Sentences with phrase «percent as a hedge»

Probably around 20 percent as a hedge against any more serious financial or social crises.

Not exact matches

Hedge funds and private equity funds saw the potential to corner this market and began offering much higher loan to value ratios, meaning they would lend as much as 80 percent of the value of the property.

NEW YORK, March 6 - Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, has cut staff by more than 30 percent in one of its stock - picking units in what several people with direct knowledge of the layoffs described as a surprise move.

The $ 3 trillion hedge fund industry, which has been struggling to outperform stock and bond markets, could see assets shrink by as much as 30 percent in the next three years if performance continues to disappoint, according to a report this month from Boston Consulting Group.

It is designed as a long / short hedge fund substitute with a fee structure of a flat 1 percent.

Last week, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, said it was time for investors to put between 5 and 10 percent of their portfolio in gold as a precaution against global and domestic geopolitical risks.

Investors are exiting as the U.S. government intensifies its probe of insider trading at the Stamford, Connecticut - based firm, once one of the most successful in the hedge - fund industry, with returns averaging 25 percent since 1992.

This is expressed most directly in paragraph 156 of the complaint which argues that a «two percent annual flat fee on assets under management [as charged by an actively managed hedge fund seeking superior returns]... is not justified in the defined contribution plan context.»

The higher - than - average annual fees SAC charges clients — as much as 3 percent of assets and 50 percent of profits — cover the expenses of running his hedge funds, including employee compensation, and generate profits for Cohen as the principal owner.

Most hedge fund managers charge a 2 percent management fee and 20 percent of the profit earned, known as «2 and 20.»

Still, given the market's rich valuation, one would have expected in advance that the Fund would be largely hedged, and to that extent, the Fund's hedging approach performed in 2006 basically as expected - it muted the impact of market fluctuations on the Fund, and contributed several percent in «implied» interest.

Elliott Management has taken a 12 percent stake in Travelport Worldwide, the hedge fund said in a filing on March 26, and may push for a sale of the travel industry e-commerce company that could include Elliott as a buyer.

Jeremy Millar, founder and managing partner at Ledger Partners in London, estimated that 50 to 90 percent of bitcoin's current market cap is held by near - institutional money such as individuals at hedge funds and family offices.

Bloomberg, who gave away more than $ 250 million last year, called the legislative plan to halve the charitable deduction for people worth $ 10 million or more from 50 percent to 25 percent «is as crazy as the hedge funds thing,» adding: «We need the private sector to be more generous.»

Cliff Asness, co-founder and chief investment officer of AQR Capital Management, issued a torrent of Tweets decrying Cuomo's proposed income tax on hedge fund managers as «a 19 percent surcharge on investment businesses» and the governor as a «flat out lying demagogue without even the rhetoric talent of his father.»

Cuomo is running on the Democratic and Working Families lines, as well as the Women's Equality Party line, newly created and heavily promoted by the governor in part as a hedge against the W.F.P. And Howie Hawkins, running on the Green Party line, is polling around 9 percent.

-LSB-...] In Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance, authors Brav, Jiang, Thomas and Partnoy found that the «market reacts favorably to hedge fund activism, as the abnormal return upon announcement of potential activism is in the range of [7 %] seven percent, with no return reversal during the subsequent year.&rHedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance, authors Brav, Jiang, Thomas and Partnoy found that the «market reacts favorably to hedge fund activism, as the abnormal return upon announcement of potential activism is in the range of [7 %] seven percent, with no return reversal during the subsequent year.&rhedge fund activism, as the abnormal return upon announcement of potential activism is in the range of [7 %] seven percent, with no return reversal during the subsequent year.»

Fees on hedge funds can be quite high relative to other investments.Usuallytwo fees are charged; one is based on the total assets and can be in the 1 to 3 percent range, and the other is a performance fee that is based on all capital gains earned by the fund and can reach as high as 40 percent.

BOSTON, Nov 30 (Reuters)- Hedge fund mogul David Einhorn has lost 20.6 percent this year as a bet on solar company SunEdison cratered in November, extending losses of his Greenlight Capital and putting it on course for its first losing year since the financial crisis.

This issue of Barron's carries a brief article on activist hedge funds and makes mention of activist Jeff Ubben and his firm ValueAct Capital, which is regarded as one of the elite activist funds because it has averaged gains of 144 percent in companies where they filed 13D forms.

As recently as October 2007, Barron's magazine ranked Highland CDO Opportunity third among the top 50 hedge funds, with an average annual return of 44.12 percent during the three - year period ended that JunAs recently as October 2007, Barron's magazine ranked Highland CDO Opportunity third among the top 50 hedge funds, with an average annual return of 44.12 percent during the three - year period ended that Junas October 2007, Barron's magazine ranked Highland CDO Opportunity third among the top 50 hedge funds, with an average annual return of 44.12 percent during the three - year period ended that June.

Taking 2 percent of assets off the top, as most did, meant the hedge - fund manager got paid simply for amassing vast amounts of other people's money.

Some banks offer art - secured loans at interest rates of only 2.5 or 3 percent to ultra-high-net-worth collectors, such as hedge - fund manager Steven A. Cohen, whose art collection is reportedly worth an estimated $ 1 billion.

Was moca's board, recently beefed up with the addition of Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel and Wall Street hedge - fund giant Steven Cohen, really behind him 100 percent, as its co-chair Maria Arena Bell, who was at the gala, told everyone?

That activism keeps ramping up: At 350.org, we're rolling out a vast Fossil Free campaign across the globe this winter, joining organizations like the Sierra Club to pressure governments to sign up for 100 percent renewable energy, blocking new pipelines and frack wells as fast as the industry can propose them, and calling out the banks and hedge funds that underwrite the past.

As reported this week, legendary hedge fund manager Bill Miller, chairman and chief investment officer at Miller Valued Partners, said that his MVP1 fund now puts nearly 50 percent of the weight on bitcoin and bitcoin cash - a notable increase from just 5 percent in bitcoin when he first got involved with cryptocurrency.

While investors are cautiously monitoring Bitcoin's fundamental scalability issues, those in the know are hedging their bets into up - and - coming cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin, which has increased over 200 percent in less than five days.

But since inflation is expected to remain at about 2 percent per year for the foreseeable future, commercial real estate investors are advised to look at the overall performance of a property or pooled investment fund rather than its utility as an inflation hedge, says Martha Peyton, CRE, managing director and head of Global Real Estate Strategy and Research at TIAA - CREF in Newport Beach, Calif..

Real estate still offers predictable cash flows, tax benefits and a hedge against inflation, and thus remains highly appealing; most HNW's and family offices are targeting as much as 10 to 15 percent of their investment portfolio to real estate.

According to research by TIAA - CREF Global Real Estate that compares how well various asset types perform as inflation hedges, among 5,000 portfolios with five - year holding periods, but with random starting years from 1978 to 2011, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Property Index's total returns for commercial real estate beat inflation 84 percent of the time, and by a huge 698 basis points, on average.