlight: Chatbots and Hedge Fund Investing

Resonanz Capital's data scientist, Chang Liu and software engineer Dinko Georgiev share insights on the chatbot they developed for hedge fund investments. How would you explain a chatbot to an intelligent 8 year old child? The chatbot we ...
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Merger Arbitrage: A Turning Point For Managers?

Merger Arbitrage has had multiple challenges during the first half of the year, leading to disappointing performance from many hedge funds in this space, but we now believe that spread widening has priced in much of the risk, and therefore ...
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Industry Spotlight: Capital Fund Management (CFM)

Dr. Philip Seager is the Head of Portfolio Management for Capital Fund Management (CFM). We discuss his thoughts on salient characteristics of quantitative strategies Is Alternative Data the new trend after Big Data? What is Alternative ...
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