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Christian Armbruester

Sep 27, 2021

Arbitrage

Why hair care is better than quantitative analysis. When I first heard the term statistical arbitrage, I thought it was a joke. The kind...

Christian Armbruester

Sep 13, 2021

Something Else

Why alternatives to equites and bonds are hard to find. Nothing beats the S&P 500 at a time when central banks have pumped trillions and...

Christian Armbruester

Apr 12, 2021

Lessons in Love

What are the big takeaways from a very strange year in the markets? It has been more than a year now that COVID-19 has taken over the...

Christian Armbruester

Feb 1, 2021

The Big Short

How Reddit and Robinhood became like a swarm of locusts. The whole idea of speculating on prices falling seems wrong from the outset....

Christian Armbruester

Feb 11, 2019

Readers' Request: Hedge Funds Part II

We received a lot of feedback on our recent post – Hedge Funds, Alpha and The Holy Grail. Thank you very much to all our avid readers and...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 14, 2019

Hedge Funds, Alpha and The Holy Grail

It is amazing how much conjecture the term “hedge fund” can evoke. Nowhere else in finance is there more confusion and debate about what...

Christian Armbruester

Feb 5, 2018

What Actually is Alpha? Revisited

Our astute readers will remember that we wrote on the subject of alpha a few months ago What Actually is Alpha? But as we wake up to a...

Christian Armbruester

Oct 9, 2017

What Actually is Alpha?

I first came across the term ‘alpha’ in the mid-nineties. A trader from one of the convertibles trading teams told me he was very...