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Overlay Uses 101 Separation of alpha and beta appears to be the mantra du jour in portfolio management. Here's how overlays fit in.   |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2007
Dees Stribling |
The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Jeff Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: The Third Source of Returns The role of beta in hedge fund returns provides investors with new and interesting opportunities, particularly in light of the prevailing wisdom that fuels the drive toward alpha-beta separation and risk-budgeting allocation methodologies. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 15, 2006
Larry Tabb |
Strolling With My Alpha How does portable alpha impact the investment management business? This strategy turns portfolio managers into asset allocators. Instead of picking stocks, or companies, they pick inexpensive indices and choose expensive hedge funds. |
Investment Advisor
November 2005
Jeff Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: The Roles of Alpha and Beta Acknowledging the elusive nature of alpha is critical to hedge fund and absolute return investors, particularly because most think of alpha as the primary (if not the exclusive) source of hedge fund returns. But this may be an erroneous assumption. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Marshall Eckblad |
Hedge Funds Behind the Curtain New research shows the theoretical underpinning of a potential future line of mutual funds that will offer various hedge fund strategies to average investors. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2006
Joan Warner |
The Case For Portable ALPHA As international markets become more correlated, the need for financial advisers and money managers to access greater diversification -- while hedging risk -- could make this strategy investing's next hot model. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Angel Ubide |
Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2007
David E. Adler |
High Net Worth: Alpha-Beta Investing This institutional strategy is starting to make inroads among high-net-worth managers. |
Financial Advisor
March 2006
Brad Zigler |
What Price Active Management? When stock picking is distilled from within a mutual fund, the true cost of active management bubbles to the surface. |
Investment Advisor
October 2005
Joseph & Kurdas |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Portable Alpha Investing Institutions seeking better risk-adjusted returns are increasingly employing a portable alpha approach, in some cases using this method to invest with multistrategy hedge fund managers through funds of funds. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Joseph & Kurdas |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: The Search for Portable Returns With the portable approach, the search for top-performing managers as a source of alpha is separate from the desire to get market return on an asset class, the beta. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Jeff Joseph |
The Year in Hedge Funds In a year marked by high volatility in the financial markets, the 10 strategies tracked by the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed major global equity indexes and experienced lower volatility than the overall markets. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2009
Tim Knepp |
Alternative Medicine: Separating Beta from Alpha Retirement portfolios have been subject to significant stress and this, combined with a daunting global economic outlook, has many investors considering alternative strategies in an effort to shore up their traditional investment allocations. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2004
Ilana Polyak |
Hedging Their Bets Hedge funds increasingly look to REITs, but should investors look at hedge funds? |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha Goes Abroad Excess returns turn up in overseas large-cap value funds. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2008
Allen Kenney |
Riding Recent REIT Volatility: Wild Ride REITs have demonstrated increased volatility lately, but is it here to stay? |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Dan Wheeler |
Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Numerology: Turnaround for Hedge Funds Following the worst year ever for hedge fund performance, so far 2009 is shaping up as quite a good one. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 20, 2006
Ann Cullen |
When Hedge Funds Meet Private Equity Seeking greater returns, hedge fund managers are increasing investments in private equity opportunities such as real estate and non-public companies, leading some industry observers to predict a convergence between the two. |
Investment Advisor
September 2005
Clair & Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Hedge Fund Indexes Grow up Mirroring the growth of the hedge fund industry, hedge fund indexing has taken off in recent years, driven by investor demand for transparent benchmarks and the index providers' recognition that trusted indexes can, if carefully constructed and marketed, attract their own assets. |
Registered Rep.
June 15, 2009
Kristen French |
Hedge Funds Bruised, But New Retail Products Abound So far this year, investors and advisors seem to have put the brakes on new hedge fund investments. |
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Gene Swanzey |
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
D. Quinn Mills |
The Problem with Hedge Funds Hedge funds are the New Big Thing -- and that's bad for the average investor, says professor D. Quinn Mills. An excerpt from Wheel, Deal, and Steal. |
Registered Rep.
