Not exact matches
The news comes
about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York
hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a
position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.
Far from being perma - bearish, our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long
position about 52 % of the time in market cycles across history, encouraging a partially -
hedged stance
about 12 % of the time, fully -
hedged about 31 % of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today
about 5 % of the time.
About 90 % of our stock portfolio is
hedged by an offsetting short
position in the Russell 2000 Index and S&P 100 Index.
The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully
hedged, with the same «staggered strike»
position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at
about 17).
Our silver
position is less
about our view of silver and more of a macro
hedge.
Shouldn't we worry
about our fully -
hedged investment
position?
When JPMorgan first started to talk
about the botched trades — some of which are still open
positions they are trying to unwind — the bank said that they had grown out of
hedges aimed at protecting the bank against losses on the bank's large bond portfolio.
While the Strategic Growth Fund does have enough call options presently to reduce our
hedge by
about 40 % in the event of a substantial continued advance (they currently provide us with a 10 - 15 % exposure to market fluctuations), that
position still amounts to only
about 1 % of assets.
So the capital markets activity that you used to see around a lot of these
positions when they were held by trading firms, banks and other who were going to trade the assets and cared
about mark - to - market every quarter has greatly diminished — There's no
hedging.
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Presently, Strategic Growth Fund remains fully
hedged, with a staggered - strike
position that raises the strike prices of the Fund's index put options somewhat closer to market levels, representing
about 1 % of assets looking well into springtime.
Speculative investors have built big
positions in sugar futures, with
hedge funds owning one - quarter or
about $ US5.35 billion ($ 7.3 billion) of the New York sugar - futures market.
High - February 15th:
Hedging their bets - A Guardian report that Clegg would rule himself out of a coalition in the event of a hung parliament was quickly rebutted, leaving the
position clarified and enabling party activists to go
about their jobs with the
position clear in their heads.
Strategic Growth Fund remains fully
hedged, with a staggered - strike
position that raises the strike prices of our index put options somewhat closer to market levels, representing
about 1 % of assets in option premium looking out to springtime.
There are a lot of ways to go
about creating a
hedge against this
position but we're going to look at buying a Put option.
As long as some portion of an investor's portfolio is in foreign stocks, evidence suggests that those stocks should not be currency -
hedged for three reasons: (1) Currency unhedged portfolios are not much more volatile than currency -
hedged ones (and less volatile for US markets) and (2) Currency
hedging appears to add
about 1 % extra cost and (3) Some currency unhedged
positions reduce overall portfolio volatility.
Now that you know
about hedging, there are more and even better ways to
hedge your
positions.
After all, what
about a
hedge fund with hundreds of long and short
positions opening and closing simultaneously.
Market makers may or may not
hedge client
positions with other counterparties or in the underlying market (see «Questions to ask the CFD provider» for more
about «
hedging»).
Jay (MarketFolly): Philippe Laffont (
hedge fund Coatue Management) talked
about his concentrated portfolio approach which makes you think
about position sizing and focusing on your best ideas.
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