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Diversifying Market Risk through Market-Neutral Strategies
by Marco A. Navone
Usually hedge funds are linked to concepts such "superior selection ability" and "abnormal returns" (subject to abnormal risks). Recent literature has pointed out that seldom hedge funds achieve performances significantly higher than broad capitalization market indices or mutual funds, and that basically hedge funds are just a different way to rule the agency relation between investors and the investment manager. From this consideration follows that one of the most important features of hedge funds is the manager's ability to take both long and short positions on the markets... More...

Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals
by Richard Horwitz
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In the constantly evolving hedge fund marketplace, nothing is more central—but in many ways, more amorphous and elusive—than risk. Yet there remains no standard for analyzing and measuring risk within this highly secretive, largely unregulated field, leaving the thousands of hedge funds—and the tens of thousands of hedge fund investors—in dangerously dim light. The industry has not solved the "transparency" challenge—communicating risk to investors without disclosing proprietary information.

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Cool regulator won't stop Indian hedge funds
Source: NDTV Profit
Indian hedge funds will grow rapidly despite a hesitant attitude from the country's regulators, industry participants said on Tuesday, as investors keep piling money into the nascent industry. More...

DE Shaw ups stake in ITG, urges it to consider sale
Source: Reuters
Hedge fund D.E. Shaw has increased its stake in Investment Technology Group (ITG.N: Quote, Profile, Research to 6.2 percent and asked the electronic broker to consider a sale, according to a regulatory filing. More...

Germany hopes for more hedge fund talks
Source: Reuters UK
Germany's finance ministry said on Monday it hoped for further discussions on improving the transparency of hedge funds after last week's G8 summit yielded no concrete plan for doing so. More...

Hedge fund market opens to Islamic investors
Source: ArabianBusiness.com
Dubai Islamic Bank has teamed up with two of the biggest names in world finance to open up the lucrative hedge fund market to Islamic investors. More...

Omni’s Multi-Strat Hedge Fund Closes In On $350M Target
Source: FINalternatives
Omni Partners has rebranded its highly successful Hartford Growth Fund and opened it to outside investors. The newly-dubbed multi-strategy Omni Global Fund began trading in February with some $60 million in assets. More...

On Hedge Funds, Batting Averages and Fat Tails
Source: The New York Times
Hedge funds and those who do business with them were warned Monday by a Treasury official not to operate “under the false illusion” that systemic risk from their activities was not a “real possibility.” More...

SGAM offers Alternative Investments Equity fund to UK
Source: Investment Week
SGAM is offering the SGAM AI Equity fund to the UK market after receiving distributor status.

The Ucits III product offers institutional and retail clients exposure to hedge fund specialists managing long-only or long-biased equity investment strategies. More...

Hedge fund seeks out deals for Freeport
Source: CNN Money
U.S. hedge fund Atticus Capital LP said it has met with third parties to encourage strategic deals with Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc., less than three months after the miner became the world's largest publicly traded copper producer. More...

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Today's Humor

Pete and Gladys were looking at a new living room suite in the furniture store.

Pete said to the salesman, "We really like it, but I don't think we can afford it."

The salesman said, "You just make a small down payment, and then you don't make another payment for six months."

Gladys wheeled around with her hands on her hips and said, "Who told you about us?"

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