Jul 30, 2018 | Basics, Tools
Factor investing is a subset of computer driven quantitative investing and, technically speaking, has been around since the 1930’s when Benjamin Graham and David Dodd introduced the concept of value investing. Although value was only dubbed a...
Apr 15, 2014 | Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Tools
Email. How did we ever live without it? Quite well for thousands of years, thank you, but few of us in the workplace today can remember a time when it wasn’t our principal means of correspondence. It does seem to have legs. Back in the 1970s and ’80s,...
Mar 18, 2014 | Basics, Databases, Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Starting a Hedge Fund, Strategies, Technology, Tools
Counting the number of hedge funds in the world is like trying to follow the Major League pitching career of Octavio Dotel. It’s incredibly complicated and subject to sudden change. The former...
Dec 7, 2011 | Basics, Databases, Due Diligence, Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund, Technology, Tools
An earlier article on this site explained how you can use databases for marketing your hedge fund to investors who might be interested in your investment strategy. But capital introduction is a two-way street, so it’s just as important that you make it easy for...
Nov 30, 2011 | Databases, Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund, Technology, Tools
As you go about starting a hedge fund, one of the first decisions you’ll need to make is how you intend to go about the process of capital introduction, and one of the first things you’ll realize is that there’s no such thing as enough resources to...
Oct 24, 2011 | Technology, Tools
The Wall Street Journal reports that computerized, high-frequency trading is now making greater inroads into the hedge fund sector of currency derivatives. A growing number of hedge funds, plus large banks such as Credit Suisse Group AG and Royal Bank of Scotland...
