Q&A: Bringing Hedge Fund Strategies To The Mutual Fund World
FINalternatives Published on FINalternatives (https://www.finalternatives.com) Q&A: Bringing Hedge Fund Strategies To The Mutual Fund World Feb 8 2012 | 9:31am ET Direxion president and CIO Dan O’Neill says portfolio diversification is about asset classes, but it’s also about strategies. To O’Neill’s way of thinking, Direxion has been in the alternative asset business for years, having cut its teeth in the leveraged index mutual fund space before expanding into leveraged index …
The Benefits of Alternative Strategies
This week’s Barron’s featured an article called “Just Don’t Lose It!” It was an interesting examination of how investors are nervous about the current and future state of the market. Even though January’s market returns were excellent, investors have a good memory of stock and economic gyrations going back to the collapse of 2008, and all the way to the wild up-and-down swings of the past year. This was my …
Trading Like the Hedge Funds Do
With the market starting the year quite well — S&P 500 was up 4% as of Wednesday’s close — we might be tempted to assume thatĂ‚Â Ă‚Â the rest of 2012 will go as smoothly, and start allocating higherĂ‚Â Ă‚Â percentage of our portfolios to U.S. equities. After the past year,Ă‚Â Ă‚Â which resulted in zero returns for the S&P 500, who can blame us?Ă‚Â Ă‚Â It’s also an election year, so things we …
Selectors reveal top absolute return fund picks – by Citywire
Appetite for absolute return funds is increasing so how are fund selectors meeting this demand and are they happy with the performance in this space? Daniel Aymerich Biota, Banco Inversis Asset managers are finding the absolute return concept is a valuable tool allied with their commercial strategies during periods of market turmoil. In theory, it helps to align the interests of investors wishing for attractive, risk controlled returns with the …
2 ‘Pair Trades’ for an ‘Absolute Return’ Strategy, By Jamie Dlugosch
by Jamie Dlugosch | November 21, 2011 9:59 am The lack of confidence in the stock market should be no surprise. Investors have been put through the ringer, and even though a dearth of enthusiasm is ultimately bullish for stocks, it’s tough to be a believer these days. The U.S. economy is teetering, and the lack of a debt deal from the supercommittee[1] is an immediate threat to investors. Then …