West Loop Financial LLCThe Sad Truth About Hedge Funds – West Loop Financial LLC https://www.westloopfinancial.com Evolutionize Site Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 The Sad Truth About Hedge Funds https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/01/22/the-sad-truth-about-hedge-funds/ https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/01/22/the-sad-truth-about-hedge-funds/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:35:07 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=619 There are many well-documented problems with investing in hedge funds, and it's hard to know where to start in pointing them out.

Among them are: lack of liquidity; lack of transparency; loss of control over the asset allocation and thus risk of the portfolio; non-normal distribution of returns (they exhibit excess kurtosis and negative skewness); and they have a high risk of dying (12.3 percent per year from 1994 through 2008).

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Among them are: lack of liquidity; lack of transparency; loss of control over the asset allocation and thus risk of the portfolio; non-normal distribution of returns (they exhibit excess kurtosis and negative skewness); and they have a high risk of dying (12.3 percent per year from 1994 through 2008).

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