Comments on: With Risk Comes Reward, And Risk http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: BackOfficeMonkey http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-136015 BackOfficeMonkey Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:54:35 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html#comment-136015 Who saids all hedge funds are the same? Why would these two Bear Stearns Hedge funds whom were heavy invested in the "equity tranches" of CDOs have the same risk structure as a long short equity fund that are market neutral? They don't. More often then not these hedge funds are investing in the very same underlying asset classes as regular old boring mutual funds except they slice and dice risk differently. One of the challenges in the investment management industry is to replicate popular hedge fund strategies passively. Oddly enough they are trying to package what's ment to be alpha as another beta source. - BOM Who saids all hedge funds are the same?

Why would these two Bear Stearns Hedge funds whom were heavy invested in the “equity tranches” of CDOs have the same risk structure as a long short equity fund that are market neutral? They don’t.

More often then not these hedge funds are investing in the very same underlying asset classes as regular old boring mutual funds except they slice and dice risk differently.

One of the challenges in the investment management industry is to replicate popular hedge fund strategies passively. Oddly enough they are trying to package what’s ment to be alpha as another beta source.

- BOM

]]> By: Lord http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-135791 Lord Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:27:58 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html#comment-135791 SEC just voted to increase it to $2.5MM I believe. SEC just voted to increase it to $2.5MM I believe.

]]> By: jim http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-135759 jim Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:45:14 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html#comment-135759 shucks, i was so close shucks, i was so close

]]> By: AndyM http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html/comment-page-1#comment-135746 AndyM Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:05:49 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/with-risk-comes-reward-and-risk.html#comment-135746 The accredited investor net worth excludes the primary residence. The accredited investor net worth excludes the primary residence.

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