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Convergence trade is a trading strategy consisting of two positions: buying one asset forward—i.e., for delivery in future (going long the asset)—and selling a similar asset forward (going short the asset) for a higher price, in the expectation that by the time the assets must be delivered, the prices will have become closer to equal (will have converged), and thus one profits by the ...
Form 13F provides position-level disclosure of all institutional investment managers with more than $100m in assets under management with relevant long US holdings. All US-listed equity securities (including ETFs) in the manager’s portfolio are included and detailed according to the number of shares, the ticker, the issuer name, etc.
Under the assumption of normality of returns, an active risk of x per cent would mean that approximately 2/3 of the portfolio's active returns (one standard deviation from the mean) can be expected to fall between +x and -x per cent of the mean excess return and about 95% of the portfolio's active returns (two standard deviations from the mean) can be expected to fall between +2x and -2x per ...
At Q2's end, a total of 53 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -13% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 63 hedge funds held shares or ...
Stephen Wu transitioned from tech to finance, starting a hedge fund with $10 million. Wu's experience at Amazon and Microsoft taught him efficiency and managing technical debt. He said trading is ...
Hedge funds can deliver above-average returns to investors who are comfortable taking more risk in their portfolios. Aside from the fact that they don’t always deliver, there’s just one catch ...
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk. Among these portfolio techniques are short selling and the use of leverage and derivative instruments. [1]
The report found that the cause was a single sale of $4.1 billion in futures contracts by a mutual fund, identified as Waddell & Reed Financial, in an aggressive attempt to hedge its investment position. [80] [81] The joint report also found that "high-frequency traders quickly magnified the impact of the mutual fund's selling."