{"id":23677,"date":"2011-07-25T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23677"},"modified":"2011-07-25T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:09:10","slug":"hedge-fund-to-use-game-theory-to-exploit-market-inefficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/hedge-fund-to-use-game-theory-to-exploit-market-inefficiencies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund AQR To Use Game Theory To Exploit Market Inefficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; $41 billion\u00a0Connecticut hedge fund manager AQR Capital Management has launched a reinsurance group to develop investment strategies that have low correlation with traditional markets and hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>The group will be run by David G. Kabiller and\u00a0game theorist\u00a0Andrew J. Sterge, PhD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AQR&#8217;s view of reinsurance conforms to the firm&#8217;s general approach to new investment frontiers.&#8221;\u00a0Kabiller said, &#8220;AQR undertakes extensive research, often in conjunction with major educational institutions, to analyze and calibrate discrete market inefficiencies that when aggregated, can be successfully exploited through dynamic exposure strategies.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/41B9JE4E9FL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23689\" title=\"41B9JE4E9FL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/41B9JE4E9FL-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/41B9JE4E9FL-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/41B9JE4E9FL.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AQR intends to publish a white paper\u00a0analyzing\u00a0its findings. \u00a0Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 20-year historical performance review of reinsurance portfolios reveals little significant correlation to global equities, US fixed income, high yield credit, commodities and hedge funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also looking back 20 years, a risk balanced portfolio of reinsurance spread across distinct territories and perils outperforms a &#8220;peak peril&#8221; portfolio that is concentrated in US hurricane, US earthquake, European windstorm and Japan earthquake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reinsurance strategy has a $250 million funding goal and will be capitalized by AQR and outside investors.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; $41 billion\u00a0Connecticut hedge fund manager AQR Capital Management has launched a reinsurance group to develop investment strategies that have low correlation with traditional markets and hedge funds. The group will be run by David G. Kabiller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23693,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions\/23693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}