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Hard Lessons from an ETF Entrepreneur
I’ve learned some very hard lessons about building a business around ETFs. I’m sharing them here so that they can help other ETF innovators.
I’ve learned some very hard lessons about building a business around ETFs. I’m sharing them here so that they can help other ETF innovators.
In October 2017, the Wall Street Journal published an article largely critical of Morningstar’s Star-Rating system. The now infamous piece, “The Morningstar Mirage”, was well researched and written by seasoned journalists Kirsten Grind, Tom McGinty and Sarah Krouse. Its main... more »
If you’re a market index investor retiring in the next 10 to 15 years, you could be in trouble and not even know it. If you can solve this riddle, you’ll understand why: Two investors; A and B Both begin... more »
This article focuses on the AlphaClone Hedge Fund Masters Index in the context of constructing the optimum portfolio. When building an optimum portfolio, the objective is to figure out the portfolio weights across different asset classes that achieve a specific... more »
Moneyball for Hedge Funds If you’ve followed us for any amount of time, you know that our Clone Score methodology is at the heart of our manager selection process. The best analogy for our process to think about a manager’s score... more »
We take a definitive look at hedge fund holding periods. We analyze holding periods for all Form 13F disclosed securities as well as for those held with high conviction. We also look at whether the length of a manager’s holding... more »
The active vs passive debate continues unabated in the financial media. Passive strategies continue to accumulate assets while active strategies lose them causing many to proclaim that active investing is dead. Let’s take a step back and try to separate... more »
The very nature of making investment decisions is difficult – an investor can only evaluate an investment based on historical returns and/or credibility. Yet both of these attributes are poor predictors of what the investor is actually paying for –... more »
AlphaClone CEO, Maz Jadallah, participates in roundtable discussion on “smart beta” startegies hosted by Barron’s.
We’re not really seeing the results we want from our hedge fund allocations, we’re going to focus on accessing active managers through cheaper vehicles. We’re not really seeing the results we want with our active manager allocations, we’re going to... more »
Earlier this year, during an interview on CNBC, Warren Buffett commented on how he would like his wife and her trustees to invest the cash she would inherit upon his death. The advice made waves because it was shockingly simple:... more »
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