Hugh Hendry of Eclectica Asset Management spoke at the London School of Economics Alternative Investments Conference earlier this year (see full original video here http://vimeo.com/29879763).read more…Read
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A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance.These selloffs occurred in response to falling stock values, the study found.  Hedge fund investors withdrew almost three times as much of the money they invested as compared to mutual fund investors.As a result, the total returns of mutual funds were much worse during the crisis than were those of hedge funds.That means ordinary investors – who are more likely to own mutual funds –...
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New research by Oxford University and Duke University suggests that voluntary disclosures by hedge funds about their monthly investment performance are unreliable. The researchers tracked changes to statements of historical performance of over 18,000 hedge funds recorded in publicly available hedge fund databases, at different points in time between 2007 and 2011. They found that as many as 40 per cent of funds (around 7,000 individual funds) revised their previously reported performance, sometimes many years later, with more than a fifth of funds later changing a previous monthly return by...
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