This harkens back to the old joke about long-only money managers always seeing bull markets.
Putting hedge-fund products under the same roof as conventional, long-only offerings can create conflicts.
Being a long-only hedge fund without any hedges makes it tough in that environment.
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The fund was ranked No. 1 for its long-only macro strategy by BarclayHedge in Iowa this month.
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Long-only money managers like Morgan Guaranty Trust destroyed themselves holding "one-decision" growth stocks like Xerox and Polaroid.
There also seems to be a growing belief that there is more to investment than long-only management.
The cornerstone investors include insurance companies, long-only funds and hedge funds, the people said, but declined to name them.
Utilities, meanwhile, are the most underweight sector among hedge funds and long-only investors.
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It is also the sector that has seen the biggest increase in weighting by long-only investors over the past three months, UBS said.
Long-only means that you only make money when markets go up.
Paul Smith of TripleA Partners, which advises foreigners on investing in Asian funds, says there is twice as much money looking for long-only funds as for hedge funds.
The Compass EMP Fund has three mutual funds, but talking about the Alternative Strategies Fund in particular, there are no traditional-what we call long-only-stock or bonds in the portfolio.
Similarly, a fund-management house could be embarrassed if shares in its long-only, retail business were being torpedoed by hedge funds shorting them on behalf of the fund firm's rich customers.
While some hedge funds are long-only and others are long-short, OpenGamma has developed software for very quant-driven funds whose strategies use the application of risk to drive their returns, added Wylie.
The logic behind long-only equity, that risky assets deserve higher growth potential and straight market exposure will provide acceptable returns, works well in the ivory tower of modern portfolio theory, but often takes decades to deliver results in practice.
The reason it puts some store in the data is that it says the last two times long-only buying was at these levels, March 2009 and July 2009, the MSCI Europe index performed very strongly over the next three months.
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Commodity long-short-most investors have commodity long-only.
Still, UBS says the data, which is presented on a four-week average, miss a key point: Two weeks ago, based on its client data, UBS says it saw the biggest weekly net selling by hedge funds and long-only funds in this correction.
South Africa's apartheid government had designated the ANC a terrorist organization during the group's decades-long struggle against whites-only rule.
Maximizing returns long-term may only be the stated goal of foreign governments in creating SWFs.
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Higdon was guilty of weakly heading a long free-kick only as far as the edge of his own area.
Since the long-term deficit only becomes worse, Republicans will continue to have ample opportunity to pressure Democrats into accepting spending cuts and keep them on the defense with regards to new government programs.
Shaheen says the Mecca talks will produce a long-term truce only if Hamas makes a clear ideological and financial break with its main sponsor, Iran, and embraces the two-state solution political platform of Fatah.
The physicist Edward Teller estimated that a constellation of satellites providing continuous atmospheric measurements over a one square kilometer grid worldwide, which is currently cost-prohibitive, would only improve long-range forecasts from the current five days to approximately 14 days.
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However, these targets - all be they only long term markers - show that Ministers are prepared to provide criteria by which they can be judged in their attempts.
Is it against a nuclear-armed adversary or one with only limited long-range strike capabilities?
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