Hedge funds don’t make investors rich, they preserve the wealth of the investor who is already rich. Most hedge funds are aware of and carefully manage downside risk and volatility. Long only mutual funds have benchmarks to which they tend to cling. A volatile benchmark can seriously injure an investor’s portfolio.

The Wide Angle: Customers of a company should want to see the employees of the said company buy their own products and services and own shares in the company or at least have a direct link between their compensation and the quality of the products and the satisfaction of the customers. As an employee of

I discourage investors from investing in anything they don’t understand. Hedge funds are fairly complex as far as investment strategies go, so I often discourage investors from investing in them unless they are sufficiently knowledgeable. If they want to invest in hedge funds, I tend to steer them towards funds of hedge funds or asset

The Parallel Stages of the Credit Bubble 2001 versus 2009

I’ve not taken my own advice lately and have been too bearish on risk assets. Entirely my fault for ascribing more weight to fundamentals than I normally do.