Tag: portfolio

A survey of 100 UK pension funds, institutional investors, and wealth managers from Downing LLP (Downing) reveals almost all say they will increase allocations...

Hedge funds are not widely famous as mutual funds. Nevertheless, they are on a continuous surge of popularity everywhere. Though, they share certain similarities...

Diversification is a tool for managing risk. If, for instance, you have one stock in your portfolio, you incur the risk that if your...

Tuition fees rise continually and the search for the most appropriate school is now harder than ever due to numerous learning institutions around us....

Many private equity firms are not placing enough focus on the quality of insurance cover in place at portfolio companies. That's the main finding...

You often hear people talking about the importance of creating a portfolio and diversifying your investments, but why is this the case? This is...

There are two key reasons why investors should be building up their portfolios now to grow their wealth, affirms the boss of one of...

As we saw in Part 1 of this series, ETFs have been very popular. Understanding the trends in this area is helpful in being...

Wealth management is an industry that is undergoing tremendous change, and there are a variety of influences that are driving this. According to Ed...

Who is a Robo Advisor Investment can be difficult and time consuming, as well as risky. Robo advisors offer a good option for investing, making...

Over the last few years approaches to wealth management have been changing. One such change is the introduction of robo advisors such as the...

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

The $3 trillion hedge fund industry has more than ten thousand hedge fund managers operating across the globe. But the HFI has remained highly...

Agecroft Partners predicts hedge fund industry assets to increase a quarter trillion dollars by summer of 2016! This is an update to an article I...

We continue series based on the book “The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager” started with Part 1 on The History of Hedge Fund Industry. Below...

The Venture Capital industry is moving towards the peak of 2000. Aggregate deal value of $64bn in H1 2015 creates a confidence that crossing...

It depends on the circumstances and the capital. In the United States, there is no minimum capital requirement, so a company can be formed...

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

Bridgewater manages $170bn in assets Bridgewater Associates with $170bn in assets under management is the largest hedge fund. Founded by Ray Dalio in 1975 out...

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

Our previous posts within the series of the book "The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager" have now given you enough information to understand what this...

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

In the previous post within the series on "The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager" we presented the Upside part of creation of Hedge Fund. As...

“The powerful hedge fund performance trends which emerged in late 2014 accelerated through 2015, with quantitative, trend following CTA’s posting uncorrelated gains across long...

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