Tag Archives: etf
Long/Short Models Doing Exactly What They Should Do
New York (HedgeCoVest.com) – The last three months have been anything but stellar for the overall stock market. If we look at a chart of the S&P 500 from April 28 through July 28, we see a number of peaks […]
Monthly Report Card for May: Healthcare Bounces Back
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – After setting the world on fire in the first quarter, the healthcare sector and the biotech sub-sector both took a little breather in April. During the first quarter, the Healthcare Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV) surged […]
Active vs. Passive vs. Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – As the prominence of low-cost mutual funds and ETFs has grown over the last 30 to 40 years, so has the debate over whether passive management is better than active management heated up. Study after study […]
Assets in ETFs to Surpass Hedge Funds This Quarter
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – This past week, research firm ETFGI released a report on the state of the ETF industry and projected that assets held in ETFs will exceed the assets held in the much older hedge fund industry. While […]
Biotech Rallies: Composite Models Take Advantage
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The biotech sector has been on an incredible run over the last four years and so far in 2015, the rally has continued. In the last four years, the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (NYSE: IBB) has gone […]
Bandon Flagship Strategy Gains Momentum, 5th Year Reached
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Bandon Capital Management has reached it’s 5th year for its hedge fund flagship investment strategy, ‘Directional Interest Rate Strategy’, (DIRS) producing annualized returns of +7.09% net of all fees, comparatively over the same time period […]
IndexIQ Launches Second Hedge Fund Replication ETF: MCRO
Seeking Alpha – The second hedge fund replication ETF from IndexIQ began trading on Tuesday (6/09/09). According to the press release, the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (MCRO) seeks to deliver risk-adjusted return characteristics similar to macro and emerging-market style […]
Grail to Launch Active Single-Manager ETFs
Seeking Alpha – Grail Advisors, LLC, the investment advisor that launched the Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value Fund (GVT) last month, has filed with the SEC to launch four additional ETFs. Grail notes that these four funds will be […]
How Is the New Hedge Fund Strategy ETF Doing?
Seeking Alpha – The innovators were out with guns blasting as they introduced an ETF that acts like a hedge fund. How has it been doing since the March 25 launch? This new ETF, established by Index IQ analyzes publicly […]
US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF
Financial Standard – US investors can now access a liquid and transparent hedge fund replication strategy after IndexIQ launched the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. The New York based firm’s exchange traded fund (ETF) […]
