Arbitrage
Why hair care is better than quantitative analysis. When I first heard the term statistical arbitrage, I thought it was a joke. The kind...
Christian Armbruester
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Something Else
Why alternatives to equites and bonds are hard to find. Nothing beats the S&P 500 at a time when central banks have pumped trillions and...
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Christian Armbruester
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Lessons in Love
What are the big takeaways from a very strange year in the markets? It has been more than a year now that COVID-19 has taken over the...
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Christian Armbruester
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
The Big Short
How Reddit and Robinhood became like a swarm of locusts. The whole idea of speculating on prices falling seems wrong from the outset....
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Christian Armbruester
- Feb 11, 2019
- 3 min
Readers' Request: Hedge Funds Part II
We received a lot of feedback on our recent post – Hedge Funds, Alpha and The Holy Grail. Thank you very much to all our avid readers and...
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Christian Armbruester
- Jan 14, 2019
- 2 min
Hedge Funds, Alpha and The Holy Grail
It is amazing how much conjecture the term “hedge fund” can evoke. Nowhere else in finance is there more confusion and debate about what...
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Christian Armbruester
- Feb 5, 2018
- 2 min
What Actually is Alpha? Revisited
Our astute readers will remember that we wrote on the subject of alpha a few months ago What Actually is Alpha? But as we wake up to a...
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Christian Armbruester
- Oct 9, 2017
- 3 min
What Actually is Alpha?
I first came across the term ‘alpha’ in the mid-nineties. A trader from one of the convertibles trading teams told me he was very...
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