"Event Driven" and Statistical Arbitrage Hedge Funds Faring Poorly
Two major types of hedge fund strategies, namely event-driven (Newspeak for risk arbitrage) and statistical arbitrage (typically, very high volume trading to capture and correct anomalies in prices relationships in various markets, such as among stocks bonds, or derivatives, or across markets) are having trouble. It isn’t yet clear how far reaching these problems are. […]
Read more...