May 27, 2015
Debbie Carlson |
REITs and Rates Some investors see the recent falloff in REITs -- down 1.43 percent year-to-date, and down 5.9 percent in April alone, according to the MSCI U.S. REIT index -- as a natural retrenchment. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Hedge Fund Backlash Investors deserted hedge funds in droves in 2008, angered by the perceived arrogance of managers who weren't holding up to their promises. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2011
Stephen Roseman |
Hedge Fund Myths Mean Missed Opportunities Misperceptions about what hedge funds do need to be set straight. Individuals won't be able to make educated investment decisions about them unless they understand what they are -- and are not. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2011
Joseph A. Tomlinson |
Send in the Clones The introduction of low-cost clone hedge funds, constructed from exchange-traded funds by using quantitative investing techniques, may let Main Street enjoy hedge fund-like results. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Elizabeth Wine |
Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
BusinessWeek
February 26, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Hedge Funds Jump Into Private Equity Eager to boost performance, hedge funds are entering the market at a risky moment. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Sydney LeBlanc |
Investment Utopia With index investing used as a foundation, numerous strategies are being employed to help generate returns that may beat the market while keeping costs low and allowing investors to sleep at night. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha and Beta Can a portfolio consisting entirely of beta-producing elements produce alpha? The answer is clearly yes. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha in the Box The search for Shangri-La pales in comparison to the quest for funds that consistently deliver high alpha. The fundamental question for financial advisors: Does alpha differ across the nine Morningstar style boxes? |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 26, 2003 |
The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
It's All Greek to Me Finance's unique combination of mathematical and social sciences makes the field a linguistic battleground among academics. As ways to express financial concepts, alpha and beta are relatively simple. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha Up and Down If you select mutual funds on the basis of their alpha, you may want to check how consistent those alphas really are. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
J. Joseph & J. Bunge |
Hedge Funds Recover Quicker A report from Credit Suisse Index Co. shows that after market-shaking events, such as the recent subprime turmoil, hedge funds remain less volatile and better able to perform than other asset classes. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2008
Jane Li |
What is Exotic Beta? Exotic beta is essentially a practical, no-nonsense concept that financial planners can use to benefit the portfolios of everyday investors, not just the portfolios of the ultra-wealthy. Read on for more. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Hedge Funds Redux Despite a midsummer month's nightmare, hedge funds are still pointing to successful records and raking in money. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2011
Lipman & Esterhuizen |
Investing 101: Hedge Funds Love These 4 Low Beta Stocks Hedge funds feel these names can offer security, and perhaps profit, in the current market. Do you agree? |
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Marla Brill |
Hedging Your Bets A growing group of market-neutral mutual funds have distilled the essence of hedge fund investing into a more regulated, liquid and accessible format. |
BusinessWeek
July 9, 2007 |
In Defense Of Hedge Funds A high-net-worth investment adviser takes on those who say the glory days of hedge fund investment opportunities are over. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Anne Tergesen |
Time To Hedge On Hedge Funds? New research shows that returns are sliding, and some don't help you diversify. |
Registered Rep.
May 16, 2011
Brad Zigler |
Paying Too Much For Alpha? A "two-and-twenty" arrangement -- two percent annual management fee and 20 percent of new profits -- is commonly charged by the hedgies. Pretty expensive stuff, that alpha. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2006
John Finneran |
Hedge Fund Wizards Money managers cast spells over the market -- and reap huge rewards. Hedge funds operate in a haze. Penetrating how they earn returns and take risks is tough, but is a good exercise for investors. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Dave Tsujimoto |
In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2011
Suzanne McGee |
Chasing Alpha With investment strategists and pundits predicting a long period of sluggish returns that may not make it out of the single digits, there is every reason for advisors to intensify their quest for alpha. But alpha is both hard to define and harder to find. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2011
Jim Royal |
Hidden Stocks That Can Beat the Pros Look toward small-cap stocks for long-term outperformance. |
