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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
Hedge funds are very risky investments. They invest in derivatives, employ unconventional trading strategies, and are usually greatly leveraged... All for the pursuit of extraordinary profits. A lot of hedge funds have come and gone and the survival rate is not encouraging. So why are they called "hedge" funds in the first place When we hear...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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Mothers, let your sons grow up to be hedge fund managers

2008-04-16 09:07:25 by HASH0x8b53ca0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...hedge fund manager according to this article in the NY Times today Several of the most successful managers made over 3 billion dollars each last year alone! That is not that their companies cleared 3 billion, they themselves made 3 billion. In fact to make it to the list of the top 25 hedge fund managers in terms of compensation you had to...
 
Tags: billion dollars, billion, dollars, wall street, hedge fund managers, million dollars, hedge fund business, kids, smarter kids
 
 
 
 
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Are fund managers really overcompensated?

2006-08-11 07:55:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...hedge fund) with colleagues. In the interview, the following quote struck me the most The hedge fund is another way for people to run money. It happens to be a way in which there are high fees charged. Eventually, the sheer size of the money going into hedge funds and the number of hedge funds that exist are going to inevitably result in a...
 
Tags: hedge funds cfa, hedge funds, managers, funds, hedge fund fees, forces, hedge fund, competition forces fees, fees
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...hedged by an appropriate portfolio of the shares provided volatility remained approximately constant, but it was effectively unhedgeable against a sharp change in volatility. If volatility in Korean shares had increased, there would be no problem; Credit Suisses multiple put option would be more valuable. There was, however, no effective way...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Just How Vulnerable Is Asia To The Current US Sub-Prime Crisis?

2007-08-31 07:59:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...hedge funds with nearly 100% exposure to the sector, the percentage of exposure to US Sub-Prime trough CDO's are not significant enough to dent the bank's earnings and value. Income streams of these banks are diversified enough to absorb the shocks. But that's in the ideal world, where current correlations regimes stay constant But we all...
 
Tags: banks, asian central banks, asian banks, exposure, crisis situation, sub-prime trough cdo, situation, risk management, blown crisis
 
 
 
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...hedged foreign exchange exposures, debt with embedded put options (unpredictable maturities), and implicit contingent liabilities Governments should also push for the development of their domestic currency capital markets. A developed capital market would mean that there are a lot of investors and variety of issued securities. Development of...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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Betting on the SOA Horse

2008-01-05 05:49:38 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...hedge their position by betting on EDA The main difference between real horse races and technology horse races is that you cant bet on the live horses after the gate opens. However, you can definately bet on the technology horses at any time, and the race goes on and on and on and on That is why technology horse racingis so exciting
 
Tags: horse, soa horse, technology horse races, races, cep, cep horse, technology horse racingis, real horse races, horse fast
 
 
 
 
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A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software

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2007-12-07 15:16:07 by HASH0x89688e0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...hedge the risks of having their releases detected by diversifying not just the domains portfolio, but the actual binaries themselves
 
Tags: domains portfolio, domains, portfolio, sample domains portfolio, fake security software, software, onerateld, content, exe
 
 
 
 
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Weather, Information Security, and Markets

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The author suggests a derivative market for hedging the risk involved with information security, based on the premise that protection from harm on any networked computer system will never be 100 percent. The key question is whether we can hedge risks that we can't prevent by technical means with financial instruments, such as derivatives
 
Tags: information security, key question, financial instruments, computer system, derivative market, author suggests, hedge risks, protection, percent
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security