AQR is a hedge fund located in Greenwich, Connecticut, that is contemplating offering a wholly new line of merchandise to retail investors, specifically the ability to invest in the cost phenomenon known as impetus. There's a large body of empirical evidence supporting momentum across numerous asset categories and nations. Yet, up until this point, momentum was a strategy thus not an available investment strategy to most individual investors, and used almost completely by hedge funds.
This case highlights the issues in implementing this "mutual fund-itizing" of a hedge fund product, together with the challenges that the open-end and regulatory features that a mutual fund introduces to various triumphant strategies realized in other pretexts. In further addition, it gives the students the capacity to estimate and construe a range of horizons of correlations between loads of popular investment approaches using long time-series data and considering the possible complementarities of strategies from a portfolio building circumstance.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 23, 2010 PRODUCT #: 214C25-PDF-CHI
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