Friday, April 5, 2013

Investors nix "black swan" hedge funds




From Reuters UK: Hedge funds set up to profit from huge market slides are falling out of favour, signalling that investors are increasingly confident leading central banks can avert the kind of meltdown that followed the Lehman Brothers' collapse.

Investors are pulling out of such "tail risk" funds although economic and geopolitical bolts continue to strike from the blue, be they the messy bailout of Cyprus which has shown how the euro zone crisis can flare up when markets least expect it, or the U.S. stand-off with North Korea….

More?  Check out http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/04/uk-tailrisk-hedgefunds-idUKBRE9330T820130404

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