Beta Equity Events 
Global Finance
JUNE 9, 2025
In 2004, it hosted nearly 15,000 visitors across four hackathons and more than 100 community events. Its DAX[AI]ON event last year brought together industry leaders, innovators, and experts to explore the transformative potential of Gen AI in the financial sector. DAX fosters ties among the tech community.
Brian DeChesare
MAY 24, 2023
“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. Part of the issue is that many different strategies fall within the “event-driven” category: merger arbitrage , activist investing , distressed investing, special situations, and more. By contrast, an event-driven fund would never bet on such a situation.
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Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
At the risk of provoking the ire of those who dislike portfolio theory, the most widely model for risk, in practice, is the capital asset pricing model, and beta is the relative risk measure. At the start of 2022, the ten sectors (US) with the highest and lowest relative risk (unlettered betas), are shown below.
Brian DeChesare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Ask anyone interested in distressed debt hedge funds for “the pitch,” and they’ll probably mention one of the following: “It’s like long/short equity or credit , but more interesting!” Distressed investing offers equity-like returns with lower risk.” Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.”
Equidam
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
As venture studios “earn” their equity via services and support provided, starting out with a large amount of relatively ‘cheap’ ownership (15-80%, depending on the model), it can make sense to cash-in sooner and reinvest the capital in new ventures.
Brian DeChesare
JULY 19, 2023
If you’re interested in long-only hedge funds, you should ask a different set of questions: Do these long-only funds offer any advantages over strategies like long/short equity ? Theoretically, an equity fund could be long-only and manage its risk by buying stocks that are negatively correlated with the market.
Benzinga
MAY 11, 2022
Several demonstrations of the Guardian XT robot Beta units to partners and customers have taken place in Sarcos' facility since the start of the year and the company continues to expect that Guardian XT robot Beta units will be placed with customers for field tests in mid-2022. million for 2022. ET on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
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