MPI Research Corner

Progenitors of risk parity and TIPS, facilitators of the Chicken McNugget, and managers of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associate’s now $65bn All Weather Fund has become legend amongst institutional investors (to say nothing of other asset management firms) looking to weatherproof their beta and modernize their portfolios. Predicated on Ray Dalio, Bob Prince [...]

While attention has focused on bond fund managers who benefited from the Fed’s much anticipated announcement of the next phase of Quantitative Easing (QE3) on Thursday September 13th, what happened with equity fund managers? Hindsight may be 20/20, but it is no secret that equity markets have responded ebulliently to past announcements; after all, money [...]

Can a fund whose alpha is positive significantly underperform the market? Yes, it can. This is a common question we receive during our clients’ Quarterly reporting, so we felt it worth addressing this phenomena – and taking a quick look at funds that gain this distinction. There is a common misperception that alpha means outperformance [...]

With the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund recently taking home the Hedge Funds Review Americas Awards for “Best long/short equity hedge fund” and “single manager fund of the year”, we thought it would be worth taking another gander at RIEF to explore the fund’s performance generation. [1] We figured RIEF might be doing something different since [...]

Bridgewater Pure Alpha II Fund, the flagship fund of Bridgewater Associates – the world’s largest alternative investment management firm – has generated outstanding returns in the last twenty years with especially impressive performance since the Fall of 2008. Using MPI’s new Factor Search™ application, MPI’s endeavor is to capture dynamic betas embedded in Bridgewater fund’s [...]