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...compiled by research firm Kepler Absolute Hedge....
...Its flagship fund was down 2.1 per cent while its Alpha Strategies fund was up 2.4 per cent, according to people who have seen the figures....
...That will face a major test as Carlyle now raises new buyout funds in Europe and Asia where, as in the US, the predecessor funds have yet to earn stellar returns....
...As the chart below from Absolute Strategy Research shows, central bank gold reserves in the Brics+ bloc were already rising before the Ukraine war....
...The demise of Abrdn’s Global Absolute Returns Strategy (Gars) marks an ignominious end for a once-successful fund that turned sour....
...The transaction allowed Quiet Capital LPs to sell half or all of their stake in the fund to new institutional investors at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Blackstone Strategic Partners — both secondary...
...Japanese department store workers — the performers of functions that include welcoming customers into the lifts and maintaining absolute spotless surfaces — have not held a full-day strike at a large outlet...
...specialised funds....
...Goldman Sachs analysts noted that while hedge funds did not necessarily aim to beat the S&P 500, last year’s returns were also “weak on an absolute basis”....
...But banks, brokers, exchanges, and market-data vendors should remember that, with interest rates at 5 per cent, the hurdle rate for absolute-return businesses like hedge funds is much higher....
...The classic statement of this view of Berkshire is a 2013 article from AQR, called “Buffett’s Alpha”....
...artificially higher Sharpe ratios, alphas, and top-line returns, such as IRRs, to their trustees or other overseers....
...PSSI said it had “an absolute company-wide prohibition” against employing anyone under 18 and would defend itself “vigorously” in the case....
...“But most of these funds did not provide the crisis alpha that many investors expected in March.”...
...Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater took a hit with its flagship Pure Alpha fund down more than 10 per cent, even as its All Weather fund has recorded gains....
...For some people, it’s enough:https://twitter.com/Tree_of_Alpha/status/1536271645803003905 Recent game data are missing, so we can’t tell how recently he played....
...Here’s their fed funds chart, for example: Bank stocks did well in absolute terms when the Federal Reserve increased rates in the last two cycles....
...This month Baillie Gifford cut its annual fee on the BG UK Alpha Fund from 0.55 per cent to 0.47 per cent and noted that this marks “the 15th occasion Baillie Gifford has reduced fees across one or more...
...The firm’s institutional Diversified Alpha fund returned 4.7 per cent....
...Odey’s James Hanbury has gained 7.3 per cent in his LF Brook Absolute Return fund, helped by positions in stocks such as pub group JD Wetherspoon and Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group....
...Elliott Management, the activist hedge fund that bought a $3.2bn stake in AT&T in 2019, has slammed the purchase of DirecTV, arguing AT&T bought “at the absolute peak of the linear TV market”....
...It looks like a uniform (blazer, shirt, khakis, boat shoes), but is invariably the absolute lushest and most expensive version thereof (Cucinelli, Charvet, Loro Piana etc)....
...the present generation of bosses to in effect sell off rights to future income breaks the sacred principle that buyout professionals only “eat what they kill”, dulling the impulse to generate elusive “alpha...
...In 2011, Kentucky’s pension system invested in hedge funds operated by Blackstone and KKR, as part of what one official called an “absolute return strategy” that was supposed to reduce risk and deliver annual...
...While Tudor, Moore, Brevan Howard and Caxton have delivered so far in 2020, the flagship “Pure Alpha” fund at Bridgewater was down almost 14 per cent for the year through June, according to people familiar...
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