One of the biggest challenges facing the hedge fund industry over the last several years is generating alpha. During a panel at Sohn San Francisco, Raj Moorthy of Advantage Alpha Capital Partners shared data from Cambridge Associates and said the numbers show that the hedge fund industry hasn’t generated alpha in over eight years. He also said that alpha generation in the long/ short industry has eroded significantly over the last 20 years.
Advantage Alpha Capital: On How Hedge Funds Can Generate Alpha Again
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.