Investment Committee (IC) meetings are both an opportunity and a pain for Chief Investment Officers (CIOs). This is where a brilliant idea may fall flat on its face due to insufficient clarity or visual perspective. With fast and interactive Proforma Building tool the CIO is no longer pitching a “cool” but abstract idea, but rather presenting a path to portfolio *evolution* with visuals and stats supporting it.

The typical question investors ask a fund manager is “What is the track record?” And while it is definitely important, looking at absolute returns of a single fund can be dangerously misleading.

The rise in public equity prices during the ZIRP and quantitative easing years was mirrored in the private equity space as an abundance of cheap debt armed an ever increasing number of buyout funds with the ammunition they needed to complete deals.

Are hedge funds good at picking their favorite long positions? We review GVIP ETF performance for 2022 to find the answer.

Can long-only strategies based on 13-F filings outperform the market? We follow up with tracking GS GVIP ETF over recent months

Can long-only strategies based on 13-F filings outperform the market? We take another look after our original analysis in November 2021.

Can long-only strategies based on 13-F filings outperform the market? We are taking a closer look at one ETF that tries to do just that.

2021 is a year when many people have begun to enjoy a return to something like ‘normal’ life after the difficulties of 2020. And it certainly appeared like that for a while in financial markets – until recently – as many sectors bounced back and hedge fund strategies did well.

The equities keep charging forward as the first half of 2021 comes to a close, and hedge fund strategies performance in H1 seems to correlate to the amount of equites they hold. However, on Risk-Adjusted basis the picture is not so obvious.

The Crypto funds have experienced an explosion in performance and AUM in 2020. They appear to continue the winning trend into Q1 of 2021.