All articles by Mathieu Vaissié – Page 2

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    Risk exposure stalls growth

    June 2005 (Magazine)

    As can be seen from table 1, the main hedge fund strategies all fell short of their long-term average performance in March. Three of the five strategies, namely convertible arbitrage, long/short equity and event driven, even posted negative returns. These disappointing returns might be explained by the exposure of hedge ...

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    Fund strategies' mixed results

    May 2005 (Magazine)

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    Only one strategy makes it

    April 2005 (Magazine)

    As can be seen from table 1, all hedge fund strategies fell short of their long-term average performance in January. Three out of five strategies even posted negative returns. These poor results, which are in sharp contrast to the good performance of Q4 2004, were mainly due to an unfavourable ...

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    Hedge strategies still dominant

    March 2005 (Magazine)

    December was globally a good month for hedge fund strategies, especially when compared to the disappointing performance in 2004 as a whole. But as shown in table 1, the performance of the different strategies was mixed in December. While the convertible arbitrage and CTA global strategies fell short of their ...