A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors that undertakes a wider range of investment and trading activities than long-only investment funds, and that, in general, pays a performance fee to its investment manager. A hedge fund is a fund that can take both long and short positions, use arbitrage, buy and sell undervalued securities, trade options … [Read more...]
What is Dash to Trash ?
Dash to Trash refers to a situation when the investors trading in the market flock to a class of securities or other assets, bidding up prices to beyond what can be justified by valuation or other fundamental measures. While it is known that the dash-to-trash effect can occur within any type of security, the phrase is typically used to describe the low-quality stocks and … [Read more...]
Quant Fund & Quant Strategies
What is a Quant Fund? An investment fund that selects securities based on quantitative analysis. In such funds, the managers build computer-based models to determine whether or not an investment is attractive. In a pure "quant shop" the final decision to buy or sell is made by the model. However, there is a middle ground where the fund manager will use human judgment in … [Read more...]
What to buy ? ETF’s or Stocks
Should You Buy Stock Or An ETF? Whether to buy the stocks or the ETF? This is one question that Investors encounter every day. Many are under the impression that if you buy an ETF, you are stuck with receiving the average return in the sector. This is not necessarily true, depending on the characteristics of the sector. Making this choice is no different from any investment … [Read more...]
FAFSA 2009: Student Financial Aid Changes
If you filled out an online FAFSA before 2009, you probably noticed the process took about an hour. You were inundated with questions that didn't apply to you. This is because the online application didn't interact with your responses to the questions - at all. The old FAFSA was basically the full paper form online. You had to scroll through the full application to find the … [Read more...]