Sentences with phrase «hedge fund indexes»

From 2009 to 2012, a simple, low - fee mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds far outperformed hedge fund indexes.

How well do mutual funds and exchange - traded funds (ETF) designed to track hedge fund indexes work?

(ETF Trends: Mar 24, 2016) ETF Trends» Max Chen said ETFs that track alternative strategies or replicate hedge fund strategies are starting to outperform the traditional hedge funds they are attempting to mimic, citing a Goldman Sachs study of liquid alternatives and hedge fund indexes.

According to Credit Suisse, CTA funds — which concentrate on futures — were down 2.8 % in 2017 through the end of July, while Hedge Fund Research's commodity hedge fund index was down 0.9 % through the end of July.

By comparison, the HFRI hedge fund index fell 1.87 percent for August — paring year - to - date gains to just 0.2 percent.

The Manager attempts to deliver consistent returns in excess of the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a transparent, registered fund format consistent with monthly dividends.

Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance of these alternative investments from the prior two years.

The HFRI Global Hedge Fund Index is designed to be representative of the overall composition of the hedge - fund universe reporting to Hedge Fund Research Inc. database.

The manager attempts to exceed the return of the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a transparent, registered fund format with monthly dividends.

The manager attempts to exceed the return of the Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index in a transparent, registered fund format with monthly dividends.

The Manager attempts to deliver consistent returns in excess of the Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a transparent, registered fund format with consistent monthly dividends.

The Adviser attempts to deliver consistent returns in excess of the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a transparent, registered fund format with consistent monthly dividends.

By comparison, a global hedge fund index, the HFRX, had a 1.1 percent loss during that time.

Barclay's 17 hedge fund indices, 8 managed futures indices, and 7 UCITS indices are universally recognized as alternative investment performance benchmarks and are utilized by investment professionals around the globe.

The Manager attempts to deliver consistent returns in excess of the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a [more] transparent, registered fund format consistent with monthly dividends.

Stocks are represented by S&P 500, bonds by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and managed futures by the Credit Suisse Managed Futures Hedge Fund Index.

The balanced 60/40 mix and the hedge fund index did better than the S&P 500 with K - ratios of 45.86 and 58.00, respectively, but are well short of the DRS Select Composite's K - ratio of 119.23.

Typical is the Horizons Morningstar Hedge Fund Index ETF (HHF / TSX), advised by Fiera Capital Corp., which tracks a Morningstar index of 600 to 800 hedge funds.

Stocks are represented by the S&P 500, bonds by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and managed futures by the Credit Suisse Managed Futures Hedge Fund Index (inception 10/31/1999).

This happens to be the goal of many hedge funds and for that reason a relevant benchmark for me is the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index (http://www.hennesseegroup.com/indices/returns/year/2010.html).

The Manager attempts to deliver consistent returns in excess of the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund indices in a transparent, registered fund format consistent with monthly dividends.

Alternatives are represented by the Credit Suisse Multi-Strategy Index, a subset of the Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index that measures the aggregate performance of multi-strategy funds.

The Credit Suisse Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund Index is a subset of the Credit Suisse Hedge Fund IndexSM that measures the aggregate performance of multi-strategy funds.

We use two benchmarks, SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) and the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index (HFI).

Many of their competitors in the «multi-alternative» category pursue bizarre and opaque strategies («hedge fund index replicant» strategies using derivatives) where the managers mostly say «trust us» and «pay us.»

But I do know that as of end - Aug (Sep figures won't be available for a few weeks yet), the Barclay Hedge Fund Index was only showing a YTD return of +4.2 %.

In comparison, HFR's fund of hedge funds index fell 21.37 % in 2008 and regained only 11.47 % in 2009.

There's a wide variety of hedge fund indices out there, but I see Bloomberg's one of the first to report a FY - 2013 performance of +7.4 %.

(Coincidently, the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index fell by the same amount.)

The ETF does not invest, directly or indirectly, in the constituent hedge funds comprising the Morningstar broad hedge fund index.

Notes: U.S. stocks represented by Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index through April 2005, MSCI US Broad Market Index through June 2013 and CRSP US Total Market Index thereafter; emerging markets stocks are represented by MSCI Emerging Markets Index; REITs by FTSE NAREIT Equity REIT Index; dividend stocks by Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index; commodities by S&P GSCI Commodity Index; high yield bonds by Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index; emerging markets bonds by Bloomberg Barclays EM USD Aggregate Index; investment - grade corporate bonds by Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Index; U.S. Treasury bonds by Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Bond Index; Hedge fund index by HFRI fund - weighted total return Index and international bonds by Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate ex-USD Bond Index.

