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Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights François-Serge Lhabitant
Publisher: Wiley

Indeed, hedge fund fees are unquestionably the highest amongst active managers of marketable securities. Vilas Gadkari, founder of the Nilgai group of companies, was formerly the Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Salomon Brothers Asset Management from 1992-1999, a co-founder of Rubicon Hedge Fund and Partner at Brevan Howard Asset Mgt LLP In the late 70s, US investment banks were starting to use a lot of quantitative techniques and this attracted many analysts. And Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner . So, when Dan states something So, when hedge funds are playing against eastern central banks for one to remain structurally and long-term bearish on the price of gold is to believe that the Federal Reserve and its proxies can crush ad infinitum those on the other side of the trade. This analysis serves as a starting point in estimating the relative attractiveness of the investment. The capital markets are highly divided about the possibility of the Fed embarking on a new round of Quantitative Easing (read money printing). Fact: Hedge fund fees are high. One of the most vexing issues in the hedge fund industry is the relationship between growth in assets under management (AUMs) and future returns. Quantitative hedge fund analysis starts with taking the pulse of the fund by calculating some simple risk/reward measures. Fact: Some premium goods in life are considered worth their price by the buyers. I've been following Dan's work for years now and believe him to be both highly insightful as well as very conservative in his calls on the gold and silver markets. This article was first published in ISB Insight, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2013, pp48-50. Back in 2007 Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times wrote this article, claiming that hedge fund managers used a 'secret language' made up of 'technical-sounding explanations for losing billions of dollars of other people's money'.