Tag: alternative investment

The Hedge Fund industry is often perceived as unregulated. It is actually not the case. In fact, since the onset of the financial crisis,...

HedgeThink proudly presents the 2nd part of an epic interview with  Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA Managing Partner, Agecroft Partners. In this second part Mr. Steinbrugge elaborates...

This article has been written with the help of several sources including Wikipedia, the Financial Times, the Handbook of Hedge Funds by Francois-Serge Lhabitant,...

For the past few years Bitcoin has been transforming money online. Bitcoin has been very controversial, not least because it is unregulated, and its...

The Global Sigma Plus fund is at the top of hedge funds which have most consistently delivered strong and stable performance.  This finding is...

 "The world economy is locked on a course towards an emerging markets crisis and a renewed slowdown in the US, regardless of the Federal...

You have a high-potential idea with faith and passion to make a big success. All you need is to fund at different stages -from...

by Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA – Managing Partner, Agecroft PartnersReinsurance is one of the few hedge fund strategies that has almost no correlation to the...

Last month, Hedge funds had a testing time. While Hedge Fund index performed better than S&P 500 and Dow, it was down by 1.87 percent....

“Preqin’s mid-year surveys of hedge fund investors and managers show that performance is at the forefront of the minds of both groups. Investor dissatisfaction...

Investors Remain Positive on Private Equity Outlook“The institutional community remains confident in the ability of alternatives assets industry to help them meet their return...

The Directions for the Hedge Fund Industry - Opportunity(ies) in the face of adversity, innovation, regulation and Disruption! #Gaim2015Are Hedge Funds managing close to 5%...

General CostsTypically, a hedge fund startup costs are around $55,000 to $ 110,000. These costs include the investment incurred on branding, website development,...

How to Set Up a Hedge FundHedge funds have been a huge success for the most part ever since their conception. A large number...

The article is continuation of our series of articles from the book " The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager". The previous posts covered the recent...

Creating a Sustainable InfrastructureMany emerging fund managers enter the hedge fund business thinking that the most challenging thing they will have to do is...

The State of the Hedge Fund Industry - Opportunity(ies) In The Face Of Adversity 92% of #hedgefund assets controlled by 11% of managers http://bit.ly/1cZKkYf  via @HFMWeek...

We continue series of posts based on the book “The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager” that will be published in the near future.  Our first post...

Gaim - Global leading Alternative Investment Conference - was founded in 1994 by Informa PLCand soon became the world’s largest international alternative investment event, known for...

HedgeThink presents an interview with James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest. Artivest, is an innovative technology alternative investment platform that connects leading private equity...

New York is the indisputable capital of the hedge fund world. Despite pretensions to apotheosis from London and even Greenwich, Connecticut, the Empire city...

The total assets being managed by hedge funds will cross $3 trillion for the first time before the end of 2015 according to Deutsche...

After the financial crisis in 2008, the traditional lenders such as banks had to struggle hard to comply with new guidance from regulators on...

 'The Blackstone Group was little known outside Wall Street until two events in 2007 catapulted it onto the public stage: the lavish sixtieth birthday...

Of the five major alternative asset classes – private equity, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure and private debt – infrastructure is comparatively young and...