Strategy
The challenges in modelling hedge fund returns
academic paper
Why eclectic excellence is the key unlocking 3C's success
3C has an interesting range of funds and is launching into another based on options and futures trading, so bringing its investors returns from private equity, through to a Japanese product focused on the China growth story, as David Walker reports
The fund of hedge fund paper chase
hedge fund administration
The aspects of uniformity
academic paper
Taking the inside track
research
Brokering with a personalised approach
family offices and derivatives
European managers "never had it so good"
A confluence of positive factors has left the European long/short space practically bulging with opportunity
A family dilemma
family offices
Keeping it in the family
Fohfs and family offices
More than painting by numbers
correlation
The view from the top
asset allocation
Lovely weather for it, what?
family office luncheon buffet snack
The Guarded State
New Jersey's pension fund, under the direction of Orin Kramer, is implementing a relatively modest allocation to hedge funds, yet even that was too much for some trustees in a fund that had never used an outside manager before, as Phyllis Feinberg reports
Growth by acquisition likely for Tribeca
Citigroup thought of buying Amaranth and is still looking to expand, as Tribeca's Dean Barr told Phyllis Feinberg in New York
Europe bonds as futures derivatives mature
instruments - bond index futures
Feeling the liquidity pinch? Then move over to the Dark side
dark liquidity
Safeguarding buyout-investment IRR levels through operational change
financial engineering
Tops down as convertibles change gear?
Convertible arbitrage's comeback in 2006 was one of the year's hedge fund highlights. Those left standing after the cull of 2005 might now have some room to breathe, but what is in the air, and which way is it blowing?