Market Vs. Economic Cycles And Sector Rotation – Seeking Alpha
Market Vs. Economic Cycles And Sector Rotation – Seeking Alpha. By Lance Roberts “To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There Is A Season (Turn, Turn, Turn) And A Time To Every Purpose, Under HeavenA Time To Be Born, A Time To Die A Time To Plan, A Time To Reap A Time To Kill, A Time To Heal A Time To Laugh, A Time To Weap” Those lyrics to Turn! …
ETFs flourish as alpha stay elusive By David Ricketts
ETFs flourish as alpha stays elusive By David Ricketts It is no secret that active managers have received considerable flak for often failing to outperform benchmark indices and generate returns in line with their handsome fees. Investors remain convinced that those with superior investment clout should be best placed to navigate market turbulence in search of the highest possible returns. Figures suggest performance among active managers has been lacklustre, to …
Insight: Absolute return funds: no sure refuge By Sinead Cruise and Tommy Wilkes
Thu, Aug 18 2011 LONDON (Reuters) – Absolute return funds could be turning into Europe’s next investment mis-selling row. As freefalling equity and bond markets ravage people’s savings, private investors globally are piling into the funds, which aim to deliver positive returns whether markets are rising or falling. That demand has driven the assets held in absolute return funds to 182.1 billion euros globally at June 30, data from Lipper, …
Time to revisit absolute-return strategies? By Gordon Ross
Published: August 19, 2011 Central banks’ attempts to sustain the global recovery have left many bond investors in a tricky position. With rates at extreme lows, there is little room for further declines and consequently less opportunity for bond investors to achieve capital gains. Unless the economy slips back into recession, yields should move up in the next year or so, leading to capital declines in fixed-income strategies managed against …
Indiana Public Retirement drops GMO as absolute-return manager By Barry Burr
By Barry B. Burr Published: November 4, 2011 Indiana Public Retirement System, Indianapolis, terminated GMO, which ran $132.3 million in an absolute-return strategy for the $23.5 billion system, according to an investment board report.  “In our continuous effort to mitigate the overall fund’s correlation to equity markets, it is our desire to minimize directional bets in the hedge fund portfolio,” the report said. “Approximately 70% of the monies in …
How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies – Forbes
How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies – Forbes. How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies
Follow the Cycle – Richard Bernstein Advisors – October 31, 2011
Follow the Cycle – Richard Bernstein Advisors – October 31, 2011. It remains a mystery to us as to why investors believe each cycle is terribly different from other cycles. The title of a very popular book right now is “This Time is Different.” Some cycles are, of course, stronger and some are weaker, and some cycles last longer than others. However, the investment implications at different points in the …
Separate Accounts way forward, says hedge fund industry legend
Separate accounts way forward, says hedge fund industry legend Oct 19, 2011 by Charles Gubert Hedge fund managers will inevitably have to create separate accounts or structures that afford investors the same rights as separate accounts if they are to retain business, hedge fund industry veteran Frank Meyer has said. Separate accounts are tailored offerings for investors, which enable greater transparency and allow clients to maintain control over assets. The …
Active ETFs Likely to fuel in US Market
PrintĂ‚Â Ă‚Â Ă‚Â | Close Active ETFs likely to fuel growth in US market Author: Clare Dickinson ETFM| 07 Sep 2011 | 12:23 The growth of the US ETF market is likely to be driven by active ETFs as a number of potential new issuers are seeking to list them, according to the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange is seeing a healthy flow of issuers preparing to enter the US market. …