Andrew Beer on the Hedge Fund Industry (Podcast)
Masters in Business
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How to Track Hedge Funds' Quarterly Returns Most Reliablely
The way that you can do it most reliably is actually by analyzing recent performance so looking at 13F filings doesn't give you much valuable information believe it or not even reading prime brokerage reports isn't terribly helpful. The idea of a pool of 40 hedge funds is to reverse engineer what they're doing based on how broader asset classes are performing. So if you take a year like last year the equity long short space overall was up 17 and a half let's say so really a remarkably good year for hedge funds.
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