An Example of the Perils of Tactical Asset Allocation

Reading through the Management Discussion of Fund Performance for the Accumulus Talisman Fund reveals a textbook example of a major problem with tactical asset allocation: your call might eventually prove to be the right one but the market ... index futures contracts to freeze the Fund’s asset value until we could determine whether [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:20:43

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Korea's Pension Fund to Cut Stock Investment in 2009

South Korea's National Pension Service, the nation's biggest investor with 225 trillion won ($176 billion) ... conditions,'' said Lee Jin Woo, a fund manager at KTB Asset Management Co. in Seoul, which oversees ... .'' The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has slumped 45 percent in 2008, the worst annual performance in its two-decade [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 07:04:56

Hedge fund industry reality

The tide has gone out for hedge funds.  Many have indicated that they "feel"  X% of the hedge fund industry will go under ... with justifying a 1-2% management fee and 15-44% performance fee, it has become more compensation class than asset class and has been for years for many.  True sustainable alpha is rare.  Here are [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:51:32

Spime Watch: Vibration Energy Harvesting

http://www.perpetuum.co.uk/home.php?page_id=1 (((Put it next to a rattling piece of badly tuned machinery and it turns the clatter into current ... for many industrial applications; such as Asset Tracking & Management, Process Monitoring, Plant ... to power sensors, micro processors and RF systems, enabling critical performance data [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 10:39:48

Reality of the Hedge Fund Industry in 2009

The tide has gone out for hedge funds. Many have indicated that they "feel" X% of the hedge fund industry will go under ... with justifying a 1-2% management fee and 15-44% performance fee, it has become more compensation class than asset class and has been for years for many. True, sustainable alpha is rare. Here are some [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:03:22

The mob is my broker: Cake launching crowdsourced stock fund

The stock tracking and community site Cake Financial is getting some interesting new features, including its first branded financial instrument, ... management services, "a lot is wasted." He's built a service that identifies the stock picks ... stocks that are performing better than yours, in users' accounts with similar asset allocation [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 22:19:00

Bulging Side Pockets: Turning Hedge Funds into Private Equity Funds?

Many hedge funds are in trouble. Whether due to bad security selection, issues that were once considered liquid that now "trade by appointment" ... . This has placed tremendous pressure on managers who are not only depressed to see management fees drop ... . These assets generally attract management fees but not performance fees until sold. The more assets [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 20:26:12

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