{"id":10335,"date":"2009-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"a-novel-approach-to-monitoring-hedge-fund-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/a-novel-approach-to-monitoring-hedge-fund-returns.html","title":{"rendered":"A Novel Approach to Monitoring Hedge Fund Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seekingalpha.com &#8211; In just about every action movie and TV show these days there is at least one scene where the hero asks one of his or her techies to &ldquo;sharpen&rdquo; a satellite image. Suddenly, what looked like a fuzzy bunch of pixelated squares takes on the form of someone&rsquo;s face, a car, or some kind of mobile rocket launcher. We&rsquo;re not graphic imaging specialists. But to us, it looks kind of outlandish that someone could take a very small amount of information (a few pixels) and divine the underlying image in fantastic detail.<\/p>\n<p>But in a way, that&rsquo;s exactly what Daniel Li &amp; Michael Markov (of quantitative investment software vendor Markov Processes) and Russ Wermers of the University of Maryland have done in a paper released last month called &ldquo;Monitoring Daily Hedge Fund Performance When Only Monthly Data is Available.&rdquo;  Their trick is to leverage another kind of technology: <em>hedge fund replication<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/130617-a-novel-approach-to-monitoring-hedge-fund-returns\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seekingalpha.com &#8211; In just about every action movie and TV show these days there is at least one scene where the hero asks one of his or her techies to &ldquo;sharpen&rdquo; a satellite image. Suddenly, what looked like a fuzzy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2410,10230,10232,4526,10243,10235,10234,10236,3226,10240,10231,10229,10237,10238,10241,10239,10233,10242],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-amp","tag-daniel-li","tag-graphic-imaging","tag-hedge-fund-performance","tag-hero","tag-investment-software","tag-kind-of-technology","tag-markov","tag-quantitative-investment","tag-replication","tag-rocket-launcher","tag-russ-wermers","tag-satellite-image","tag-software-vendor","tag-squares","tag-techies","tag-underlying-image","tag-university-of-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}