All About Alpha – Rothstein Kass, an auditing and professional services firm with offices in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas and the Caymans, has released the results of its second annual survey of women in the alternative investment industry. The report, authored by Meredith Jones with ten contributors, notes a consistent pattern since at least 2008 of superior performance by hedge fund firms owned or managed by women.
In this crisis-ridden half decade, the WAI tracked close to the HFRX for the first year and a half, and then diverged to the upside. The HFRX fell below the S&P over the course of 2011.
