Dear Alpha Mail Subscriber:
AllAboutAlpha.com was launched nearly three years ago in response to a fundamental shift in portfolio management enabled by alternative investments such as hedge funds. Our objective was to encourage a dialogue about these important developments by building an online collection of research, analysis and opinion and to present it in an informal, easily-digestible "blog" format. Next month, we will be publishing our 1,000th original article.
As you know, we aim to provide unbiased education, advocacy and community and have worked closely over the years with any organization that shares these common goals.
Earlier this week, we announced that one such organization, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, has shown its commitment to these goals by acquiring AllAboutAlpha.com.
As regular readers are aware, the CAIA Association has been a long-time supporter AllAboutAlpha.com and shares our mission of education, advocacy and community. This announcement is a continuation of that support and will give AllAboutAlpha.com access to the resources, network and content it needs to fulfill this mission.
Founded in 2002, the CAIA Association has quickly become the global designation for alternative investment professionals, with approximately 3,000 members worldwide. The Amherst, Massachusetts - based Association has offices in London and Singapore, as well as an expanding number of chapters in major financial centers around the globe.
The CAIA Association is intent on maintaining AllAboutAlpha.com's editorial independence and on continuing to build AllAboutAlpha.com as a valuable research source and online community for alternative investment professionals.
To our regular readers, thank you for making a simple research blog into a global community of like-minded individuals. And to our new readers, we hope you join us as we continue on our mission to give you a front row seat to fundamental and irreversible changes that are impacting the asset management industry today.
So, without further ado, here is your front row seat to what generated the most interest at AllAboutAlpha.com last month:
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- A graphical look at hedge fund leverage: Our anthology of various leverage estimates generated record-breaking traffic.
- Study finds less than a third of HFs actually pocket mythical '2 and 20': Think "2 and 20" is the norm? Think again.
- Is Merger Arbitrage going the way of the dodo?: The Southern Right Whale isn't the only thing that risks being hunted out of existence - at least according to these academics.
- Pendulum swinging back to investable hedge fund indices for passive HF exposure: Not long ago, hedge fund replication was supplanting the "investible HF index". How quickly things change.
- Niccolo Machiavelli's Hedge Fund Secrets: Fooled by randomness? Oh, how Machiavellian...
- Monetizing hedge fund transparency: Guest contributor Mebane Faber, CAIA, shows that hedge fund transparency already exists - and that people are already making money from it.
- Reading the divergent hedge fund industry barometers: Our look at 2008's final scores reveals a $200 billion gulf between the results from various hedge fund indexes.
- Academic study breaks with pack on one of the most common assumptions about hedge fund returns: A new paper says that contrary to popular assumption, hedge funds don't produce returns by basically "selling volatility".
- After year from hell, both institutions and advisers are demanding flexibility to invest in alternatives: Some of America's largest pension plans band together to demand more access to alternative investments. Meanwhile, advisers demand the same.
- If hedge fund "overcrowding" was bad for returns, is recent "undercrowding" going to be good?: Is there a corollary to the oft-invoked "overcrowding" problem in hedge funds?
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AllAboutAlpha.com will be on the road in a few weeks at the annual GAIM Ops conference in Grand Cayman. In the past, you might be excused for thinking that hedge fund operational issues were a cure for insomnia. But after the year we saw in 2008, regulation, due diligence and risk management are now the glamour topics on the hedge fund conference circuit.
After that, we will be in San Francisco where I will be co-chairing the Global Absolute Return Congress ("Global ARC"). This will mark a return to the west coast for this event - now held twice a year. Lecturing mega-pensions, foundations and endowments this year will be Harry Markowitz, Myron Scholes, Andrew Lo and several other thought leaders from the intersection of finance and academia.
If you plan to be in either location, please seek us out and say hello.
Until next month,
Happy Alpha Hunting,
Christopher Holt, Editor
AllAboutAlpha.com
editor@allaboutalpha.com
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