Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
Long-short strategies fail to make money as managers are simultaneously buying and selling beta.
One example is the large increase in long-short mutual funds over the past few years.
The Alternative Strategies Fund focuses on a stock hedging asset class, or a stock long-short.
So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
Eventually you will be able to create your own motifs, including long-short portfolios.
Our commodity long-short strategy was actually positive 40% in 2008 when the rest of the commodity market was minus 35%.
The long-short category of mutual funds performed even worse, returning just 10.5%.
Global currency, currency long-short, different currencies around the world-they can grow too.
Although we have among the largest hedge fund complexes in the industry, we still see opportunities in, for example, long-short funds or special situations funds.
There also are funds that offer one-stop-shop exposure to a variety of strategies traditionally associated with hedge funds, including long-short equity or nontraditional bond strategies.
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But back in 2003, the average long-short fund gained only 8.5%.
The universe of hedge fund asset classes is very deep and includes convertible arbitrage, distressed mortgage, long-short equity and global macro, among many other complex strategies.
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Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.
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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.
Commodity long-short-most investors have commodity long-only.
Investors had become convinced that long- and short-term rates would continue to fall, and were suddenly proved wrong.
An automatically generated list called Losing Touch points out long- or short-term relationships that have started to fade.
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Treatment often includes inhaled corticosteroids, to reduce inflammation, and long- and short-acting beta agonists like albuterol, to relax airway muscles.
Long- and short-stemmed flowers alike had snagged on the drapes.
The long- and short-term initiatives around this partnership is that they can also help Church leaders, politicians and educators to understand this cultural paradigm shift, regenerative medicine, that is arising in medicine.
On the merger front, AirTran Holdings, the parent of AirTran Airlines, which serves long- and short-haul markets, primarily in the eastern U.S., announced in December a hostile takeover for another low-cost carrier, Midwest Air Group.
Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.
On the merger front, AirTran Holdings (nyse: AAI - news - people ), the parent of AirTran Airlines, which serves long- and short-haul markets, primarily in the eastern U.S., announced in December a hostile takeover for another low-cost carrier, Midwest Air Group (amex: MEH - news - people ).
"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms, " he said.
The form will also be used to report whether gain or loss from a sale is long-term or short-term, a factor that affects tax treatment.
Both long-term and short-term exposures can result in serious health impacts.
After the markets closed Monday, Fitch Ratings downgraded AIG's long-term and short-term issuer default rating, as well as its senior unsecured debt and commercial paper program ratings.
The Cooney Center report distinguishes between long-form and short-form games.
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