Sentence examples for hedge fund performance from inspiring English sources

Weak hedge fund performance is hardly Cooper Union's only financial problem.

It's a tough sell, considering hedge fund performance has routinely underperformed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index in recent years.

The effort - called the "aberrational performance inquiry" - uses what the S.E.C. calls proprietary risk analytics to evaluate hedge fund performance.

One simple and effective measure of hedge fund performance is to look at returns of funds of hedge funds.

Standard & Poor's joins a growing list of companies that want to become the authority on hedge fund performance.

Even professionals have a problem in evaluating hedge fund performance, because distinguishing skill from luck and excessive risk-taking is extremely difficult.

It also plays havoc with any indices used to track hedge-fund performance.

Nor does he analyse how hedge-fund performance compares with other asset classes, such as private equity.

And financially, "this fund was an outlier on any chart you can imagine," says Michael Markov of Markov Processes, who has developed software to analyse hedge-fund performance.

High-end developers are betting that the current streak of job growth, record Wall Street bonuses and high hedge-fund performance will continue well into 2009.

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