Industry Links

There are a number of highly useful general pages on how to measure hedge fund performance, advanced metrics and the meaning of different statistics. Both hedge fund databases and links are listed here.

Not all of the sources are independent, some are more academic than others but may also be sponsored by the Hedge Fund industry.

Hedge Fund Index

  • HedgeIndex.com - This is an asset weighted hedge fund index, containing both investable and non-investable hedge fund index group. The site is driven by Tremont / Credit Suisse.
  • Barclaygrp.com - Barclay group provides free hedge fund indices, not investable. Historically a focus on Managed Futures but the company has evolved to cover other strategies as well.
  • HedgeNordic.com - A Nordic Hedge Fund index, partly driven by a Fund-of-Funds.

Academic Resources

  • Edhec-risk.com Edhec offers a good page with a lot of academic research, industry reports. The site does also maintain a good hedge fund index (with lags due the construction method) 
  • Cisdm.org A classic research page, slightly focused on Managed Futures. CISDM stands for the Center for International Securities and Derivates Markets and seeks to enhance the understanding of the filed of alternative investing. Maintains a set of indices and a hedge fund database (on a subscriber basis).
  • AIRC / CASS The alternative Investment research center at the Cass Business School contains most of Harry M. Kat's paper on hedge funds as well as to some of his disciples. 

Industry News

  • Hedgeweek is a free hedge fund new resource. Requires a registration in order to get access to news.
  • Albourne Village - perhaps the number one source for hedge fund news and gossips. Interested users can register and subscribe daily news.
  • Hedgefund.net Supplying news to the hedge fund community as well as maintaining the Tuna indices.