The Hedge Fund Baromoter (March 2011)
19. Apr, 2011 
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UCITS III – Bullet Point Summary
29. Oct, 2010 0 Comments
UCITS – an acronym for Udertakings for Collective Investments in transferable Securities The UCITS regulatory umbrella basically allows the fund to be sold to any investor within the European Union under a harmonised regulatory regime. The basic investment rules are: Assets Allowed: Transferable securities, equities, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, derivatives, CFDs Assets Not Allowed: Physical [...]
Read moreWhich are the most popular (or most common) Hedge Fund strategies?
05. Jul, 2010 Comments Off
Looking at the latest database profile from HedgFund.net its clear to see that the most popular hedge fund strategy is still L/S Equity. CTA’s, in the past often shunned by a large segment of the market due to higher volatility, are now in fact the second most popular strategy (by number of funds). Long/Short 32.2% [...]
Read moreWhich Hedge fund Database?
28. Jun, 2010 Comments Off
There are a number of hedge fund databases available. As the universe is much smaller than the mutual fund universe you would expect a great deal of overlap between databases. This is not necessarily the case so do your research first. Other questions to ask would be: How many dead funds currently make up the [...]
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