Should Fundamental Investors Own Managed Futures Today?20190909174403
Should Fundamental Investors Own Managed Futures Today?
Like most of you, I am a fundamental investor at heart. I started my career in the hedge fund business working for famed value investor Seth Klarman (whose book, Margin of Safety, is treasured by those lucky enough to have a copy). The lessons of intrinsic value stuck. I am also a believer that mark...
Rethinking Managed Futures in a Low Fee World20190708012104
Rethinking Managed Futures in a Low Fee World
Managed futures as a strategy (before high hedge fund fees) has delivered strong performance since 2000 – higher returns than equities with far lower volatility. As a diversifier, managed futures offer more “bang for the buck” than bonds, commodities and REITS. These results are obscured by excessiv...
The practitioner’s guide to investing in managed futures20190619052608
The practitioner’s guide to investing in managed futures
Plenty of white papers extoll the diversification benefits of investing in managed futures strategies. Those papers principally highlight long-term statistical benefits: low correlation to traditional asset classes and strong historical performance during down equity markets. Add managed futures ...
Generation two liquid alternatives20180912213647
Generation two liquid alternatives
Executive Summary Generation One liquid alternatives suffered from three issues: poor performance, high fees and/or unpredictable results. Dissatisfaction today reflects in part a disconnect between the asset allocation/diversification objective and how funds were added to retail investor portfoli...
Six Reasons To Replicate Hedge Funds20180611110106
Six Reasons To Replicate Hedge Funds
In this recent article in AlphaWeek, Beachhead Capital's Andrew Beer makes the case for hedge fund replication and describes how replication strategies can bring meaningful value to most investors' portfolios.Link to article: Six Reasons to Replicate Hedge Funds...
NYSSA Keynote Presentation: Emerging Hedge Funds: Today versus 200620161013154035
NYSSA Keynote Presentation: Emerging Hedge Funds: Today versus 2006
In his keynote address to the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), Andrew Beer shared his views on launching a hedge fund in today’s environment and discussed the many ways in which the process changed over the last decade.This presentation was very well received and we suspect that it wil...
The Trouble with Alpha: Part I20160623124038
The Trouble with Alpha: Part I
Investors equate “alpha” to outperformance. A high alpha fund presumably delivers substantial excess returns relative to its benchmark. True alpha is short-hand for manager skill. Statistically, alpha simply is the result of a linear regression between two return streams. The regression finds the ...
The Rise of Populism and the Fall of Economies20160616163624
The Rise of Populism and the Fall of Economies
Recent election cycles in the U.S. and Europe have seen the ascendance of political parties whose platforms are significantly shaped by populist initiatives. Underlining many such initiatives is a preoccupation with immigration. Earlier today the Wall Street Journal reported that 40% of Brexit suppo...
Why a ‘Replication’ Strategy Trumps Liquid Alt Funds20160614134722
Why a ‘Replication’ Strategy Trumps Liquid Alt Funds
Catch Andrew Beer interviewed on TheStreet.The liquid alternatives movement is trying to bring hedge fund strategies to ordinary investors. Unfortunately, performance has been subpar for the majority of liquid alternative funds and the fees are still relatively high compared to the average mutual fu...
Brexit in 10 Days?20160613134124
Brexit in 10 Days?
A new poll from the Bruges Group gives the Leave camp a 19 point lead over Remain. According to the poll, 52% of respondents supported a Brexit, while only 33% wished to remain in the EU and 15% were undecided. A decisive victory for Leave is within grasp; even if all of the undecided Britons voted ...