In 2013, the market for alternative investment exchange-traded products seems to revolve around one word. That word is “hedge.” Judging by their proportion of regulatory filings and launches last ...

Hedge funds. The words evoke mental images of pirates in designer suits … of backroom deals over cigars and single malt … or of Gordon Gekko's iconic line from the 1987 movie Wall Street: "Greed is ...

In this chapter, we argue that proper hedge fund investing requires a much more elaborate approach to investment decision-making than currently in use by most investors. The available data on hedge ...

Over the past decade, the number of private equity funds has doubled while the number of hedge funds has stayed flat. Yet the reasons for that shift aren’t entirely logical, according to Dan Rasmussen ...