HEDGE DOUGH NO GO FUND $$ DRY UP -- NY Post

I just loved that headline. Whatever happens to the NY Times, there will always be a Post. The margin terms, they-are-a-changing. From one extreme to the other, it seems. Is it possible that the market can sort of fix its' own problems, without the politicians riding in like the Texas Rangers?


HEDGE DOUGH NO GO FUND $$ DRY UP | By RODDY BOYD | Business News | Financial | Business and Money

Index Universe: Hedge Fund Index Debacle

Good discussion of the problem of hedge fund indexes and their "numbers". Failures such as the most recent, not including the Bear Stearns funds' numbers, which were sort of, well, you know, hard to put together, is not the the only problem. The author, Matthew Hougan suggests that even when there is no gross breakdown in such an index, the performance numbers are not going to be exactly "real-time" in nature, but have something of a "serial correlation" issue. As my daughter might perhaps say, "Ewww".


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