The dismal truth about hedge funds and how investors can get a greater share of the profitsShocking but true: if all the money that's ever been invested in hedge funds had been in treasury bills, the results would have been twice as good.Although hedge fund managers have earned some great...

The role of the hostile activist shareholder has been taken up by a set of hedge funds. Hedge fund activism is characterized by mergers and corporate restructuring, replacement of management and board members, proxy voting, and lobbying of management. These investors target and research...

Alternative Investments rückten in den letzten Jahren aufgrund ihres Diversikationseffekts mit traditionellen Anlagen und ihrer guten Performance auch in fallenden Märkten in den Blickpunkt der Investoren. Alleine die Hedge Fonds Branche konnte laut Barclay Hedge das verwaltete Anlagevolumen...

This paper discusses the application of statistical, survey sampling technique to hedge fund tracking problems. I describe a strategy that allows an investor or a fund of hedge funds manager, to construct a small tracking portfolio that replicates the time series changes of the total relative...