Bear Market Characteristics

Bear Market Duration And Depth The average and median bear market lasts around a year and a half. Certain bear markets have been very brief, for example, the recession of 1990-91 only led to a short, shallow, stock market decline. ...
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The Exclusive Club of Multi-PM Hedge Funds

In February of this year, we highlighted a trend amongst hedge funds of locking up investors capital for longer time periods, but we noticed that this trends applied to a small number of successful managers, both in terms of recent ...
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Higher Frequency Hedge Fund Returns

Most hedge funds report returns only with lower frequency, e.g., weekly or monthly. Yet, many market events play out during a few days only. This imposes the risk that one might miss important dynamics when looking at a time series of ...
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Market Bottoms Rhyme

Understanding Market Bottoms Investors seek to buy financial markets near a market bottom. However, since market environments rhyme instead of repeating, investors are generally paralyzed by fear as markets decline. It’s difficult to know ...
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An Investor’s Guide to Crypto by Man Group

The crypto space is becoming hard to ignore with a capitalization of about $1tn (as of July 2022) that is approximately half the value of all US notes and coins in circulation. Source: Man Group Is crypto a bubble? The space has grown ...
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QFI: Chinese Commodity Markets

China’s futures market is among some of the most active global markets. In 2021, their exchanges were within the top 10 by trading volume (lots). Source: Orient Futures As of August 2022, the four commodity exchanges have a trading volume ...
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Multi-PM Platforms: How Much Can A Person Manage?

Multi-PM platforms were not always popular, particularly due to their high pass-through fees, however they have gained prominence over the recent number of years due to their stability and performance. In this post, we look at 32 multi-PM ...
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Credit Hedge Funds Are Back

Credit Managers: Yet Another Comeback Story? 2022 has been marked by a confluence of geopolitical event, as well as the return of a persistent inflation which triggered the first sustained tightening of monetary policy since before the ...
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Co-investments In The Context of Hedge Funds

Traditionally, co-investments were part of the playbook of the PE industry (but also real estate, infrastructure and energy partnerships) for many years. Over time, they have been gradually adopted by the hedge fund industry (and other ...
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The Dynamic Convertible Bond

Convertible Bonds and convertible arbitrage were high demand Hedge Fund strategies in the 1990’s up through the financial crisis. The confluence of GFC and the subsequent decade plus of QE was devastating for convertible strategies for two ...
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