The investment objective of Horizons Morningstar Hedge Fund Index ETF is unaffected and the product will continue to seek investment results that replicate the performance of the Morningstar broad hedge fund index hedged to the Canadian dollar.

The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund index, encompassing nearly 8,000 [hedge] funds, produced a 3.3 % annualized gain over this period, versus 3.4 % for the Wilshire 5000 Total Market index, which reflects all U.S. stocks, including dividends.

Barclay's 17 hedge fund indices, 8 managed futures indices, and 7 UCITS indices are universally recognized as alternative investment performance benchmarks and are utilized by investment professionals around the globe.

Not exact matches

«The gap for ETFs vs. TIFs (as Bogle calls traditional index funds) is no doubt wider, given that the ETF investor base is much different and the use cases for ETFs are far more varied (hedging, shorting, arb trades, etc.) than those for TIFs (buy, hold, rebalance).

Warren Buffett bet hedge funds could not beat S&P index funds over a decade, and it's looking like he was right.

The index fund is already so far ahead of the hedge funds that its victory is assured.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

Warren Buffett, in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, announced that he was on his way to winning this year the $ 1 million bet he made in 2007: that his investment in an S&P 500 index fund would outperform five hedge funds over a decade.

The stocks that hedge funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).

The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index is a global, equal - weighted index of over 2,000 single - manager funds that report to the HFR (Hedge Fund Research) dataIndex is a global, equal - weighted index of over 2,000 single - manager funds that report to the HFR (Hedge Fund Research) dataindex of over 2,000 single - manager funds that report to the HFR (Hedge Fund Research) database.

Over that period the S&P 500 returned 75 %, but iShares S&P 500 Index Fund CAD Hedged (TSX: XSP) returned almost 10 percentage points less.

As a long - time advocate of passive investing in low - fee index funds (in fact, he's on his way to win a million - dollar bet on an index fund), Buffett also has some strong opinions on the value of high - fee investment structures like hedge funds and mutual funds.

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Those conditions could allow hedge funds to outperform broader market indices.

Hedge funds have produced positive results in each of the past 14 months, representing a record number of consecutive months of positive returns for the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index.

The HFRI Indices are based on information self - reported by hedge fund managers that decide, on their own, at any time, whether or not they want to provide, or continue to provide, information to HFR Asset Management, LLC (HFR).

These participants constantly buy what they wish they had bought and sell what they are about to need (like those investors selling hedge funds today to chase the hot returns that index funds achieved over the past five years).

iShares S&P ® / TSX ® 60 Index Fund («XIU»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index Fund («XIC»), iShares S&P / TSX Completion Index Fund («XMD»), iShares S&P / TSX SmallCap Index Fund («XCS»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Energy Index Fund («XEG»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Financials Index Fund («XFN»), iShares S&P / TSX Global Gold Index Fund («XGD»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Information Technology Index Fund («XIT»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped REIT Index Fund («XRE»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Materials Index Fund («XMA»), iShares Diversified Monthly Income Fund («XTR»), iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSP»), iShares Jantzi Social Index Fund («XEN»), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund («XDV»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Growth Index Fund («XCG»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Value Index Fund («XCV»), iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund («XBB»), iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund («XSB»), iShares DEX Real Return Bond Index Fund («XRB»), iShares DEX Long Term Bond Index Fund («XLB»), iShares DEX All Government Bond Index Fund («XGB»), and iShares DEX All Corporate Bond Index Fund («XCB»), iShares MSCI EAFE ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIN»), iShares Russell 2000 ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSU»), iShares Conservative Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XCR»), iShares Growth Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XGR»), iShares Global Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XGC»), iShares Alternatives Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XAL»), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund («XEM») and iShares MSCI World Index Fund («XWD»), iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund («XBZ»), iShares China Index Fund («XCH»), iShares S&P CNX Nifty India Index Fund («XID»), iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund («XLA»), iShares U.S. High Yield Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHY»), iShares U.S. IG Corporate Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIG»), iShares DEX HYBrid Bond Index Fund («XHB»), iShares S&P / TSX North American Preferred Stock Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XPF»), iShares S&P / TSX Equity Income Index Fund («XEI»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index Fund («XST»), iShares Capped Utilities Index Fund («XUT»), iShares S&P / TSX Global Base Metals Index Fund («XBM»), iShares S&P Global Healthcare Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHC»), iShares NASDAQ 100 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XQQ») and iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XEB»)(collectively, the «Funds») may or may not be suitable for all investors.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.