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Publication Name: All About Alpha

Brief description: A finance blog about hedge funds, portable alpha and alternative investing

Publication URL: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/

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URL: http://allaboutalpha.com

Joined: November 3rd, 2011

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All About Alpha wrote a new blog post titled If the CFO Says He Feels ‘Fantastic,’ Sell Short

Investors want to know whether the executives are speaking deceptively well before the restatement is filed. In order to help with that goal, Larcker and Zakolyukina in the paper, “Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls,” have analyzed the transcripts, focusing especially on CEOs and CFOs because they are “the most likely executives to have knowledge about financial statement manipulation.”
(yesterday)

All About Alpha wrote a new blog post titled Don’t Fear Hedge Funds or Directional Strategies

Hedge funds as a class have performed quite well since 1994. As one might expect, distinct hedge fund strategies yield distinct results. Long/short equity strategies (or “equity hedge” strategies as KPMG calls them) have done best. Generally speaking, hedge funds willing to make directional bets have outperformed those that stick to relative-value plays.
(2 days ago)

All About Alpha wrote a new blog post titled Discussing Passports and UCITS Wrappers with John Adams

The member states of the EU are expected to enact the pertinent legislation in July 2013. Then a London-based fund will be able to market in Italy by virtue of an intra-EU “passport,” although a hedge fund firm in New York or Hong Kong won’t be able to get such a passport for some time to come. The outsiders will have to work country-by-country, and this may well put them at a serious competitive disadvantage.
(3 days ago)

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AllAboutAlpha.com is an online strategic information service for the asset management and hedge fund industries.  Like a research firm, we immerse ourselves in the latest academic research, scan the headlines and provide subscribers with what we think they need to know as the asset management industry enters a period of rapid evolution.  Like a “blog,” we deliver those insights in a manner that is easy to digest, frequent and tempered by our own unique view of the world.

AllAboutAlpha.com is not a media firm or general hedge fund portal.  Instead, we partner with these companies to shine a focused light on issues of a strategic importance to asset managers.  We do not cover hedge fund launches, “people-moves,” or the performance or profiles of specific funds.   We do not provide information on how to launch a hedge fund, legal or operational issues, or the investment outlook for particular strategies.  We focus solely on uncovering the common denominators that tie together seemingly disparate developments to help our subscribers anticipate and manage change.

With nearly 1,000 archived articles and entries, and new material added daily, AllAboutAlpha.com is research tool designed to be an “early warning” system for asset managers, service providers, and investors.  Whether you simply visit on a daily basis to read our latest thoughts, or whether you subscribe to our Knowledge Base of archives and “research dossiers” as you create reports, pitches, internal research materials or publications, we hope you find AllAboutAlpha.com a valuable addition to your other research sources.